US actress Amanda Bynes has spoken in an interview about her crash and the associated years of drug use. She could not remember the lyrics for her roles and announced a few years ago via Twitter that she wanted to stop acting. "After that I took more drugs, and it has become a dark and sad world for me," the 32-year-old told the US magazine "Paper".

Bynes was noticed until 2014 by strange behavior in public several times. She was treated for several weeks in a psychiatric hospital because she is said to have ignited a gas container in a driveway. A judge temporarily transferred guardianship to her mother.

But she has not taken drugs for four years, wants to shoot movies again and start a fashion brand, Bynes said. "I'm not afraid of the future, I went through a deep valley and made it and survived, it can only go up from here."

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Amanda Bynes: "American Sweetheart" of the nineties

With her long blond hair and broad smile, Bynes was once the "American sweetheart" of the nineties. At the age of ten, she was signed to the US children's channel Nickelodeon, two years later she received her own program: "The Amanda Show" became a success story. Bynes won the Kids Choice Award four years in a row - an Adelung on US television.

One of her biggest successes in 2003 was the movie "What Girls Want". It followed teen comedy on teen comedy, 2007, she was among the best-earning Hollywood stars under 21. According to Forbes list Bynes was subscribed to the clumsy, chubby blonde, who may finally kiss her high school sweetheart.