Amanda Bynes files to end her conservatorship after nine years: ‘It’s no longer necessary’
Actor’s legal guardianship was extended for another two years in September 2021
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Your support makes all the difference.Amanda Bynes has filed to end her conservatorship after nine years.
The She’s The Man star was initially placed under a temporary conservatorship in August 2013 after suffering a number of mental health and substance problems.
However, her mother Lynn, who is Bynes’s conservator, asked for the legal guardianship to be extended by a judge. It has been continued a number of times since, most recently in September for another two years.
However, on Tuesday (22 February), Bynes filed a capacity declaration at Ventura County Superior Court in California. This document shows an up-to-date assessment of a conservatee’s mental state and is a required document used in California conservatorship cases.
The following day (Wednesday 25 February), the 35-year-old submitted court documents requesting the termination of the conservatorship of both her person and her estate.
A hearing is scheduled for 22 March.
In a statement shared with People, the former child star’s lawyer David A Esquibias said: “Amanda wishes to terminate her conservatorship. She believes her condition is improved and protection of the court is no longer necessary.”
Bynes was first detained in July 2013 after she allegedly started a small fire in a stranger’s driveway. She was hospitalised for 72 hours, during which her parents filed for conservatorship.
In 2018, the Easy A actor said that she had been sober for four years with the help of her parents.
Speaking to Paper, she said: “I’m really ashamed and embarrassed with the things I said. I can’t turn back time but if I could, I would.”
Bynes began her career as a child actor on kids’ channel Nickelodeon, where she starred in her own series The Amanda Show from 1999 to 2002.
She went on to star in a number of high-profile teen movies, including Big Fat Liar, What A Girl Wants, Sidney White and Easy A.