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Parents say Amanda Bynes is a paranoid pothead who’s draining her bank account

LOS ANGELES — Amanda Bynes is a paranoid pothead obsessed with plastic surgery and thinks she’s being constantly “watched,” her parents said yesterday in a desperate bid to get control of the former child star.

Lynn and Rick Bynes listed the disturbing details of their daughter’s descent hours before Amanda postponed a hearing seeking her freedom from a psych ward so the medication she has begun taking could have a chance to kick in, TMZ.com reported.

The parents said Bynes is “a substantial risk to herself, to others and to property.” In a court petition to gain temporary conservatorship over the former Disney child star, they gave a litany of her looniness:

* Bynes left New York last Saturday, somehow turned up in California, and “when we asked how she arrived here . . . she said she ‘cabbed it.’ ”

* She is “extremely paranoid” and so fearful of hidden cameras taking her picture that “she would cover smoke alarms with towels, tape windows shut and cover her car’s dashboard with cardboard and tape.”

* Before she was ordered to a psychiatric ward Monday, she had “no residence in California. We believe she is essentially homeless.”

* She’s obsessed with feeling that she and others are “ugly” and need potentially dangerous surgery.

“She talks incessantly about cosmetic surgeries that she wants completed. She also encourages her mother to have plastic surgeries,” the petition says.

* She’s draining her bank account, possibly to buy drugs. She has written $63,000 in checks since May and withdrew $200,000 in June and July.

After hearing the petition, Ventura County Superior Court Judge Glen Reiser said he wanted to talk face-to-face with Bynes.

Reiser ruled that since Bynes is held by a 14-day psychiatric order — because she allegedly set fire to an elderly homeowner’s driveway Monday — there is no rush to rule on the parents’ conservatorship bid. He put off a ruling until Aug. 9.

More disturbing disclosures about Bynes came yesterday from Ana Rivera, a model who said she met Bynes on a New York street last November and became a friend. Rivera told Radar Online that Bynes told her in February how she was lured on a blind date by a man she believed was offering her cocaine, but apparently gave her the date-rape drug GHB instead.

“She sent me a text to tell me she got ‘roofied’ one night,” Rivera said, adding that Bynes then changed her phone number.