Mischa Barton is speaking out for the first time on her forced psychiatric hold last month. The actress tells Time Out New York that though the ordeal was “pretty bad,” it was still blown out of proportion in the media.
Barton, 23, says a combination of things lead to her hospitalization. Before she was set to start filming the CW show The Beautiful Life, she had been traveling abroad for “contract stuff” and then had surgery to remove her wisdom teeth, which went wrong and is “still just healing.” “I had to get through it without proper painkillers because I couldn’t take those during work. So it’s been a nightmare,” she explains.
“I went through a tough spot where everything compounded on me, and it was like a perfect storm, like everything was happening to me at once,” she says. “I was down in the dumps about everything there for a while," she reveals. "Sometimes you have to hit rock bottom about things and have to get the most stressed out just to feel better again. I got completely stressed out and couldn’t handle everything, and now I feel really in control.”
Barton is currently in NYC filming The Beautiful Life.
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