Mischa was on The View today and I missed it.  I was home, downloading pictures of Posh Spice and avoiding 9/11 coverage because it still makes me cry, when I could have been watching Mischa instead.  This is so devastating.  She gave up all the details on getting committed under an involuntary 5150 a couple months ago.  You know, in print she’s already talked about her wisdom teeth and how having them removed led to her being committed into a mental health facility, but on The View she was really, really going in circles.  Joy Behar even kind of questioned her on it.  At least, that’s what I hear.  I didn’t get to see it myself.  Because no one told me she was going to be on.

Let’s see if we can piece together what really happened based on her quotes during today’s interview:

• “I mean, really, it was blown out of proportion, so it’s kind of silly now to be talking about it because I’m so fine now, but it was really just a bad time for me.”

• “It was sort of one of those things that was like a perfect storm. Everything happened at once.” 

• “Right, I mean, it was just … I was overwhelmed.  I had too much work going on. I had a surgery for my wisdom teeth that went really badly. I had been in the hospital. I had two surgeries on my wisdom teeth. I had four taken out and they had gotten it really badly wrong. They had to drill into my jaw and I was just in really excruciating pain.” 

• “I had an infection and a dry socket and I woke up on a Sunday morning and there was no doctor available. I was trying to take the minimum amount of painkillers and get through it because I had to go to work soon and I was getting ready to go do this show, The Beautiful Life, and meanwhile I still had a schedule to travel. 

• “I was going to Europe. I was going to London. I had things to do and I was prepping to do photo shoots and I was just overwhelmed. I had so much work to do and the surgery had gone so badly for me. And I think that I was just starting to feel completely overwhelmed. It was just too much to have this surgery go so wrong.” 

(In response to Joy Behar wanting to know why she received psychiatric care for a medical issue:)

•  ”When they take you into the hospital for something when it goes really wrong if you’re having a meltdown and you say something like ‘I feel like I want to die’ … they start injecting you with things to calm down. Like I’m petrified of needles. Like absolutely petrified … you can’t come anywhere … I had my blood drawn once in my life for my insurance.  I just figure that if you hit rock bottom like that … and you’re around people, you know, you realize I’m nothing like these people.” 

Well, as long as Mischa isn’t like those people.  I know dental pain can be pretty excruciating and I am willing to accept her excuse.  Actually, I’m willing to accept her excuse because it puts her back in not-mentally-ill, safe-for-me-to-make-fun-of-her territory.  Rejoice!

Mischa Barton was out partying Tuesday night — have I mentioned what a bad idea this is for someone fresh out of rehab? — and looking quite svelte again.  More than just partying, she was partying with Gossip Girl’s Taylor Momsen who is just a teen statistic waiting to happen.  Taylor Momsen is Mischa Barton seven years ago.

It’s like the aliens came and extracted my Mischa Hate.  Ever since she went a little nutso, I’m so much more forgiving of her choices — even that “Mom on The Wonder Years” getup she’s wearing in the top picture.  Oh, where is my passion?  Time for a new target, obviously.

Speaking of the top picture, that was Mischa on August 20th.  The bottom picture where she’s wearing her slutty flight attendant uniform, was taken Tuesday.  Looks like someone has been hitting the ladies’ room gym in the past couple of weeks.

Mischa Barton got out of the mental ward and on to the set of The Beautiful Life so quickly that homegirl hasn’t even taken a moment to shed some light on what’s going on in her life.  She spoke to Time Out New York about her hospitalization and explained that all the trouble she experienced lately was from a wisdom tooth removal gone bad. Apparently Mischa had to avoid “proper painkillers” because she was working. That was compounded by the fact that she had problems in other areas of her life, and she doesn’t really get in to specifics about that, “I was down in the dumps about everything there for a while. Sometimes you have to hit rock bottom about things and have to get the most stressed out just to feel better again. I got completely stressed out and couldn’t handle everything, and now I feel really in control.”

Wisdom teeth, you say? Wouldn’t the removal of wisdom teeth keep you looking too chipmunk faced to work in the first place, thus leaving ample time for recovery? Yeah. I’ll file that one with “mercury poisoning” and “exhaustion” under the list of really lame celebrity excuses I don’t ever want to hear again. Oh, and if you did really just lose it there for awhile, you should own it. Having that kinda street cred would be the best thing to happen to your career since The OC.

I posted pics last week of Mischa falling down the stairs of her trailer while on the set of The Beautiful Life.  Here’s the video.  I love how she’s just so cool and collected and texting within milliseconds of almost eating pavement.  She’s such a professional.  A tumbletastic legend, really.

Mischa Barton continues to film and fall down flights of stairs on the set of The Beautiful Life.  You may be aware that I’ll be talking about TBL every day until the premiere in hopes that I can help gather up enough viewers to get two episodes aired.  It’s an ambitious goal, I’m aware.

Check in the gallery for a time lapse of Mischa trying to walk in her Ugg-lies and a pic taken a couple hours later where Ashton Kutcher is stifling a laugh behind Barton’s back.  That, or he was just covering up his nose to block the bourbon stench.

Like how Jesus walked on water, Mischa walks on air on the set of her new show, The Beautiful Life.  I feel like I have to mention Mischa’s upcoming show every day so that no one forgets to watch.  It premiers on September 16th.  Maybe I can talk Beet into letting me do a live blog of the show.  I figure it will probably be cancelled after the first episode, so shouldn’t we enjoy the magic while it lasts?

I have many, many pictures in the gallery — there can never be enough — including Mischa trying to Heimlich Maneuver the sanity out of a costar, Mischa trying to appear unaware of the presence of cameras as well as Mischa sucking on her ciggies, her finger, an iced tea, a key grip’s dick.  (I just wanted to see if you were paying attention.)

Here’s the bottom line:  This show is going to be epically tragic.  There isn’t even a question.  I.  Can’t.  Wait.

I hate to break this to Wendie, but it looks like Mischa Barton might soon be off limits again.

Friends of the actress fear that she’s returned to work too soon after leaving the hospital and speculate that she’s on the verge of another, possibly more serious, breakdown. According to one friend, Mischa is “just not herself,” and another reports that she often “cries for no reason.”

Barton returned to the set of her new TV series The Beautiful Life a mere two days after being released from the hospital. She was involuntarily admitted after friends reported concerns that she was contemplating suicide.

All cattiness aside, it seems as if she’s been teetering on the edge for a while now and it won’t take much for her to stumble over that final step. Although she definitely looks better in the photo above (taken August 2nd) looks can be deceiving. Two days after a hospital release is just not enough time to safely recover.