Amanda Bynes released an apologetic statement through a lawyer today, after recordings of her threatening to murder her family leaked online. "I'm sorry I trusted people who clearly were not my friends and capitalized on my illness," she said. "I am doing my best to get better."

TMZ released a pair of of audio recordings today in which Amanda Bynes talks about her desire to slit her parents' wrists and burn down their house.

Last week, troubled young woman Heidi Montag reached out to troubled young woman Amanda Bynes via Twitter and offered her a place to stay. How nice. She doubled down on her embarrassingly misguided and deeply unhelpful opportunism in a recent interview with Extra.

TMZ reports that Amanda Bynes's parents will "file legal docs in the next few days handing over the conservatorship over their daughter to someone else, and then they're moving to Texas." The conservatorship will likely go to a mental health professional.

Amanda Bynes tweeted early this morning that she's been diagnosed with bipolar disorder and that she is taking her medication. Bynes has been tweeting and deleting various statements about her health since she was released from a psychiatric hold on Friday.

Amanda Bynes was released from her psychiatric hold at a Los Angeles hospital yesterday when a hearing officer ruled she was stable enough that she could not be held involuntarily. She left, wandered along Sunset Blvd., and ate diner food by herself.

One minor subplot in the saga of former teen movie star Amanda Bynes' brief return to public life was the bizarre case of a little-known Twitter account, @PersianLA27, that some theorized was being secretly used by Bynes to defend herself. Last night the account was hacked, and the perpetrators leaked direct messages say prove it was Bynes after all.

Amanda Bynes' involuntary psychiatric hold was extended for an additional 14 days today after her parents reportedly partnered with troubled-child-star-whisperer Sam Lutfi to trick her into returning to Los Angeles.

After a week of erratic, troubling behavior, Amanda Bynes has reportedly been placed on an involuntary psychiatric hold at a California hospital. According to People, the actress was admitted for treatment shortly after landing at LAX Friday afternoon.

In a series of tweets posted earlier this morning, Amanda Bynes accused her dad of child abuse, saying he was "verbally and physically" abusive when she was a kid and that living with him "was a total nightmare." Now she says the microchip in her brain made her say those things.

Witnesses who saw Amanda Bynes inside New York boutique Pookie & Sebastian described her as "dancing and muttering about plastic surgery." Now we have visual evidence that confirms at least the first portion of that account.

The last 24 hours of Amanda Bynes' life, if the tabloids are to be believed, have been... troubling. Yesterday, In Touch reported that she believes there is a microchip in her head (Bynes denies having said this). Elsewhere things have not been any less bizarre.

Fresh off her latest DUI charge and apparent relapse into... something, Amanda Bynes spent an ill-advised day with an InTouch Weekly reporter this week. The resulting interview ranges from sad to alarming: Bynes told InTouch there's a microchip in her brain, and said "I want a dollar a day from every person who [is] reading my mind."

Today in an interview with In Touch, Amanda Bynes revealed that she is engaged to a 19-year-old bait shop employee named Caleb. Given what appears to be her mental state, it was easy to to assume her story was some sort of made-up fairy tale. But, believe it or not, it looks like it actually checks out.

Amanda Bynes' notorious Twitter account has been silent for months, but she appears to be back on Twitter under the guise of a "fashion designer" named Ashley Barks, a.k.a. @PersianLa27. Bynes denied having a secret account in March, after InTouch outed her as PersianLa, but "Ashley" has continued tweeting in the voice of Amanda Bynes since then.

Former teen star Amanda Bynes, known for bong-throwing and asking Drake to commit capital offenses against her vagina, briefly seemed like she had it together—she was taking her medication, attending fashion school, and staying out of the headlines. But Bynes unfortunately reentered the public eye this week when she was arrested for driving under the influence of weed and Adderall.

Amanda Bynes was having a relatively quiet 2014 until yesterday, when she was arrested for driving under the influence of a "controlled substance." Today, TMZ reports that the substance was a stimulant: Adderall. She may have also been smoking weed.

Amanda Bynes has been placed on an extended 30-day psychiatric hold, reportedly following an emergency hearing held at her hospital. The actress was scheduled to appear in court Friday but TMZ says doctors determined she wasn't well enough to travel.

"If that is her, I guess it’s a little weird and disturbing. It’s obviously a behavioral pattern that is way bigger than me,” Drake told XXL Magazine, in response to a question about Amanda Bynes' "I want Drake to murder my vagina" tweet.

This is dark: "...Amanda [Bynes] is suffering from a severe mental illness 'with schizophrenic tendencies.' We're told she's aware 'there's a good Amanda and a bad Amanda.' When she talks about the bad Amanda she almost mimics an exorcism, pulling at her body as if to remove the demon, and even biting herself."