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<i>By Elizabeth Snead</i><br>
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This week Mischa Barton was hospitalized at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center under an involuntary psychiatric hold (also known as a 5150) by the Los Angeles Police Department.<br>
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Shades of Britney Spears' famous freak-out.<br>
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But Mischa's beginning was so promising. How did this happen to a young, beautiful and talented actress?<br>
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We got the first hint of her hard-partying ways in May 2007 when she was rushed to the hospital from a Malibu beach party, reportedly for a reaction to cold medicine. Later that year, she was arrested on suspicion of DUI and pot possession and received a fine and three years of unsupervised parole.<br>
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Lets look back at Mischa Bartons fall from grace — here we see her with ex-beau Brandon Davis, a.k.a. Greasy Bear — and try to find more clues to her mysterious meltdown.

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By Elizabeth Snead

This week Mischa Barton was hospitalized at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center under an involuntary psychiatric hold (also known as a 5150) by the Los Angeles Police Department.

Shades of Britney Spears' famous freak-out.

But Mischa's beginning was so promising. How did this happen to a young, beautiful and talented actress?

We got the first hint of her hard-partying ways in May 2007 when she was rushed to the hospital from a Malibu beach party, reportedly for a reaction to cold medicine. Later that year, she was arrested on suspicion of DUI and pot possession and received a fine and three years of unsupervised parole.

Lets look back at Mischa Bartons fall from grace — here we see her with ex-beau Brandon Davis, a.k.a. Greasy Bear — and try to find more clues to her mysterious meltdown.

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