Report: Amanda Bynes Could Be Confined, Treated for a Year

Dave Kotinsky/Getty Images(LOS ANGELES) — TMZ reports that Amanda Bynes could be involuntarily confined for up to a year if her doctors successfully secure a so-called LPS hold on the troubled actress. The gossip site says her doctors are trying to get a judge to do just that, after Bynes began exhibiting troubling behavior following the recent expiration of the conservatorship secured by her parents.

According to TMZ, the LPS hold could force the actress to confinement — and to take psychiatric medication — for up to a year. A similar, but shorter hold was placed on the actress more than a year ago, after she was caught sparking a fire in a driveway and accidentally dousing her dog with gasoline.

Following a 72-hour psychiatric hold that began on Friday evening, Tamar Arminak, a lawyer for Bynes’ family, confirmed to ABC News Monday that Bynes will remain hospitalized for another two weeks. The 28-year-old actress arrived at the Las Encinas Hospital for a three-day stay after arriving in Los Angeles from New York late last week, Arminak added.

Bynes’ parents first expressed concern on Friday, the same day their daughter went on a troublesome Twitter rant.

“My clients are very concerned about their daughter,” Arminak told ABC News in a statement. “Despite what is being reported, they are doing everything they can to help Amanda.”

Bynes spent the week in New York after flying in last week from California, where she was arrested for DUI on September 29, according to authorities. She is due in court on October 23 and is expected to enter a plea on the DUI.

While under her parents’ conservatorship, the actress reportedly entered treatment, which she left in December of 2013, and enrolled in a fashion school from which she reportedly parted ways amid reports of increasingly erratic behavior. 

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