From Nickelodeon Girl to Fire Starter: The Sad Story of Amanda Bynes

The actress was placed under psychiatric care last week after she set a house fire in Los Angeles.

Actress Amanda Bynes, a former Nickelodeon children's channel icon, was placed under psychiatric care last week after she started a fire in the driveway of a home in Thousand Oaks, a Los Angeles suburb where she grew up.

The scandals are not recent for her. In May, Bynes was arrested in New York for throwing a marijuana hookah from the window of her 36th-floor Manhattan apartment. Police had entered her apartment to investigate a complaint that she had been smoking in the lobby. of the building.

 Last year, she was charged in Los Angeles with driving on a suspended license after she was charged with driving while intoxicated, hit-and-run.

The former Nickelodeon has accumulated $4 million in savings, but has spent $1.2 million in a short period, according to her parents, on drugs and plastic surgery.

"Amanda has major issues with her body image and is obsessed with the idea that she is ugly. She talks incessantly about plastic surgeries that she wants done," her parents said.

In the last few hours, she has improved considerably and is stable, after doctors prescribed several drugs during her stay in a psychiatric hospital.