Amanda Bynes’ Paper profile: Sobriety, fashion career goals, and inspiring words for others

In an honest interview with Paper magazine, Amanda Bynes makes a comeback and opens up about her struggles with drug abuse and body image.

Amanda Bynes is back! The former actress appeared on the cover of Paper magazine, and safe to say we learned a lot from this interview. Bynes gets really real about where she’s been the past few years and why she left acting, and we have collected some of the most shocking and powerful moments from that interview.

Amanda Bynes is going to college.

It looks like Bynes has been doing a lot to better herself and focus on her goals these past few years, and we are totally here for that. She is taking classes at the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising in Los Angeles where she is working on getting her Associate’s degree in Merchandise Product Development. Then, she wants to continue on to get her Bachelor’s degree.

She also said she was surprised at how she’s learning to like math, talking about a course she’s taking and saying, “It’s a class on markup percentage, markup dollar, retail cost and everything about selling your product. I never really liked math before, but I like this class.”

She helped get Channing Tatum started in his career.

According to Bynes, she was largely responsible for Channing Tatum getting cast alongside her in She’s the Man. She said that “I totally fought for Channing [to get cast in] that movie because he wasn’t famous yet. He’d just done a Mountain Dew commercial and I was like, ‘This guy’s a star — every girl will love him!’

Bynes explains that the producers argued that he was too much older than her, but she won out in the end. And, we all know that Tatum is a well-known star now, so she was definitely right about that.

She struggled with drug addiction, especially with Adderall.

In the interview, Bynes gets very frank about being a star and how her marijuana use led to trying other drugs later on. She says that she began to abuse Adderall. This drug abuse and body image issues combined caused her to go into some dark, depressed months.

She explained that when she was filming the movie Easy A that “I literally couldn’t stand my appearance in that movie and I didn’t like my performance. I was absolutely convinced I needed to stop acting after seeing it.”

She’s been sober for around four years and regrets some of her past actions.

In the interview, Bynes also gets really candid about how she made many mistakes during the time of her life when she quit acting and was struggling with drugs, referencing many tweets she made against other celebrities during that time. She says that “I’m really ashamed and embarrassed with the things I said. I can’t turn back time but if I could, I would. And I’m so sorry to whoever I hurt and whoever I lied about because it truly eats away at me.”

She also told Paper that she has been sober for around four years and that her parents really helped her.

Fashion has become her new passion, and she looks forward to the future.

Now that she’s not acting anymore, Bynes has found a new passion to pursue, and her instructors at school say she is an amazing student.

And, Bynes is looking forward to what comes next.

“I have no fear of the future. I’ve been through the worst and came out the other end and survived it so I just feel like it’s only up from here.” And, she is planning to return to acting at some point.

Bynes also has some words of advice for others who are struggling.

She gave some words of advice to anyone who might find themselves in a similar position that she was in saying, “My advice to anyone who is struggling with substance abuse would be to be really careful because drugs can really take a hold of your life.”

It’s good to see Amanda Bynes doing so much better and focusing on positive things in her life! We can’t wait to see what’s next for the actress and applaud her for her sobriety and new outlook on life.