By: Ellie Kam on August 27th, 2009 at 4:08 pm

Mischa Barton recently sat down with Time Out New York to give her first post-psychotic break-down interview. She spent most of her time there blaming her mental melt-down on her wisdom teeth. Mischa told the mag,
I was traveling abroad for contract stuff and I went through a terrible surgery—a wisdom tooth surgery, all four removed. It was a nightmare. I’ve never had surgery before—it all went wrong and I had to have a second surgery and it almost delayed shooting because it was a nightmare to me, because I couldn’t deal with the thought of not getting there on time.
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 show, travel and then this fairly routine surgery that went wrong—it’s still just healing. But I had to get through it without proper painkillers because I couldn’t take those during work.
I’m not sure I’m capable of a full-on nervous breakdown, but it was pretty bad. It didn’t last that long. It was more about the pain. I have a newfound respect for people who have chronic pain. I started getting migraines.
I just wanted to get back to work. The doctor told me I was lucky I didn’t lose feeling in my lips and face, which would have been horrifying and couldn’t act properly.
Mischa’s mom was the one who involuntarily checked her into the psych ward. After a few days in the loony bin, Mischa was able to get back to somewhat normal and return to work on the set of her CW show, The Beautiful Life.
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