Remember Amanda Bynes, who starred in romantic teen comedies? She didn’t have many films, but fans were sure that she would gradually make her way, perhaps try herself in other images, but her future was undoubtedly bright.
Of course, many starlets think this way, but not many of them are compared by critics to Lucille Ball, an iconic figure in television comedy. Amanda had a start that others can only dream of.
But, as often happens, something went wrong. And we even know what exactly. Today the actress is 38 years old, but her new photos make even the most devoted fans doubt – is this even her?! Shall we discuss?
A few words about how it all began to understand that everything was quite simple for Amanda Bynes. Or so it seems. In any case, perhaps such a rise can explain a lot in her future behavior.
Amanda Laura Bynes was born on April 3, 1986 in a suburb of Los Angeles. The girl’s parents did not and do not have anything to do with cinema: her father is an office manager, and her mother is a dental assistant.
The family has three children, Amanda is the youngest. Her future acting destiny was largely determined by her father’s hobbies. He loved comedy and spent many evenings in clubs where stand-up comedians performed.
For some reason, he himself did not dare to try himself in this matter. But he always hoped that one of the children would be able to realize themselves in this area – theater, cinema, comedy shows, etc. Apparently his idea of show business was somewhat naive. Otherwise, he would hardly want children to actively immerse themselves in him. Or at least kept a close eye on his youngest daughter.
The children were taken to auditions, but only Amanda made the cut. Already at the age of 7, she starred in a candy commercial, played in theatrical productions at the city theater, and even performed stand-up in clubs.
It’s hard to imagine such a number, but my imagination just doesn’t work very well in this direction. And at 10 she already got a role in the show “All Things Stuff” on the Nickelodeon channel. Here her comedic talent was noticed and at the same time she earned comparison to Lucille Ball, adored in America.
It is natural that Nickelodeon decided to continue the success and Amanda got her own show, which was called “The Amanda Show” and ran for three years. During the filming of the series and the show, Byne repeatedly received the award as the best and favorite television actress. She became the idol of teenagers who grew up with her.
As Amanda grew up, big movie directors paid attention to her. It’s probably not worth listing all the films in which she managed to star. I note that they are quite of the same type, but the period in which they came out is not so long. So far, she has been seen as a pretty, funny girl who finds herself in various funny situations.
I think you yourself know what exactly went wrong – somehow the teenager ended up with first a hooker, and then various kinds of drugs. She couldn’t refuse them. And by the age of 16, she was already addicted without the ability to refuse on her own. Although, in her own words. I was sure that she would give it all up with a snap of her fingers.
The turning point was her role in one of her most famous films, “She’s the Man.” The heroine wants to play on the football team so much that she dresses up as a guy, takes the name of her own brother and lives in his role, balancing on the edge and constantly getting into funny situations.
Let’s put aside the fact that the makeup in the film is simply killer – only a blind person could fail to understand that the guy is at least strange. But Amanda herself didn’t like her appearance. Even more, she was terrified. But not from the strange makeup, but from herself. She saw gray skin, bad hair, a strained smile. And age – it seemed to her that it was her, only 10 years older. It became scary.
o you think a girl from a good family, when she realized that something was wrong, rushed to her parents or to rehab? No, of course not. She became sad and continued moving downhill. Her last film was “Excellent Student of Easy Virtue” (2009). The actress has a small role in it.
And already in 2010, Amanda Bynes suddenly announced that she was leaving cinema. The truth only lasted a month and announced that she was returning. But it didn’t work out.
Then everything developed rapidly. Bynes began to appear frequently on television. But not in the show or series, but in the chronicle – several accidents, including while intoxicated, taking drugs right on the street, scandals with neighbors, resistance to the police.
After one of the episodes, Bynes received three years of probation, and she was also sent for a compulsory psychiatric examination. The conclusion was that she was a danger to herself and others. Guardianship was established, and Amanda herself was sent to rehab for almost a year.
She left the rehab changed. True, with the firm intention of fixing everything. There I found a young man who was also undergoing treatment. There were grandiose plans – a wedding, children. The romance lasted several years, an engagement took place, but in 2022 the guy broke the engagement, noting that living with Amanda was extremely difficult.
It was very difficult to believe that Amanda was clean. She began to experiment with her appearance in some strange way. And if weight gain can be explained by natural causes, then her strange wigs are nothing. It is clear that they were needed to disguise unsuccessful experiments with hair.
For example, Amanda decided to cut her hair super short and dye it platinum blonde. Within a day, she was dissatisfied with the result, unexpectedly learned that hair growth is a long process and decided to “grow it up instantly” – with cheap synthetic wigs that even seemed impossible to comb.
And the tattoo… Strange, as if a child drew it on his face. And if you think that Bynes regretted the tattoo and rushed to remove it as soon as possible, then no, she still wears it. Fans are sure that the actress has been diagnosed with a psychiatric disorder.
I don’t think so, because guardianship was removed from her. Although the official fan club was already ready to set up headquarters and start fighting with the slogan “Free Amanda”, as was the case with Britney Spears.
Built-in microchip
By the way, there was an incomprehensible moment when on her social networks Amanda accused her own father of violence – psychological and physical. And mom in covering up this crime. This was in 2016. But literally on the same day that she posted the accusations, Amanda retracted her words.
According to her, the reason for the nasty things addressed to her father was the microchip. But here again it was he who was to blame – he implanted it in his daughter’s brain…
And in general, on that day, posts from her poured out like from a cornucopia. Either she goes to university, then she blames her father, then she complains about her spoiled face, which needs a series of operations, then she simply worries about the future and, absolutely fantastically, a microchip.
Agree, this is strange behavior for a person who spent a year in rehab and is clean. Here either the medication continues or the disease, it seems to me.
What’s today
Everyone who sees photos of Amanda Bynes in recent years wonders what happened. There is no surprise that a young girl, who was saddled with fame and money, became addicted. There are a lot of such stories and more are being added every day. Not every psyche can cope with copper pipes.
But Amanda, and the doctors too, claim that she is clean and no longer uses drugs. So why is she acting so strange and just making fun of her appearance? She is only 38 years old, everything was still possible. But now even foreign Wikipedia calls her a former actress.
After leaving rehab, she tried to study at college to get a profession. But either it became boring or difficult – she quit studying.
The direction she chose as her future profession is beauty. Wants to be beautiful and make others so. But the photos Amanda posts are discouraging. She has a unique understanding of beauty.
Now she is studying to become a manicurist. I tried to pass the licensing exam, but failed. He writes on social networks that he will keep trying until he gets the coveted crusts. We wish you good luck.
One of the reasons why the actress could become addicted to psychoactive drugs could be what, as has now become known, was happening at Nickelodeon. This became known in 2024, when the documentary “Silence on the Playground: The Dark Side of Children’s Television” was released. The main negative character of the film is producer Dan Schneider.
It was he who was the author of the channel’s loudest hits in the late 90s and early 2000s. It was during this period that Amanda’s career began. The horror is that his team, which made various shows, turned out to be full of people who have an unhealthy attraction to children.
It was this producer and team that worked on the main shows with Bynes’s participation – “All Things Stuff” and “The Amanda Show”. True, Schneider’s main accusations are made by adult employees who worked on “The Amanda Show” as screenwriters.
He made sexist jokes, forced me to carry out rather strange tasks, and humiliated me. Many of the jokes that Schneider came up with had intimate overtones, but only the employees knew about this and remained silent for fear of losing their jobs.
But it all started out very well and the “stuff” show, consisting of comedy sketches, became mega-popular among children’s audiences.
“When you’re a kid, most of the time adults tell you to shut up. At school: be quiet. Your father is watching TV: be quiet. Even those children who seem to have freedom have lives that are largely controlled.
Therefore, in my programs I try to make sure that the children are at their best. They are the smartest in the room. They’re in charge.” – Dan Schneider
The employees Schneider recruited were periodically accused of harassment, molestation, and molestation. Three were sentenced to various terms. But Amanda Bynes is not named in the charges.
Although there is information circulating online that Bynes once created an anonymous account on Twitter (now X), where she admitted that at the age of 13 she had sexual experience with a producer and even had to have an ab*rt. I don’t know how much one can trust such outpourings made during the treatment period. If everything is as the children and employees say, Schneider must be held accountable for his actions.
Amanda is not only silent, but categorically refused to star in this film. Having said that all this is in the past, and she needs to somehow learn to live in the present and plan for the future. Well, position, of course. The only question is, if she knows about such facts, should she remain silent? But she almost doesn’t give interviews at all, realizing that it will be dismantled into atoms.
I came across the opinion of Amanda Bynes fans that Hollywood and Nickelodeon broke her. Perhaps this is true. Or did she break herself?
After all, she was not the only one who went down this path – fame and money, but not everyone decided to add drive with the help of drugs. In the meantime, she considers herself a pretty green-eyed girl who may have an acting career yet to come…
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