Amanda Bynes says she has a 19-year-old fianc & theyre going to have babies
Last week, Amanda Bynes got another DUI. As it turns out, her conservatorship ended in September and her parents thought she was “cured” from the marijuana, so Amanda left home and proceeded to try her damnedest to hit rock bottom yet again. She got her DUI in LA, and soon after her arrest and release, she flew to NYC, which is a bad sign. There were about a million stories last week about her relapse, but I didn’t cover much beyond noting her DUI. One of the strangest stories (in a week full of weirdness) was that Amanda had been kicked out of fashion school after she tried to pay another student to do her work.
My take is still that Amanda is struggling with some kind of (profound) mental illness. This kind of messiness is not JUST from smoking the reefer, although I doubt the reefer helps. Amanda is profoundly unwell. But here’s a question: what is the responsibility of the media during this moment of Amanda’s downward spiral? Do we just act as stenographers, reporting the cold hard facts of Amanda’s situation? I don’t know. But I do know that this In Touch Weekly exclusive interview with Amanda made me feel gross:
Where will Amanda Bynes be making her next trip? Down the aisle, she says! The 28-year-old told In Touch Weekly exclusively that she not only has a 19-year-old boyfriend named Caleb, but also that they’re engaged! Her claim comes days after her arrest on DUI charges in California and a return to the concerning behavior that caused her to spend months under medical care.
“I am very needy for friendship and I hate men. I want to f— them, but I can now say I’m engaged — get away from me,” she told an In Touch reporter yesterday, Oct. 5. “I want to be married and I want to be away from people.”
She claimed her 19-year-old fiancé lives in Costa Mesa, California, and works in a bait shop. She told In Touch she hopes they can settle down in New York because she “really [likes] walking and riding [her] bike, and in California, you need to drive.”
“I really do not enjoy driving,” she said. “I don’t like the way I look in a car. The lighting is very bad.”
After saying “I do,” she plans to start a family with her husband-to-be —and hopes to have lots of baby boys.
“I want boys, for sure. However many I can pop out,” she told In Touch. “I don’t want a gorgeous girl around. Then I [would] feel way jealous. Ew.”
While she has yet to set a date for her alleged nuptials, she told the mag she will be exchanging vows at the London hotel in LA. The former child star is an aspiring fashion designer, and even enrolled in classes at the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising in California, but she said she’s hoping to leave the dress design up to someone else.
“I honestly would rather not [design my dress], but I’m so particular about how I look that I cannot imagine not designing it,” Amanda told In Touch.
On Sept. 28, Amanda was arrested in California and charged with driving under the influence. Days later, a source spotted the actress talking to herself at Los Angeles International Airport before boarding a flight to NYC — where she was allegedly seen talking to trees with a Band-Aid on her face.
OH GOD. Do you understand why I asked about the media’s role in this situation? It’s obvious that Amanda really did give In Touch Weekly this interview and they didn’t editorialize about her situation too much. But if you were on the phone with Amanda Bynes, wouldn’t you want to say, “Hey, sweetheart. Let’s get you checked into a psych ward, okay?” Also: what’s the over/under on her “19-year-old fiancé” being real person and not just a figment of her imagination?
Here are some photos of Bynes walking around NYC yesterday, flashing a big diamond ring. Gurl…
Photos courtesy of Pacific Coast News, Fame/Flynet.
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