Amanda Bynes’ ex-fiancé shares details surrounding the actress’ psychiatric public meltdown

Amanda Bynes’ former fiancé, Paul Michael, details the events leading up to the actress’ psychiatric episode on the streets of LA.

Paul Michael and Amanda Bynes. Picture: Instagram/Amanda Bynes

Amanda Bynes had allegedly not been taking her medication prior to being placed on a psychiatric hold early on Sunday.

“She got off her meds, and she’s still off her meds,” the actress’ ex-fiancé, Paul Michael, exclusively claims to Page Six. “She’s wild.”

The exes split in July last year but were spotted out together as recently as December 2022.

Michael adds that he and Bynes are “friends now”.

Amanda Bynes and Paul Michael ended their engagement in July 2022. Picture: Instagram/Amanda Bynes

An eyewitness told TMZ on Monday that the former child star – who has bipolar disorder and has struggled with substance abuse issues in the past – was roaming the streets of Downtown Los Angeles naked when she flagged down a car and told the driver she was coming down from a psychiatric episode.

Bynes, 36, then called 911 and was taken to a nearby police station, where a mental health expert determined that she needed to be placed on a 5150 hold, according to the outlet.

The number 5150 represents the section of the Welfare and Institutions Code, which allows an adult who is experiencing a mental health crisis and causing danger to themselves or others to be involuntarily detained for a 72-hour psychiatric hospitalisation.

Bynes’ lawyer did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

In recent years, Amanda Bynes’ behaviour in public has become more erratic. Picture: Neilson Barnard/Getty Images.

The actress was under a conservatorship for eight years up until March 2022. Picture: NCP/Star Max/FilmMagic.

Nearly one year ago to the day, the Amanda Show star’s eight-year conservatorship under her mother, Lynn, was terminated after the judge overseeing the case decided the legal arrangement was “no longer required”.

At the time, the Nickelodeon alum was apparently “doing very well” and “looking forward” to moving in with Michael, who proposed in February 2020.

However, the former couple ended their engagement last year shortly after Bynes publicly accused Michael of not “taking his medications”, relapsing with “crack cocaine” and watching “mum-and-son porn”.

Amanda Bynes began her career on Nickelodeon.

She won fans over in movies such as She’s the Man. Picture: Frazer Harrison/Getty

The She’s the Man star claimed she ultimately “kicked him out of [her] house”, though she later clarified that she had actually caught Michael looking at “MILF” porn.

“She tried to kick me out, but I left to get my own place,” Michael now tells Page Six. “I moved home and established boundaries.”

He insists the What I Like About You star “lied” about her previous drug use and pornography accusations against him, claiming she “embarrassed” him in order “to keep the attention off her”.

“She acted to shame me away,” Michael says, going on to allege that Bynes “lied and cheated and had too many flings the entire time” they were together.

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