Update (Wednesday, March 23 at 9:50am): Amanda Bynes has released a statement, given to People magazine. In it she thanked her fans, her lawyer David A. Esquibias, and her parents, one of whom acted as her conservator over the previous nine years.
“In the last several years, I have been working hard to improve my health so that I can live and work independently, and I will continue to prioritize my well-being in this next chapter,” she wrote. “I am excited about my upcoming endeavors — including my fragrance line — and look forward to sharing more when I can.”
The original article continues below.
On Tuesday, a California court deemed Amanda Bynes free from her conservatorship.
TMZ reported on Monday that the case’s judge had issued a tentative ruling: The conservatorship was “no longer required.” There was no objection from Bynes’s mother, Lynn Organ, who had served as her conservator since 2013. Her parents petitioned the court to place the former child star under the financial setup after a series of incidents, and Bynes has since gotten sober, graduated from the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising, and said she was diagnosed with bipolar disorder.
Last month, when Bynes filed to end the legal arrangement that had controlled her finances for nearly nine years, her mother’s attorney said that she “intended [it] to be temporary,” adding, “Lynn is extremely happy and thrilled and proud of Amanda and ready to terminate this conservatorship based on the hard work Amanda has done.”
Bynes’s lawyer, David A. Esquibias, told Variety that he and his client were excited for the conservatorship’s end. “We’re all excited and we’re all anxiously looking forward to Amanda living a life as a private and normal citizen,” he said.
In recent weeks, Bynes joined Instagram, where she’s posted about today’s hearing, documented her face tattoo’s removal, and advertised a forthcoming fragrance.
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