Amanda Bynes Is Done With Probation
Amanda Bynes is officially out of legal trouble.
TMZ reports that Bynes, 30, finished her probation for her 2014 DUI case on Friday, Feb. 24, 2017.
Bynes was arrested in September 2014 for driving under the influence of Adderall, for which she had a prescription from a doctor. Still, sources claim that Bynes was "out of it" when she was pulled over and refused a sobriety test. At the time, she was still on probation for a previous reckless driving charge. She was eventually released on $15,000 bail.
The 2014 arrest occurred just after Bynes' parents' conservatorship over her ended, and insiders told TMZ that Bynes had reportedly stopped taking her prescribed medications for bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, and that she'd been smoking marijuana.
In the month that followed her arrest, Bynes was kicked out of the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising for allegedly getting into "horrendous arguments" and disrupting classes with her behavior, which sometimes included random bouts of hysterical laughter, allegedly paying other students to do her homework, and allegedly cheating on tests. She also claimed to be engaged to a 19-year-old named Caleb, then banned from Barney's department stores after allegedly shoplifting there.
By Oct. 10, 2014, Bynes was placed on a 5150 psychiatric hold, then placed under another conservatorship by her parents. She'd first been placed on a 5150 hold and under a conservatorship in July 2013 after a series of disturbing events that culminated when she lit a fire in a stranger's driveway.
Bynes re-enrolled at FIDM in October 2015, and sources say she's currently in a good place and planning to release a fashion line next year.