Amanda Bynes may be mentally ill, and her parents have gone to court to apply for conservatorship to take the troubled 27-year old under their wing. Buzzfeed reports that Bynes is extremely paranoid, has been using drugs and spent more than $1.2 million in a "very short amount of time."

Rick and Lynn Bynes described their daughter to the court as "appearing to have a substance abuse problem" and being "extremely paranoid about being watched, including at our residence." After leaving NYC, Bynes flew to L.A. and her hometown of Thousand Oaks, Calif., where she recently was placed on a 5150 psychiatric after setting a fire in a neighbor's driveway on Monday night.

Court papers read that Bynes "would cover smoke alarms with towels, tape windows shut and cover her car dashboard with cardboard and tape out of fear that cameras were watching her from inside these places," all evidence of possible paranoia.

Currently Bynes is on a two-week hold at a local hospital, and her parents worry she is currently homeless, as she allegedly told them she "cabbed it" to California from the Big Apple and they are unsure of where she is staying currently.

"We believe she is essentially homeless," the court filing states.

The star became notorious with the media after a series of Twitter rants calling everyone from the President of the United States to Drake "ugly," claiming to love plastic surgery (which she has no evidence of getting) and posting other nonsensical and controversial statements saying she will sue magazines for using her photos and claiming that tabloids "morphed" her face onto someone else's body to fake photos of her.


"Amanda has profound issues with her body image and is obsessed with the idea that she (and others) are 'ugly,' her parents said. "She talks incessantly about cosmetic surgeries that she wants to have completed. We are concerned that the surgeries she wants to have are dangerous and detrimental to her health." Bynes has also been spotted acting bizarre multiple times in public, and has run-ins with the law and confrontations with paparazzi, causing many to speculate whether she is doing it for attention or has truly lost touch with reality.

The judge has scheduled a hearing on the conservatorship for Aug. 9 and hopes to meet with Bynes's parents before making a decision.

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