Author: Allyson Chiu / Source: NDTV.com
Amanda Bynes was last seen in Easy A.(Image courtesy: amanda bynes)
Gracing the cover of Paper magazine’s 2018 “Break the Internet” issue is a fresh-faced Amanda Bynes. Dressed in a plaid suit jacket over a simple white button-down blouse and blue jeans with her honey-blond hair falling casually over one shoulder, the 32-year-old former Nickelodeon star exudes confidence – looking every bit like the successful Hollywood starlet fans hoped she would become.
It’s been almost a decade since the actress announced her retirement, and those years have been marred by a number of arrests and a public breakdown complete with bizarre Twitter rants, bad wigs and even a brief stint in a psychiatric hospital.
Now Amanda Bynes, who is pursuing a degree at the Fashion Institute of Design And Merchandising, is determined to show that she’s ready to make a comeback, reaffirming her goal to return to acting. She opened up about her tumultuous past to Paper’s executive editor, Abby Schreiber, for the magazine’s cover story, published Monday. Amanda chronicled struggling with her appearance and substance abuse – “It became a really dark, sad world for me,” she said – and repeatedly expressed remorse for the erratic behavior that fueled her swift descent from perfect child star to tabloid fodder.
“I have no fear of the future,” she said. “I’ve been through the worst and came out the other end and survived it, so I just feel like it’s only up from here.”
Amanda Bynes, long praised for her comedic timing, skyrocketed to fame in the mid-’90s after earning a spot on Nickelodeon’s popular show All That, a Saturday Night Live -inspired comedy sketch series for young people.
Just three years later, at age 13, she was the star of her own wildly successful show, aptly titled, The Amanda Show. She went on to launch a film career, starring alongside the likes of Frankie Muniz (Big Fat Liar), Colin Firth (What A Girl Wants), Channing Tatum (She’s The Man), and John Travolta and Zac Efron (Hairspray).Described by her brother in a 1999 Los Angeles Times article as “an ordinary kid,” She was by all accounts a wholesome child, who, despite her fame, never adopted a “Hollywood attitude.”
Bynes told Paper that the characterization wasn’t entirely true.
“I started smoking marijuana when I was 16,” said Amanda, who has now been sober for almost four years. “Even though everyone thought I was the ‘good girl,’ I did smoke marijuana from that point on.”
Bynes added: “I didn’t get addicted (then) and I wasn’t abusing it. And I wasn’t going out and partying or making a fool of myself … yet.”
The drug Amanda did abuse was Adderall, a stimulant commonly used to treat attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and narcolepsy. She also said she experimented with the drug MDMA (also known as molly or ecstasy) and cocaine.
Amanda said she was filming the 2007 film Hairspray when she read a magazine article touting Adderall as “the new skinny pill’ and they were talking about how women were taking it to stay thin. I was like, Well, I have to get my hands on that.”
In a 2013 tweet that has since been deleted, Amanda wrote that she had an eating disorder, which caused her to “have a hard time staying thin,” HuffPost reported.
She also told Paper that seeing herself dressed as a boy in the 2006 romantic comedy “She’s the Man,” loosely based on Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, was a “super strange and out-of-body experience” that put her “into a funk.”
“I went into a deep depression for 4-6 months because I didn’t like how I looked when I was a boy,” she said. “I’ve never told anyone that.”
After “faking the symptoms” of attention-deficit disorder to get an Adderall prescription, Amanda said, she “definitely abused” the drug.
In fact, it was the effects of Adderall that led to her abrupt departure…
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