Mischa Barton is opening up for the first time in nearly a decade after starring on The O.C. about her breakdown and the pressure she felt at 17 from being on the hit show.
"We thought, 'Work hard, play hard,'" she tells People magazine of her teenage years on the hit Fox series.
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By 2007, the final year that The O.C. aired, Barton, now age 27, was arrested for a DUI. In 2009, the actress was placed into Los Angeles' Cedars-Sinai Medical Center psychiatric ward after she "blacked out under the influence of a sedative" and threatened suicide. Saying of that time, "It was a full-on breakdown. I was under enormous pressure."
Barton -- who is returning to acting with her movie I Will Follow You Into The Dark and the TV pilot The Gutsy Frog where she stars alongside Frankie Jonas -- tells the magazine that it was this incident that made her finally...
"We thought, 'Work hard, play hard,'" she tells People magazine of her teenage years on the hit Fox series.
Related Pics: TV Cast Reunions
By 2007, the final year that The O.C. aired, Barton, now age 27, was arrested for a DUI. In 2009, the actress was placed into Los Angeles' Cedars-Sinai Medical Center psychiatric ward after she "blacked out under the influence of a sedative" and threatened suicide. Saying of that time, "It was a full-on breakdown. I was under enormous pressure."
Barton -- who is returning to acting with her movie I Will Follow You Into The Dark and the TV pilot The Gutsy Frog where she stars alongside Frankie Jonas -- tells the magazine that it was this incident that made her finally...
- 10/16/2013
- Entertainment Tonight
Ten years ago, the hit TV series The O.C. made 17-year-old Mischa Barton an instant "it" girl. Within a few years, however, she was the talk of Hollywood for a different reason as her partying grew out of control. "We thought, 'Work hard, play hard,' " she says of those years. In 2007, she was arrested for DUI. Then in 2009, shortly after her parents attempted an intervention, she blacked out under the influence of a sedative and landed in the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center psychiatric ward under an involuntary 5150 hold after she threatened to kill herself. "It was a full-on breakdown," she tells People,...
- 10/16/2013
- by Liz McNeil
- PEOPLE.com
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