Author: Lexy Perez / Source: The Hollywood Reporter
“I’m really ashamed and embarrassed with the things I said. I can’t turn back time but if I could, I would,” the actress says in a candid interview for Paper Magazine’s cover story.
Times have changed for Amanda Bynes who, after spending the last several years retiring from acting and avoiding the spotlight, has opened up to Paper Magazine for its latest cover story about her drug use and feeling ready to return to the spotlight after enduring a “dark, sad world.
”Though the actress hopes to design a clothing line — she is currently enrolled at Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising to receive her Associate’s of Art degree in Merchandise Product Development — Bynes confirmed that she wants to “get back into acting first” after enduring years of drug abuse.
Bynes reflected on when she first started using drugs, recalling smoking marijuana at the age of 16: “Even though everyone thought I was the ‘good girl,’ I did smoke marijuana from that point on.” She also explained that despite smoking, she “didn’t get addicted” and “wasn’t abusing it.”
Bynes revealed that she later progressed to trying harder drugs such as MDMA, cocaine and ecstasy: “[I tried] cocaine three times but I never got high from cocaine. I never liked it. It was never my drug of choice.” It wasn’t until she tried Adderall that the actress said it became a frequent routine: “I definitely abused Adderall.”
Bynes said that when she was filming the 2007 musical Hairspray — which she described as “the most amazing experience I’ve had on set” — she remembered “reading an article in a magazine that [called Adderall] ‘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.'” The actress admitted that she was able to get a prescription after going “to a psychiatrist and faking the symptoms of ADD (attention deficit disorder).”Bynes’ Adderall abuse continued to grow worse while filming the 2010 film Hall Pass. “When I was doing Hall Pass, I remember being in the…
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