Mischa Barton has been drinking since she was just 14-years-old, her stylist has claimed. The actress was placed under psychiatric hold on 15 July after a reported meltdown but checked out of Los Angeles’ Cedars-Sinai Medical Center on Monday. “She was on the path to self-destruction - it was just a question of when she was going to be ready to do something about it,” stylist Stacey Kives told Heat magazine. “Mischa has been drinking since she was about 14, and she doesn’t drink to have fun any more – she drinks not to feel anything. But I think this last episode has scared her straight. She finally sounds like she’s seeing reality. Mischa’s finally willing to get some help. She was partying so hard before. Whenever a close friend would say, ‘Mischa, I’m worried about you,’ she would distance herself. “It was just a matter of time before she hit rock bottom. Now she wants her friends and family around her. It’s a good sign.” Yesterday Ashton Kutcher, the executive producer of Mischa's new show The Beautiful Life, insisted she was 'doing great'.
Just days before her admission to hospital handbag.com interviewed Mischa at the opening of the Harrods' sale. Watch the video and see if you can see any signs of what was about to follow.
