LOS ANGELES (AP) — Actress Amanda Bynes was released Tuesday from a judicial guardianship that put her life and financial decisions under her parents' control for nearly nine years.
Ventura County Superior Court Judge Roger Lund terminated the conservatorship at a court hearing in the city of Oxnard, California, his lawyer David A. Esquibias said.
“The court determines that guardianship is no longer required and that there are no longer grounds to establish a guardianship of the person,” Lund wrote in court documents describing the case, before issuing his decision.
Bynes, 35, rose to fame on a couple of Nickelodeon shows as a teenager, but his mental health, substance abuse, and problems with the law led his parents to establish judicial control through guardianship in 2013.
Lund said this week that Bynes had demonstrated competence to manage his own affairs, including his mental health and other medical treatments.
Bynes' guardianship passed and came to an end in a much calmer and less controversial way than that of Britney Spears, who had a long, often bitter and public struggle to free herself from a similar arrangement.
Bynes' parents agreed that the guardianship should end and no one else opposed the court's decision. Her mother, Lynn Bynes, had acted as her guardian since she was established almost nine years ago.
At the time, her parents told the court that they were deeply concerned that their daughter, who was then 27 years old, might hurt herself or others unless they were allowed to take control of their health care and finances.
They said that Bynes had been in disturbing behavior and was convinced that she was being watched through smoke detectors and the dashboard of her car. His parents feared that he was also planning to have unnecessary and dangerous cosmetic surgeries.
The year before guardianship was established, Bynes was arrested in New York for throwing a marijuana pipe from her apartment on a 36th floor, and in Los Angeles for driving under the influence of alcohol, a misdemeanor of hit-and-run and driving on a suspended license. His parents said he also set fire in the driveway of a house in Thousand Oaks, a suburb of Los Angeles where he grew up.
Bynes was 13 years old when he got his hit variety show, “The Amanda Show” on Nickelodeon, and also appeared in the network's sketch series “All That” (“All That and More”). She then starred in the television series “What I Like About You” and films such as “What a Girl Wants” (“What a Girl Wants”), “Hairspray” and “She's the Man” (“A Girl in Distress”).
He hasn't acted since the 2010 film with Emma Stone “Easy A” and has publicly stated that he retired from acting.
Bynes has said in interviews that she has been sober for several years and that she is studying at the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising in Los Angeles.
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