Friends are worried star is completely going off the rails

Sep 14, 2012 12:55 GMT  ·  By

Amanda Bynes is slowly becoming the new Lindsay Lohan in the blogosphere. The once incredibly popular actress has been arrested on suspicion of DUI on a couple of occasions after reportedly being involved in hit and runs. She’s now been photographed smoking pot behind the wheel.

That’s not even the worst part, as TMZ reports: she’s also driving on a suspended license, stemming from the aforementioned arrests.

“Amanda Bynes was driving aimlessly for hours Tuesday, while smoking out of what appears to be a marijuana pipe and tooling around LA on a suspended license,” TMZ reports.

It also has photos of Amanda inhaling from the pipe that is designed to look like a regular cigarette lighter, as well as shots from inside the car.

“Amanda started her journey at Baja Fresh in the San Fernando Valley, where she smoked from the pipe in the restaurant parking lot and ate tacos. She then went to a spa, where she spent 3 hours,” TMZ writes.

“We're told Amanda then drove without purpose for several hours, sometimes cutting off other drivers and violating various traffic laws. Amanda ended up at Home Depot, where she again took a hit from the pipe in the parking lot,” adds the same media outlet.

Her driver’s license was suspended on August 25, while she’s being investigated for the alleged hit and runs.

Word online has it that both authorities and friends are worried for the star who, at this point, represents a danger both to herself and to other drivers.

A report from April this year claimed that Amanda had been having serious issues after realizing her acting career had reached a dead end.

When the movie offers stopped coming in, she turned to drinking and recreational drug use to shut out the reality of it all, hanging out with the wrong crowd and basically throwing all caution to the wind.

Considering that Bynes herself denied ever getting behind the wheel drunk even though there are at least a couple of videos online showing her doing just that, it’s interesting to think of what she might say of this latest incident she finds herself involved in.