Star steps out for early dinner with permanent life coach

Jun 5, 2015 07:34 GMT  ·  By

Of all the celebrity meltdowns we’ve witnessed these past 10 years, Amanda Bynes’ must have been the most publicized, heartbreaking and extensive. Trouble probably started around 2010, when she retired from acting to pursue a career in fashion design; 2 years later, she was getting arrested for DUIs and hit and runs.

A while later, she had moved to New York and was leading an erratic, seemingly friendless life, inviting paparazzi into her home to do drugs, going on nasty Twitter rants, talking to herself in cafes, dancing in shops and buying Cartier jewelry to give away to strangers passing her on the street.

Amanda has stepped back in the spotlight the other day, after a 3-month absence.

A very troubled road to recovery

Her road to recovery has been a very difficult one, involving 2 public meltdowns, several arrests and one extended stint in a mental rehabilitation facility, where she was admitted by her parents, who ambushed her and had her placed under a 5150 hold.

She was diagnosed with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, made worse by lack of proper treatment and alcohol and drug abuse. She was released in 2014, but she went off her medication shortly afterwards and had another meltdown, this time prompted by understanding that, under the conservatorship, she had only limited amounts of money to spend daily.

After this rant, her parents stepped in once more, this time to renounce their position as conservators of her estate, entrusting a judge to make the best decision for their daughter, who seemed to hate them so much as to stop taking her medication.

Since then, Amanda has been under the supervision of a life coach, who is with her around the clock, making sure she sticks to her new life and doesn’t fall off the wagon again.

Amanda re-emerges, looks very good

That life coach is the woman seen with her the other night at Craig’s in West Hollywood in the video below. According to TMZ, that’s the place where celebrities go when they want to be seen because the place is crawling with paparazzi at all hours of the day and night.

However, if that was the intent of the visit, at least Amanda did her best to remain inconspicuous, exiting the restaurant through the back door and making sure to shield her face from the cameras.

The paparazzi still got enough footage of her as it was, as you can see for yourself in the video. And it was more than enough to confirm that Amanda is looking good, seemingly staying healthy and focused on her recovery.

The mere fact that she hasn’t been seen or heard of in almost 4 months is proof of that, though she did reach out to her fans in March to show them a self-portrait she was really proud of.