What Led To Amanda Bynes' Parents Putting Her In A Conservatorship

Publish date: 2024-05-08

Lynn Bynes, Amanda Bynes' mother, was granted conservatorship over the "All That" star in 2013 after Amanda set a fire in her parents' driveway and was involuntarily committed to a psychiatric hospital, per CBS News. This came after a lot of public, erratic behavior, some of which included her infamous tweets at the time. She tweeted sexual assault accusations toward her father, but revoked them, tweeting, "My dad never did any of those things. The microchip in my brain made me say those things but he's the one that ordered them to microchip me."

Other behaviors from Amanda included turning herself into a Blac China look-alike, complete with dimple piercings and a platinum blonde wig, and tweets about wanting sexual relations with Drake. She was also arrested a fair amount of times and was proving her parents' point that she was not of sound mind to make financial and other decisions for herself. As NPR reported, Amanda was 27 at the time, and her attorney, David Esquibias, said her parents felt that placing her under a conservatorship "seemed like the right thing to do at the time."

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