In 2013 American actress Amanda Bynes was targeted by the media for a series or outlandish behaviour including; throwing a bong out of her NYC apartment window, being arrested for a DUI but also for setting fire to a driveway and spilling gasoline on her dog. The media often compared her erratic behaviour to other notorious child stars turned bad, such as; Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan. However the only difference was that although she was considered to be following the trend of spiralling out of control, it eventually progressed into a revelation about her mental health and why she was acting so erratically. The first signal of that Bynes was following the trend of Hollywood starlets acting out, was that she was arrested for a DUI and a hit and run - of which she tweeted the Obama's asking to let her off her driving tickets. As her mental health slowly deteriorated she began acting out more bizarrely whether it be a series of Twitter arguments with fellow celebrities - including calling stars like Zac Efron, The Obama's and Miley Cyrus ugly as well as having a love/hate online relationship with rapper Drake - of which she tweeted 'I want @Drake to murder my vagina'. The media often suggested that Amanda Bynes was on drugs or acting out like her other child star peers, however it surfaced that she had an mental illness, which was seen when she was placed on a 5150 involuntary psychiatric hold for her behaviour and was examined closely by doctors which determined that she has bipolar disorder and schizophrenia.
