Mischa Bartob looks fantastic pumping in her sexy leggy black stocking with her friend in West Hollywood on Feb 4, 2010.

Mischa Barton - Pumping gas in West Hollywood

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The former O.C. starlet, Mischa Barton was spotted running errands in Santa Monica, first stopping at the DMV and then shopping for health food!
Hopefully she’s on a new diet plan?

Mischa Barton out and about in Los Angeles

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Mischa Barton badly bombed during filming of “Law & Order: SVU” on Monday, according to an insider – and more of her infamous hard partying may be to blame.

After reports surfaced yesterday about the troubled starlet continually forgetting lines while filming a scene with Chris Meloni and Mariska Hargitay – she played a hooker in her guest spot – our source acknowledged that Mischa’s been rocking out all over NYC.

“She’s a regular at Antik,” the snitch says of the downtown hot spot. “She usually comes late every Thursday and leaves late. A lot of times she’ll even go to another club after she leaves.”

While that may seem like a normal night for many a 23-year-old, it might not be the best idea for Barton: The actress has a history of big-time partying that came hand-in-hand with substance abuse.

In July, she was admitted to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center on involuntary psychiatric hold after reportedly having a drug- and alcohol-fueled meltdown in her L.A. apartment.

She had an earlier stint in rehab after being arrested for DUI in December 2007.

A rep for Barton said, “Everything’s going swimmingly on set,” but our insider insists that’s not the case.

“She’s been ‘off’ at work, and I’m not surprised, judging from how hard she parties,” our source says. “It’s scary to think what will happen if she keeps going out like she does.”

Perhaps the wayward starlet should have been home on Thursday night studying her lines (she apparently had only seven). After all, her gig on “SVU” was going to be the comeback she needed.

Ever since her show “The Beautiful Life” was canceled by CW after just two episodes, Barton hasn’t had much work.

“People close to her were hoping this would get her back on track,” the source says. “But it looks like she’s going to need yet another chance.”

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Mischa Barton was recently interviewed by the New York Observer and had some interesting things to say. Mischa has a reason to be on the offensive, if for no other reason than to get a break from having to be on the defensive lately. She has had to repeatedly explain and apologize for a DUI arrest last year; a series of roles in independent films (remember You and I, the t.A.T.u. biopic?) that haven’t gone as she hoped; an alleged involuntary psychiatric hold at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in July; accusatory tabloid headlines screaming “Cellulite!”

Mischa is busy filming the CW’s The Beautiful Life: TBL, in which she plays Sonja Stone, a has-been, pill-popping fashion model trying to reclaim her place on top.

On her hospital stay:
“I’m getting sick of answering questions about it,” she said, regarding her hospital stay, as she lit her cigarette and placed an ashtray on the couch. “I just had a bad time of year and now it’s all over and done with, and I’m just very happy to be feeling happy again and back on top of it and not so worried about everything. It was just too much to handle for me at the time.”

“One stay in the hospital was turned into this huge ‘She’s lost her marbles!’ thing, and people look at me like I’m unstable and they should probably cross the street when they see me,” said Ms. Barton, with a roll of her heavily made-up eyes. The actress’ eye roll is one of her distinct assets—used to express frustration, sadness, flirting and even joy, if necessary.

“It was more than just a wisdom-tooth surgery,” Ms. Barton said, repeating what she’s told Time Out, The View and other media outlets. “I understand that people think, ‘Oh, wisdom-tooth surgery, that’s so routine and that’s bullshit.’ But for me it wasn’t routine and it was a mess. I was in more pain than I had ever had in my life. I was getting Novocaine shot into my teeth every day. They drilled into my jaw. I almost lost feeling in my face.”

On her weight gain:
“I went through my teen years in the press, and they got to say whatever they wanted while I was growing up,” said Ms. Barton. “So I’ve gained a few pounds for a little while and now I’m working out again every day. It’s like, the ‘cellulite’ will go away and I will be skinny again. Things happen to you for two minutes, but in the press it’s permanent.”

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Mischa Barton’s proving that you can take the party out of the girl, but you can’t take the girl out of the party.

Just days after getting released from her forced hospitalization on July 15, Barton was spotted Sunday night at NYC’s All Points West festival.

And the former “OC” starlet certainly wasn’t making any effort to fly under the radar.

Instead, she paired a black, strappy, backless minidress with hot pink and black Christian Louboutin stilettos, as she partied alongside DJ Daisy Lowe and designer Richie Rich, the Daily Mail reports.

It’s a curious return to the party scene for a girl who has spent most of her time recently in “involuntary psychiatric hold.”
Upon getting sprung from her stay, she immediately dove back into work filming the new TV series “The Beautiful Life,” in which she, curiously, plays a model-turned-drug addict.

But just because she was out and about doesn’t mean she was up to her old tricks.

Sources told RadarOnline that the 23-year-old actress drank only water and smoked cigarettes while she listened to an acoustic set by Peter Bjorn at the Cooper Square Hotel.

During the party, Barton told OK! Magazine, “I’m feeling great. I’m really happy,” and even made an early exit to go home and watch HBO’s “True Blood.”

She told the mag that “The Beautiful Life” is “going really well…I’m excited,” and her costars seem to agree.

Actress Sara Paxton told People, “We had our first read-through and we’re all so very excited to have her back. She’s such a great girl. We really didn’t talk about everything that’s been going on. It was really all work.”

Filming for the upcoming CW series, which also stars Elle MacPherson and Corbin Bleu, was put on hold while Barton was still being treated in Los Angeles.

The show, which films at the Kaufman studios in Astoria, is set to premiere in September.

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Mischa Barton’s co-workers are glad to have her back on the job.

“She looks great!” Ben Hollingsworth, Barton’s “Beautiful Life” co-star, told us Wednesday at The Gates. As we reported Thursday, Barton’s close pals think the actress — isn’t ready to return to work after recent involuntary psychiatric care. But Hollingsworth disagrees.

“She’s ready to work, and seems healthy and ready to go,” he said after the cast assembled Wednesday for table reads. “She’s her own person and can make her own choices.”

Added castmate Nico Tortorella at the BlackBerry Smartphone launch: “I’m really happy that she’s doing well. I’m not worried about her.”

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When Mischa Barton was admitted to Cedars Sinai on Wednesday she was placed there under an involuntary psychiatric hold. That hold lasts 72 hours which means she could have been released as early as Saturday afternoon. She wasn’t and so someone there must think she still presents a danger to herself or to others. The rumors and stories that came out over the weekend suggested or implied or speculated that she had gone on a 3 day coke bender and that her friends were actually the ones who called the police and not Mischa herself.

The reasons given for the bender were that she couldn’t find love and that she was running out of money. Well, if you are running out of money I think the last thing you would want to do is spend it all on coke. I know, I know, she is an addict, I’m just saying that what you and I think of as running out of money does not probably have the same definition as her.

Meanwhile production on her new television show has been pushed back from July 22 to the 31st. The show, which is called Beautiful Life is about a bunch of models. Mischa was supposed to play an older, more bitter model who is trying to remain relevant and get work in the face of younger competition. I’m guessing that even with the delayed start that Mischa probably isn’t going to make the first day of shooting. She sounds like she could use at least 30 days, if not longer in rehab and even when she gets out of rehab, if you are a producer of the show, are you going to take a chance on her? I think Mischa just needs to focus on getting better and not try and delude herself into thinking she is ok or healthy enough to start filming a show every day and all the pressure that accompanies it.

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Mischa Barton — the formerly willowy star of “The O.C.” — was taken away by police and hospitalized under California’s involuntary psychiatric-hold law just hours before she was due to fly to New York for the premiere of her movie, “Homecoming”.

Police were called to Barton’s Los Angeles home at 3 p.m. Wednesday to assist her with a “medical issue,” according to “Access Hollywood.”

Cops took her to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where she was hospitalized under Section 5150 of the California Welfare & Institutions Code, which allows authorities to hold a person for up to 72 hours if they present a danger to themselves or to others.

Barton, 23, looked bloated and almost unrecognizable at a public appearance last week, which her reps blamed on the removal of a wisdom tooth.

The once-scary-skinny starlet was arrested for DUI and marijuana possession in LA after driving in two lanes during a break from the movie’s location work in Pittsburgh last year. She later checked into rehab.

It was reported that Barton would attend the premiere after we’d been assured by publicist R. Couri Hay that producers “Bingo [Gubelmann] and Austin [Stark] are hand-holding her from 4:30 to the premiere and through to the after-party at Pink Elephant, as she realizes the film is important to her.”

Stark said, “She was really professional and worked hard. It’s a shame she can’t come out and promote the movie. She did a great job.”

Barton’s publicist told People, “Police were involved due to Ms. Barton’s celebrity status to safely transfer her to medical treatment as per doctor’s orders.” The rep said Barton was now “OK” and “resting.”

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