In the early 2000s, Amanda Bynes's rise to fame seemed unstoppable. She starred in All That and The Amanda Show on Nickelodeon before becoming a big screen celebrity with films like She's The Man, Big Fat Liar, and What A Girl Wants , all while maintaining a "good girl" image. But behind the scenes, Bynes, now 38, was struggling with the pressure of fame, then began to unravel when dealing with drug abuse and body dysmorphia.
In 2010, she decided to permanently quit acting altogether. Since her departure from the big screen, Bynes has had a lot of ups and downs. Here is where she is now and what she has been up to over the years.
Why Amanda Bynes left acting behind While Bynes was excelling on-screen at Nickelodeon, horror stories of strange and inappropriate behavior from showrunner Dan Schneider have since surfaced. Despite not saying anything bad about Schneider, the effects of Bynes' childhood fame did not remain a dream for long. According to a 2018 interview with Paper Magazine , Bynes began abusing Adderall.
She recalled a moment working on the film Hall Pass where she chewed so many Adderall tablets at once that her brain felt scattered. "When I was doing Hall Pass , I remember being in the trailer and I used to chew the Adderall tablets because I thought they made me [more] high [that way]," Bynes stated. "I remember chewing on a bunch of them and literally being scatterbrained and not being able to focus on my lines or memorize them for that matter.
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