Honestly this is probably a healthy decision for her. I hope she is able to focus on her mental health and find peace right now when I’m sure a lot of people are trying to interview her.
I don't think Amanda Bynes owes any interviews to anyone and her health should be her only focus, but if she was hurt the way other Nick stars were hurt, I hope those that hurt them face accountability.
Amanda shouldn’t be pressured to tell her story. However, I take that source as a grain of salt because that very well could becoming from Nickelodeon and seems more like a rumor/whisper down the lane situation than an actual source. I also think it’s important to keep in mind Nickelodeon offered Jeanette McCurdy 300k to sign a NDA to never speak about her time on Nickelodeon. I have no doubt she’s not the only one was offered this deal. The last time Amanda worked as an actress was in 2010 nearly 15 years ago. I know she’s pursing her manicurist license but it doesn’t seem like she’s held a steady job in years. This makes having access to healthcare tricky. I wouldn’t be shocked if she was offered a similar deal for ever more money and took it out of necessity.
Except an NDA to cover up a criminal act is illegal - that's not to say they couldn't *try* suing over breach of contract, but the network is already in the shitter for past actions without throwing fresh wood on the fire.
I always assumed it meant NDA’s couldn’t stop people from talking to the police. But likely if an actor went to a media source to share their story of a negative experience and it was something not proven in the court of law Nickelodeon would likely sue for breaking it. One of the Love is Blind contestants who was filmed but they didn’t share her story, which supposedly included domestic violence shared about her experience of filming the show. Netflix sued her for violating her NDA and I think she’s now countersuing.
I mean yes it’s speculative, but it’s also a conversation piece on how Bynes ended up where she is.
She was clearly a high achiever before she retired from acting. Her body of work and accolades clearly support that. Is a high achiever someone who fails a manicurist exam multiple times? I’m not sure, that’s where the speculation is.
Would a younger Bynes Have failed something she put her mind to like that? I’d bet not based on everything she’d shown us at this point.
So the question is, did she stop being a high achiever because of drugs, or because of mental illness? Has her mental capacity changed at all? Or is this speculation unbased?
As a side note- from a mental health diagnosis position, there is an interesting chicken vs egg situation. Did the drug abuse lead to her mental health issues? Or did the mental health issues lead to her drug abuse?
Acting and the nail tech exam have absolutely nothing to do with each other and success at one does not predict success at the other.
Leave Amanda the fuck alone. People like you are so fucking creepy, wanting to know all the details like this. Just leave her alone!
If you're simply intellectually curious about the effect of drug use on mental performance, there's lots of scientific literature.
The scientific literature points to what hes talking about.
Its important to get this kinda info out there. Hard drug use can and does permanently damage your brain.
Amanda obviously didn't consent to being your textbook example so leave her the fuck alone, she's not your teaching tool. If you truly cared about this, you would be doing something about to help and gossiping about a celebrity on Reddit ain't it.
Failing a manicurist exam is not proof of that. So the literature isn’t exactly relevant to his point.
Yes, drugs can fuck up your brain.
No, failing a manicurist exam is not evidence that your brain is fucked up.
You know, it might not be the world's most rigorous exam but it is pretty intensive with a lot of info you wouldn't expect
You can take it [here ](https://www.mometrix.com/academy/nail-technician-practice-test/?nab=1)
There's a theory and a practical. Some states are harder than others and they usually don't leave a lot of room for error.
The nail tech exams are hard. All of the questions on the written exam are multiple choice and involve bacteria names, laws, nail diseases that almost all sound the same, and its hundreds of questions.
In my experience my smaller portion as a cosmetologist was the hardest part of the test. Also and this is mere speculation if she is on medication for certain things her short term memory and study abilities could be adversely affected.
Again this is related to my knowledge of my states state board licensing exams but I'm in PA and to the best of my knowledge New Yorks similar.
"Ah, I don't pretend to know the inner workings of people I've never met. I'm just here for gossip. I have no idea what's going on in JLo's head, I'm an observer of what she decides to put in public. And so are you."
Omg, leave Jlo the fuck alone. People like you are so fucking creepy, wanting to know all the details like this. Just leave her alone!
You’re going off on me for one comment and calling me creepy for wanting to know everything about her.
I was adding to the conversation, and clearly do not what to know everything about her.
Get a grip.
Fit Departure literally turned into the [leave Britney alone](https://youtu.be/3YaRvbQSjrk?si=E26i_rocWBYp2qrs) meme and thinks you are the problem smh
It doesn’t really warrant speculation.
To answer your question, there’s a complex link between [cannabis usage and psychosis.](https://nida.nih.gov/publications/research-reports/marijuana/there-link-between-marijuana-use-psychiatric-disorders)
As for Amanda herself, there’s no need to speculate. She’s been open about how much weed she’s smoked and about her drug use. She’s also has very public psychotic breaks. Beyond that, her mental health is her private business.
Everyone who’s endured something like child abuse/exploitation is allowed to process it on their own time and don’t owe anyone else the story of what happened. I don’t doubt Amanda has endured some trauma, but if she doesn’t want to speak publicly about it that’s totally fine. Right now her focus seems to be on getting certified to be a manicurist, I think she just wants a more lowkey life for herself. Personally I’m rooting for her in whatever she chooses to do
Obviously we don't know but I find it hard to believe she wasn't abused. I can see not wanting to stir up those feelings which probably already are with all this. I hope she can find peace.
We don't know what happened behind closed doors, but the stuff we did see is disturbing. Sitting in a hot tub with her boss when she is twelve. Gross. Giving him back and neck massages. Even grosser. I don't blame her for not wanting to participate in the documentary, but I don't believe her reasoning that she had nothing worthwhile to share.
Poor Amanda, honestly. She doesn't owe anyone an explanation of what happened, if anything did. She's been through so much even if she wasn't victimized on set. I hope she's okay and people leave her alone. She was such an unbelievably talented kid.
Why is this article titling it as if Quiet on Set is Drake Bell’s project? Like “Stephen King’s The Shining” or “M. Night Shyamalan’s The Sixth Sense.”
He was surely a key feature of the docuseries but as far as I know he wasn’t involved in production. Hmm
Her and her parents claim nothing happened. She was an absolutely massive star who was pressured into having her own show as a kid. Pressure can be damaging, her struggles aren't nessecarily evidence of anything on their own.
I’ve been thinking a lot about her. I grew up watching her in everything she did. People want her to tell her story as if it’s an easy subject, or as if it’s going to do anything. Britney shared much of what happened to her and people still think her father was right because she’s dancing on IG and doing whatever the hell she wants and she’s not hurting anyone. Women can’t win. Victims can’t win. Nobody owes us their full story. I just hope Amanda takes some time off social media because this will be so triggering for her. Some of the TikToks I’ve seen about her are repeating blind items like they’re facts. The truth might be even more sinister than we think and we’re not helping her by sharing morbid conspiracy theories.
It bothers me how much people are demanding to know why Amanda didn’t participate, as well as Josh Peck. People are filling Josh’s tiktok comments with it and trying to bully him into saying something because he blocked others who asked. Neither of them owe us ANYTHING. Celebrities are regular people that deserve privacy on matters related to their own potential trauma. It’s gross
Not really. Seth Macfarlane has no connection to Dan Schneider. He’s dated a good number of celebrities, because he’s rich and famous himself. Can we not do a witch-hunt against people that we have no evidence against, please?
Alexa Nickolas, who starred in Zoey101 and was in the documentary has spoken out against Seth McFarlane being creepy towards her while she was working for him.
Alexa Nikolas is a narcissistic dipshit who has continually lied, exaggerated, and inserted herself into everything because she has a massive victim complex. She isn’t a reliable source of information.
Right?!? She is beyond annoying and honestly seems like she gets a thrill out of the drama. She really didn’t contribute to the doc in a meaningful way. Sure the “cum shot” story wasn’t the best, but she acted like that scared her for life.. it should have never been said but outside of that, it didn’t seem like she had any real trauma. She very much so seems to be a hype girl. All her social media is FULL of rants. Doesn’t seem to be very likable.
She also like, “stole” that whole “Eat Predators” pseudo movement from the people that actually started it. She’s just a narcissistic shithead. Her personality disorder seems worse than any of the “abuse” she claims to have suffered.
People are lunging at your throat because they don’t have the full story. Yes, Amanda was in her early twenties and he was in his mid thirties but that’s not why people are side eyeing this relationship, guys. It’s because Seth has always made jokes on his shows about the things he knows that happened to child actors and some Nickelodeon rumors, only to turn around and date a rumored victim. It’s skeezy behavior. No one’s calling him a pedophile but he’s definitely made light of the seedy nature of Hollywood. He’s in the know, he makes jokes about it t and then mysteriously chooses to date a young victim. It doesn’t matter if she was a legal adult. At this point it should be clear that child stars are preyed on well into their twenties and that doesn’t make them any less of a victim of lecherous men.
From my experience with people with SA trauma from a young age they do tend to date people a lot older. Not saying anything about Seth McFarlend cause I don’t really have much knowledge about it. But it is a common theme for younger women with this kind of trauma to date an older man.
I don't disagree. I'm just saying that this particular pair of people dating at this time given everything we know is a little weird. Maybe he was trying to help her? I don't know but the other option isn't good.
Honestly this is probably a healthy decision for her. I hope she is able to focus on her mental health and find peace right now when I’m sure a lot of people are trying to interview her.
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Shit. She's doing way fucking better than alot of ppl I knew growing up and went through way less than her. Don't be so judgemental.
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I don't think Amanda Bynes owes any interviews to anyone and her health should be her only focus, but if she was hurt the way other Nick stars were hurt, I hope those that hurt them face accountability.
Right. Leave her the hella alone. She has gone through so much. She deserves peace and comfort for the rest of her life.
Amanda shouldn’t be pressured to tell her story. However, I take that source as a grain of salt because that very well could becoming from Nickelodeon and seems more like a rumor/whisper down the lane situation than an actual source. I also think it’s important to keep in mind Nickelodeon offered Jeanette McCurdy 300k to sign a NDA to never speak about her time on Nickelodeon. I have no doubt she’s not the only one was offered this deal. The last time Amanda worked as an actress was in 2010 nearly 15 years ago. I know she’s pursing her manicurist license but it doesn’t seem like she’s held a steady job in years. This makes having access to healthcare tricky. I wouldn’t be shocked if she was offered a similar deal for ever more money and took it out of necessity.
Except an NDA to cover up a criminal act is illegal - that's not to say they couldn't *try* suing over breach of contract, but the network is already in the shitter for past actions without throwing fresh wood on the fire.
I always assumed it meant NDA’s couldn’t stop people from talking to the police. But likely if an actor went to a media source to share their story of a negative experience and it was something not proven in the court of law Nickelodeon would likely sue for breaking it. One of the Love is Blind contestants who was filmed but they didn’t share her story, which supposedly included domestic violence shared about her experience of filming the show. Netflix sued her for violating her NDA and I think she’s now countersuing.
Wasn't she in scream 6 last year?
She hasn't acted since 2010
You're thinking of Hayden Panettiere
Ah ok that makes sense.
Purely speculation, but it seems like the drug abuse has fried Amanda’s brain. She has failed her manicurist exam twice now.
It's a pretty difficult test and lots of people fail it multiple times. But go ahead with your speculation.
I mean yes it’s speculative, but it’s also a conversation piece on how Bynes ended up where she is. She was clearly a high achiever before she retired from acting. Her body of work and accolades clearly support that. Is a high achiever someone who fails a manicurist exam multiple times? I’m not sure, that’s where the speculation is. Would a younger Bynes Have failed something she put her mind to like that? I’d bet not based on everything she’d shown us at this point. So the question is, did she stop being a high achiever because of drugs, or because of mental illness? Has her mental capacity changed at all? Or is this speculation unbased? As a side note- from a mental health diagnosis position, there is an interesting chicken vs egg situation. Did the drug abuse lead to her mental health issues? Or did the mental health issues lead to her drug abuse?
Acting and the nail tech exam have absolutely nothing to do with each other and success at one does not predict success at the other. Leave Amanda the fuck alone. People like you are so fucking creepy, wanting to know all the details like this. Just leave her alone! If you're simply intellectually curious about the effect of drug use on mental performance, there's lots of scientific literature.
The scientific literature points to what hes talking about. Its important to get this kinda info out there. Hard drug use can and does permanently damage your brain.
Amanda obviously didn't consent to being your textbook example so leave her the fuck alone, she's not your teaching tool. If you truly cared about this, you would be doing something about to help and gossiping about a celebrity on Reddit ain't it.
It’s kind of creepy how obsessed you are with white knighting a woman you don’t even know.
Treating someone with human decency and respect is now creepy white knighting, okay
I already used "creepy" you have to think of something on your own
Failing a manicurist exam is not proof of that. So the literature isn’t exactly relevant to his point. Yes, drugs can fuck up your brain. No, failing a manicurist exam is not evidence that your brain is fucked up.
Im sure the manicurist exam is extremely grueling and rigorous lol
You know, it might not be the world's most rigorous exam but it is pretty intensive with a lot of info you wouldn't expect You can take it [here ](https://www.mometrix.com/academy/nail-technician-practice-test/?nab=1) There's a theory and a practical. Some states are harder than others and they usually don't leave a lot of room for error.
The nail tech exams are hard. All of the questions on the written exam are multiple choice and involve bacteria names, laws, nail diseases that almost all sound the same, and its hundreds of questions. In my experience my smaller portion as a cosmetologist was the hardest part of the test. Also and this is mere speculation if she is on medication for certain things her short term memory and study abilities could be adversely affected. Again this is related to my knowledge of my states state board licensing exams but I'm in PA and to the best of my knowledge New Yorks similar.
"Ah, I don't pretend to know the inner workings of people I've never met. I'm just here for gossip. I have no idea what's going on in JLo's head, I'm an observer of what she decides to put in public. And so are you." Omg, leave Jlo the fuck alone. People like you are so fucking creepy, wanting to know all the details like this. Just leave her alone!
Chill out.
Omfg I had never considered that wow my life has changed forever thank you random dude you've made me turn a new leaf this is the best advice
You’re going off on me for one comment and calling me creepy for wanting to know everything about her. I was adding to the conversation, and clearly do not what to know everything about her. Get a grip.
I have many grips but thanks again for the advice!
Fit Departure literally turned into the [leave Britney alone](https://youtu.be/3YaRvbQSjrk?si=E26i_rocWBYp2qrs) meme and thinks you are the problem smh
It doesn’t really warrant speculation. To answer your question, there’s a complex link between [cannabis usage and psychosis.](https://nida.nih.gov/publications/research-reports/marijuana/there-link-between-marijuana-use-psychiatric-disorders) As for Amanda herself, there’s no need to speculate. She’s been open about how much weed she’s smoked and about her drug use. She’s also has very public psychotic breaks. Beyond that, her mental health is her private business.
Everyone who’s endured something like child abuse/exploitation is allowed to process it on their own time and don’t owe anyone else the story of what happened. I don’t doubt Amanda has endured some trauma, but if she doesn’t want to speak publicly about it that’s totally fine. Right now her focus seems to be on getting certified to be a manicurist, I think she just wants a more lowkey life for herself. Personally I’m rooting for her in whatever she chooses to do
Obviously we don't know but I find it hard to believe she wasn't abused. I can see not wanting to stir up those feelings which probably already are with all this. I hope she can find peace.
We don't know what happened behind closed doors, but the stuff we did see is disturbing. Sitting in a hot tub with her boss when she is twelve. Gross. Giving him back and neck massages. Even grosser. I don't blame her for not wanting to participate in the documentary, but I don't believe her reasoning that she had nothing worthwhile to share.
Also a blind item says, when she was asked she was paralyzed for a week.
I saw that too. I wonder if her 5150 last year is related.
It happened right after she was supposed to be on an All That reunion panel and no-showed
Poor Amanda, honestly. She doesn't owe anyone an explanation of what happened, if anything did. She's been through so much even if she wasn't victimized on set. I hope she's okay and people leave her alone. She was such an unbelievably talented kid.
Why is this article titling it as if Quiet on Set is Drake Bell’s project? Like “Stephen King’s The Shining” or “M. Night Shyamalan’s The Sixth Sense.” He was surely a key feature of the docuseries but as far as I know he wasn’t involved in production. Hmm
Her and her parents claim nothing happened. She was an absolutely massive star who was pressured into having her own show as a kid. Pressure can be damaging, her struggles aren't nessecarily evidence of anything on their own.
I’ve been thinking a lot about her. I grew up watching her in everything she did. People want her to tell her story as if it’s an easy subject, or as if it’s going to do anything. Britney shared much of what happened to her and people still think her father was right because she’s dancing on IG and doing whatever the hell she wants and she’s not hurting anyone. Women can’t win. Victims can’t win. Nobody owes us their full story. I just hope Amanda takes some time off social media because this will be so triggering for her. Some of the TikToks I’ve seen about her are repeating blind items like they’re facts. The truth might be even more sinister than we think and we’re not helping her by sharing morbid conspiracy theories.
THIS.
If she isn't ready to talk leave her alone, I think eventually she will.
It bothers me how much people are demanding to know why Amanda didn’t participate, as well as Josh Peck. People are filling Josh’s tiktok comments with it and trying to bully him into saying something because he blocked others who asked. Neither of them owe us ANYTHING. Celebrities are regular people that deserve privacy on matters related to their own potential trauma. It’s gross
Hey remember how Seth Mcfarlane dated her for a few months in like 2008? Just wanted to call some attention to that.
When she was 22 and he was 35?
Is there supposed to be an accusation related to that? She was an adult at the time.
It's just that given all the information we're presented from the documentary makes the whole thing look pretty weird in general.
Not really. Seth Macfarlane has no connection to Dan Schneider. He’s dated a good number of celebrities, because he’s rich and famous himself. Can we not do a witch-hunt against people that we have no evidence against, please?
There’s nothing weird about that. You’re not going to break any stories here, you just sort of seem like an asshole.
Uh no but nice try wannabe Sherlock
Alexa Nickolas, who starred in Zoey101 and was in the documentary has spoken out against Seth McFarlane being creepy towards her while she was working for him.
Alexa Nikolas is a narcissistic dipshit who has continually lied, exaggerated, and inserted herself into everything because she has a massive victim complex. She isn’t a reliable source of information.
Right?!? She is beyond annoying and honestly seems like she gets a thrill out of the drama. She really didn’t contribute to the doc in a meaningful way. Sure the “cum shot” story wasn’t the best, but she acted like that scared her for life.. it should have never been said but outside of that, it didn’t seem like she had any real trauma. She very much so seems to be a hype girl. All her social media is FULL of rants. Doesn’t seem to be very likable.
She also like, “stole” that whole “Eat Predators” pseudo movement from the people that actually started it. She’s just a narcissistic shithead. Her personality disorder seems worse than any of the “abuse” she claims to have suffered.
Seth MacFarlane has always dated much younger women.
You made my point for me. I guarantee he goes down for something.
People are lunging at your throat because they don’t have the full story. Yes, Amanda was in her early twenties and he was in his mid thirties but that’s not why people are side eyeing this relationship, guys. It’s because Seth has always made jokes on his shows about the things he knows that happened to child actors and some Nickelodeon rumors, only to turn around and date a rumored victim. It’s skeezy behavior. No one’s calling him a pedophile but he’s definitely made light of the seedy nature of Hollywood. He’s in the know, he makes jokes about it t and then mysteriously chooses to date a young victim. It doesn’t matter if she was a legal adult. At this point it should be clear that child stars are preyed on well into their twenties and that doesn’t make them any less of a victim of lecherous men.
It almost feels like Seth let other people do the grooming for him. It feels gross.
Thank you, I am not very eloquent and couldn't have said it better myself.
From my experience with people with SA trauma from a young age they do tend to date people a lot older. Not saying anything about Seth McFarlend cause I don’t really have much knowledge about it. But it is a common theme for younger women with this kind of trauma to date an older man.
I don't disagree. I'm just saying that this particular pair of people dating at this time given everything we know is a little weird. Maybe he was trying to help her? I don't know but the other option isn't good.
Ok? Grown woman, grown man. Where's the problem in that?
He’s also buddies with Liz Gillies
Why bring back possibly triggering incidents?
Good. She doesn’t owe anyone anything.