As Julie recently reported, Mischa Barton had returned back to work on “The Beautiful Life,” just two days after a stint in the psyche ward under an involuntary 5150 hold.

Just as Julie, myself, our commenters, and anyone with even 1/16th of a brain and knowledge of what was going on with Mischa presumed, it wasn’t a good idea.

Considering Mischa was returning to work on a show where she had to act out situations that were negatively affecting her mentally, emotionally, and physically in her actual life I don’t see how the following recent statement from her friend is surprising:

“There still are issues. She’s on the verge of another breakdown — one I think could be even more serious than the last one. … she cries for no reason. Mischa’s just not herself at all. I think she’s gone back to work too soon.”

Really, you think?

I think it’s so sad that here we have a young girl who is obviously having a problem and we have the costars and publicists of the show saying she’s handling things ‘just fine’. Just fine? She was just released out a hospital under a 5150 hold. Do these people not know what that means? Since they obviously don’t a 5150 hold is ‘the act of involuntarily confining a person deemed to have a mental disorder that makes them a danger to him or her self, and/or others and/or gravely disabled.’

So she’s deemed to have a mental disorder and to be a danger to herself and society by a professional doctor and some peon celebrity expects me to believe she’s ‘just fine’ two days later? Hogwash.

I’m not trying to be rude here, but I think we can all agree that Mischa’s career was flushed down the toilet when The O.C. ended. I think we can also agree she isn’t a very good actress. I think she needs to give it a break, go somewhere and rest and get herself better.

The producers of the show shouldn’t have to be told that Mischa needs to be replaced for her own good. It’s just too bad most people involved are looking out for the good of themselves when a life is possibly at stake here. I was going to say they should be ashamed of themselves, but I know they aren’t. The thought of replacing Mischa for her own good opposed to keeping things rolling and making money isn’t even a thought in any of their heads. This is a matter of the show going on and sadly for Mischa, in the eyes of everyone involved in The Beautiful Life, her personal problems don’t matter nor do they need to be dealt with in a proper manner.

I can’t help but think we’re going to end up with another Britney Spears type situation on our hands.

I hope for Mischa’s sake she does whatever she has to do to get herself back to her own idea of a great life.

Best of luck Mischa.

Jordasche Bledsoe

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