{"id":271646,"date":"2019-04-20T09:05:23","date_gmt":"2019-04-20T15:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1034323"},"modified":"2019-04-20T09:05:23","modified_gmt":"2019-04-20T15:05:23","slug":"inside-amanda-bynes-recovery-shes-working-on-herself-after-graduating-fidm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/inside-amanda-bynes-recovery-shes-working-on-herself-after-graduating-fidm\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside Amanda Bynes’ Recovery: She’s “Working on Herself” After Graduating FIDM"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Now a college graduate, Amanda Bynes<\/a><\/strong> is “working on herself” amid her recovery and a new rehab stint.<\/p>\n

The 33-year-old Hairspray<\/em> and Easy A<\/em> actress had checked into a facility in January after a “relapse” and had sought treatment from mental health professionals and addiction counselors for drug addiction and mental health issues, multiple outlets reported in March<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“Amanda is doing great, working on herself, and taking some well-deserved time off to focus on her wellbeing after graduating FIDM [Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising] in December,” Bynes’ family’s attorney, Tamar Arminak<\/strong>, said in a statement to E! News.<\/p>\n

“She’s spending time reading and exercising, sketching for her new line and mostly making sure this time around she puts her needs first,” the lawyer added.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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The actress had enrolled at FIDM, a for-profit California college<\/a>, in early 2014, weeks after she left a treatment facility<\/a> and months after she was placed on an involuntary 5150 psychiatric hold<\/a> in her hometown of Thousand Oaks following legal and personal turmoil<\/a> and a slew of disturbing tweets, which had prompted a judge to place her under the custody of her parents.<\/p>\n

In fall 2014, Bynes was arrested on suspicion of DUI<\/a>, a case that was later dismissed, and later again sought help at a treatment facility<\/a> and remained there for a month. She tweeted that she had been diagnosed as bipolar and manic depressive<\/a>.<\/p>\n

She returned to FIDM<\/a> a year later. A source close to Bynes told E! News in March 2018 that the actress was on track to graduate the following fall<\/a>. Bynes told Paper<\/a><\/em> magazine in a November 2018 interview<\/a> that she would receive her Associate’s of Art degree in Merchandise Product Development that month before embarking on a Bachelor’s degree in January\u2014the month she entered treatment again. She told the outlet that she had been sober for almost four years, with the help of her parents.<\/p>\n

“My advice to anyone who is struggling with substance abuse would be to be really careful because drugs can really take a hold of your life,” she told Paper<\/em>. “Everybody is different, obviously, but for me, the mixture of marijuana and whatever other drugs and sometimes drinking really messed up my brain. It really made me a completely different person. I actually am a nice person. I would never feel, say or do any of the things that I did and said to the people I hurt on Twitter.”<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, amid her recovery and her continuing education, the actress appears to be pursuing other interests outside of the acting world; In October, she filed to trademark the phrase “Vintage by Amanda Bynes” for use on clothes, cosmetics, jewelry, furniture, and household containers.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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