America’s favorite transplanted headcase, Bai Ling, was arrested earlier this week for shoplifting at LAX.

Why did she need to steal $16 worth of celeb mags and batteries, you ask?

The stress of breaking up with her boyfriend right before Valentines Day.

The 37-year-old actress and scenester exclusively tells E! News that she split with her new boyfriend Wednesday before she was scheduled to fly from LAX to New Mexico to begin shooting a film, turning it into an “emotionally crazy” day for her.

She was dealing with the “huge problem of breaking up [before] Valentine’s Day” when she was arrested for shoplifting, Ling said, adding, simply, “Wrong boyfriend.”

Awww … so I guess the batteries were for her dildo.

Stop the presses!

Bai Ling has done something immature and stupid.

The actress was arrested yesterday at LAX for stealing $16 worth of goods from a gift shop — two tabloid magazines and batteries. She was placed under citizen’s arrest by a shop employee. Can you still do that? Make a citizen’s arrest? I need to start incorporating that into my daily routine. Wake up, shower, have a muffin, make a citizen’s arrest.

A “cooperative but crying” Bai was taken by Airport Police to the station, where she was booked for theft.

It’s a bird!

It’s a plane!

It’s …

Melissa Joan Hart?

She’s huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuge!