Mischa Barton blames recent meltdown on an infected wisdom tooth. Really?
What really happened to Mischa Barton that caused her to end up in Cedars-Sinai Medical Center for psychiatric evaluation earlier this year?
A wisdom tooth.
"I went through a tough spot where everything compounded on me, and it was like a perfect storm, like everything was happening to me at once," the actress, 23, told Time Out New York. She was traveling abroad "for contract stuff" and then had a "terrible" wisdom tooth surgery.
"I had to get through it without proper painkillers because I couldn't take those during work," she said. "So it's been a nightmare."
She says it's only now starting to heal.
OK. So it's nice to know that even celebrities have problems with their teeth. But I personally have never called 911 for dental reasons, have you?
"Sometimes you have to hit rock bottom about things and have to get the most stressed out just to feel better again," Barton says. "I got completely stressed out and couldn't handle everything, and now I feel really in control."
Thank God. Now put your dentist on speed dial, not the cops, OK?
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