The Twisted World of Mischa Barton | Deep Dive

I'm Misha for me it was always important to me to have a normal life I was 16. I'm a person I'm an actress moved to LA for that role and you know if I hadn't done the OC I'm sure I would be in college right now but well she looked too odd and Bloated and was whisked off to a psych ward um [Music] you know last year she was arrested for DUI and for marijuana possession checked into rehab yeah but people want to be like you young ladies want to be like you and that's one of her own shots again hindsight is 20 20 but an entire team of people thought that they knew basketball I think there's a lot of misconceptions about me over the years that's what I'm wanting to clear up here drugging you to keep you vertical and then they 51.50 I don't think there's much that you could do with that storyline anyway now you're scary especially since I'm dead [Music] hi I'm Shelby and welcome to Shelby search bar a series on Deep dive where I take you all on a journey through the world's largest database the internet and present stories to you that I find interesting today we are taking it back to the early 2000s and diving into the it girl of 2003 Misha Barton Misha Barton Rose to fame almost overnight because of her role as Marissa Cooper on the hit show of the OC after leaving the OC in its third season Misha's life seemed to spiral downward as she was relentlessly targeted by Paparazzi and the media but behind the scenes Misha had a team around her that didn't have her best interests at heart treating her as a commodity going as far as medicating her just to keep her working everything would come to a head with a 5150 hold and this is just a small part of what we will be uncovering today so grab your floaty and let's dive in but first today's episode of Deep dive is sponsored by sea geek if you haven't heard of sea geek they are the number one rated ticketing app with over 28 million downloads sea geek has more than 70 000 events every single day including concerts sports events festivals and more one of my favorite memories was getting to see Kesha live 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mother Nala Barton and her English Father Paul Barton Misha would live in England until she was around the age of five years old that's when her father Paul moved the entire family over to New York City for a job opportunity New York is where Misha would discover her love for acting she was generally a very shy and introverted kid but taking theater classes is what really allowed her to come out of her shell and by the age of eight years old Misha scored a role on the Off-Broadway play slabs where the New York Times would praise Misha's performance she would continue to appear in various Off-Broadway Productions and when she was nine years old she was the lead role in 12 dreams when Nisha was just 11 years old she made the switch from plays to film and television her film debut was a movie titled lawn dogs in 1997 which was even darker than I could have imagined especially for a young child the synopsis reads as follows when Devin played by Nisha a 10 year old girl forges a friendship with Trent a 21 year old Outsider who mows the neighborhood Lawns things suddenly get very complicated and private this movie was rated R so Misha couldn't even see the movie herself at the premiere how does it feel not to be allowed to see your own film tonight well I knew I wasn't going to be able to see it because it's got a 15 rating and well I would love to be able to see him on the big screen because I suppose I'm not gonna get the chance to so what are you going to do tonight instead I'm not sure I'm probably just gonna go out and have ice cream or something I'm not sure yet what I'm gonna do nothing very interesting because then I'm gonna come back at the end of the film she also appeared multiple times on the soap on my children but Misha's Big Break as a child actor came in 1999 when she appeared in the films Notting Hill and The Sixth Sense after her appearance in The Sixth Sense Misha started to actually get recognized and from what it sounds like from interviews she maybe got teased at school by some of the other kids because of this she switched schools to a professional Arts High School which only helped her to develop her acting skills even more now fast forward to 2003 Misha was 16 going on 17 years old when she appeared in an episode of a show called Fastlane that aired on Fox for just one season but this is where she met Josh Schwartz who was an up-and-coming screenwriter and TV producer Josh wrote and created a pilot called the OC which was picked up by Fox network he was only 26 years old at the time Mickey him the youngest ever creator of a TV show Josh wanted Misha to play the character Marissa Cooper one of the lead female roles in the teen drama but the network wasn't entirely sold on Misha and the role of Marissa almost went to Olivia Wilde in the end Misha secured her big break on the OC the show that would catapult her into stardom the OC began airing in August of 2003 and y'all my middle school self was absolutely obsessed just the intro song Alone had me hooked the show mainly followed a group of teenagers Marissa Ryan played by Ben McKenzie summer played by Rachel Bilson and Seth who was played by Adam Brody but the show also gave layers and story lines to the adults and parents in the show looking back the OC was actually incredibly ahead of its time in regards to a teen drama and it really pushed the boundaries for the early 2000s pretty much right off the bat Marissa overdoses there's romantic drama there's screaming there's crying bikinis and partying with a beautiful backdrop of Southern California beaches there was even a lesbian kissing scene between Olivia Wilde and Nisha that caused quite the controversy at the time the writers of the show do they have all these wonderful ideas for you guys to push the envelope or what um you know I think they don't think about that too much like ahead of time yeah but I think that we like to I mean if we can what we can you know do on television that's still like appropriate for people to be watching and teenagers just to be watching you know because there's sort of like a role model thing that you know want these teenagers to be totally crazy but we want to keep it real for kids don't forget that role model you know the first season of the OC had an average of 9.7 million viewers per episode and was the highest rated new drama for the 2003-2004 TV season it was wildly successful and because of that immediate success it caused the main stars of the OC to become household names overnight you couldn't flip through a teen magazine at the time without seeing Adam Misha Ben or Rachel the OC was truly a cultural phenomenon and was even the inspiration for reality shows such as Laguna Beach and the Real Housewives of Orange County then those shows had their numerous spin-offs that we are still watching to this very day as fun as it was and cool as it was it's Bond all these uh kind of reality TV shows like the real OC and the real Laguna or whatever and then like that's gotten a bit out of control and I don't think that that's supporting anything too positive you know and so for me it's a bit funny because I feel like I almost uh aided the problem for young girls and for that genre now a pattern we have seen all too often here on Deep dive is that when something becomes an instant success the network producers or whoever stands to profit the most they tend to get greedy and it is usually at the expense of the talent in this case the cast of Doc things started to turn sour specifically for Misha Barton while filming season two the first issue that arose was When Rachel Bilson was included as a series regular which was not in the initial plan apparently she wasn't even in the initial credits of the show until around episode 14 of season one in order to include her as a series regular they had to even out the pay of the other cast members and this is according to Nisha the second issue was the insane work hours season one was a whopping 27 episodes long which is a lot of episodes for our first season of a show which meant Misha had a hefty schedule even then but during season two production decided to double up on episodes increasing the workload substantially in a 2021 interview with E news Misha stated that of all of the characters on the show she probably worked the longest hours but the worst part was not Misha being overworked it was the overall toxic work environment on set it's important to keep in mind that Misha was the only teenager actually playing her age everyone else was in their mid to late 20s Misha said there was this sort of General bullying from some of the men on the set and she just did not feel protected by the cast and crew she further stated there were people in the set that were just very mean to her and it just wasn't an ideal environment for a young girl who has just been thrust into stardom to have to deal with now Rachel Bilson saw this 2021 interview with Misha and E news and basically said that is not how she remembered it that she remembers the set environment to be very different than what Misha described we have touched on this Rachel that someone who's 16 17 18 that amount of hours of work pressure at such a young age at the at best you're exhausted and at worst it's overwhelming and chaotic so it kind of breaks my heart a little to not to to know that we knew it was there's a lot of pressure on her but if it was really that bad of a experience that's that's not right for any young person the one thing that I can say is like in one of her first comments she says that I was added last minute after the first season which is actually completely false and not what happened so it's starting out that way I was like well that's misinformation where are we going with this and what is she trying to say which I would actually like to talk to her and find out you know what what her experience was from her perspective because I saw things a little differently now after digging through old interviews from the early 2000s Misha has always made it known that the work environment was not a healthy way for her so she is stuck to the same story for almost two decades now I mean it was a great three years of my life but I do think that like it was time for things to change and it was like an unhealthy work atmosphere if anybody wanted the show or thought the show was going in the wrong direction I would have been one of them and then like you know there were some people who were thought that it was you know we were very happy with it and then like you know Adam had a lot of film offers you couldn't take and so did I and it was just like and our character's writing was getting more and more difficult to act by season three Misha nushi no longer wanted to continue on with the OC she really didn't like the direction her character was going and she was having to turn down huge offers for lead film roles and these were opportunities that she did really want to explore so producers of the OC gave Misha a couple of options she could leave the show in an open-ended way where her character could come back or they could kill off the character entirely Misha wanted to go out with a bang so she said kill my character off and make it as bloody and fiery as you can and they did just that in the season 3 finale now if y'all don't remember this finale it sent shock waves through the nation who knows how many tears were shed on the evening of May 18 2006. the OC only survived one more season after killing off Marissa as the show's ratings had dropped substantially struggled with becoming famous overnight she had stated that the media attention just felt very extreme and invasive especially at such a young age after leaving the OC in 2006 Misha escaped to London for a little while in hopes that the paparazzi would finally give her some space and that things would calm down a bit but quite the opposite would end up happening up until this point Nisha had always been painted in the media as America's sweetheart girl next door but that would all come crashing down when Misha started hitting the LA party scene Paparazzi started targeting Misha like never before and she would become a regular headline on all of the major gossip magazines [Music] [Music] [Applause] [ __ ] [Applause] [Music] Misha's downward spiral began in 2007 2007 is quite the year in pop culture history and we have covered quite a few stories surrounding this era so be sure to check those out anyways Misha was in The It Girl scene she was besties with Nicole Richie she was even feuding with Paris Hilton she called Paris a boyfriend stealer Paris responded saying she doesn't even know who Misha is and all of this feuding appeared to be over Cisco Adler Misha's ex-boyfriend who was spotted going on a date with Paris Hilton shortly after their breakup feuding with Paris Hilton in the early 2000s was honestly just like a rite of passage during this era let's fast forward to Nicole Richie's 2007 Memorial Day barbecue you know the party that had a stipulation on the invitation saying there would be a scale at the front door no girls over a hundred pounds so start starving yourselves now yeah well that same Infamous party would showcase just how dark things had actually gotten from Misha and would bring her substance abuse struggles right into the public eye Misha who is still going through her fairly recent breakup had just returned home from Europe she was apparently sick with bronchitis but she met up with Nicole anyways to help her set up for the barbecue by Nightfall it was reported by TMZ that Misha was rushed from Nicole Richie's Memorial Day party to a local hospital by ambulance at the time reports stated that Misha was having some kind of adverse reaction from mixing alcohol with her antibiotics however a few years later Sophie Monk opened up about saving a celebrity's life at a daytime party in Los Angeles and all of the details point to this story being about Misha and I was walking through the party and they sent me this celebrity and she was like right and I was like what the hell is wrong with her and um so there's like 200 people at this party and all of a sudden I was like she's had too much of something and she starts convulsing like crazy um and all the best friends everyone left the party I mean everyone within five minutes left that party thinking they're gonna get in trouble and I didn't know her and I was like they stripped her off naked ran a shower left her in it and left her in the bathroom naked and everyone left and I said I'm not leaving and I didn't know her and I just said I am not leaving I found a dressing gown in a closet covered it um called the ambulance and she was like like foam coming out of her mouth that just strapped her down she would have died easy um because no one will call the police if they're on something they think they're gonna get in trouble you're not gonna get in trouble like they're not they're going to save that person they're not gonna really check you so what about did she will she like thank you for saving my life no the next day she goes who was that [ __ ] that called because she couldn't remember anything things only continue to spiral more and more out of control from this point on every single detail Misha's life was being reported on the Swarms of Paparazzi were only growing larger one month headlines would read that Nisha is struggling with an Ed and is way too skinny then when she would put on a little bit of weight all of a sudden she is just too fat foreign [Music] [Music] [Applause] president's blog was also wildly popular at the time he would regularly report on Misha referring to her as mushy farton and just to give an example of how Perez Hilton would write about Misha this is just one blog post of many he said quo you may have gotten rid of the cottage cheese but you've still got the cankles and smoking really damages your skin Misha also gets a lot of headlines about her seemingly fluctuating weight a thought now would be a good time to ask her about it so how do you feel when people speculate about that you're white and stuff in the Press does that hurt I think most actors kind of you know you get in shape for a role you're working out you're in that headspace and you're doing that and everybody's like oh wow she looks so great and then you know you take time off and you uh you know you hang out with your boyfriend you gain five pounds 10 pounds whatever and and everybody's like oh my god look she's gained weight Alexa is some particular picture so I was looking at today on the internet where I don't know if you have your wisdom teeth out said underneath the interlocked about that and then people assume all of a sudden that you've got alcoholic bloat on your face it's a really difficult time for me and I was shocked by the insensitivity of the press and just how like you know newsworthy it really all became things kind of came to a head in December of 2007 when Misha was arrested for a DUI and for driving without a valid driver's license these days it seems posing for a mug shot is as much part of being a celeb as walking the red carpet OC Beauty Misha Barton's the latest to join the Celeb lineup LA County Sheriff's officials say the TV star and model was taken into custody at around quarter to three on Thursday morning after deputies saw her car straddling two lanes of traffic and failing to signal while making a turn the 21 year old actress is now being held in a West Hollywood jail on ten thousand dollar bail she accepted a plea deal which required her to complete a three-month alcohol education class and to pay a two thousand dollar fine in an interview with Ryan Seacrest she commented on the situation saying quo obviously I am a hundred percent responsible for my actions in this case I'm really disappointed in myself I don't know what to say about it other than I'm not perfect and I never intend to do something this stupid ever again after Misha's arrest for a DUI things seem to wind down for a bit as she stepped out of the club scene despite all of her personal struggles during 2007 Misha had never stopped working she had a few lucrative contracts as brand ambassador for Brands such as Herbal Essence and Ked shoes she also had been working on launching an entire handbag collection and somehow still managed to find time to act in a couple of movies but by 2009 everything seemed to come crashing down again according to an interview with Dr Phil Misha said she was severely overworked she said she had only had eight days off in the entire year she further stated that it was like a train that she could not get off of Misha asked get out of jobs all of the time and the team around her including mama journala would tell her she had to do the jobs just to give an example of the kind of people who surrounded Misha in her younger years she was once told by her publicist to sleep with Leonardo DiCaprio for the sake of her career when she was just 19 years old which she responded to that saying she's not into older men so it's not surprising to find out that this team of people started pushing prescription medications onto Misha just to keep her working were there people medicating you to keep you working yes I mean yes it was everybody was very concerned that I wasn't ready to jump back into a whole new show and there was a lot of pressure to do right by the show and the whole menu series and I don't know if there's any like one particular person to blame it's like you can again hindsight is 20 20 but an entire team of people felt that they knew best for me at that time but who was your fiduciary in this who was putting your interest above the project or their nobody really to be honest I had only a few people who were really um looking out for me but unfortunately came in too late so were they medicating you to keep your energy up just to keep me going and yeah but speed well no not necessarily just that also things like Xanax and things that like take away like the anxiety of work and like the public eye and so in general they were just prescribing things they probably had no right to be prescribing that's treating you like a commodity yeah there is a lot it pisses me off they got a smorgasbord of pills here she's anxious so let's give her this she's down let's give her this just keep her working keep her up there keep her cranking in March of 2009 Misha was cast in a new show called Beautiful Life which was created by Ashton Kutcher around this time nisha's team and parents you know the very team that according to Misha had been medicating her to keep her working well all of a sudden they switch gears saying they did not believe she was ready to go off and do this new job shortly after on July 15 2009 according to reports her team staged an intervention where police would come to take Misha to the hospital the police did say that she was speaking coherently and went willingly for a mental evaluation when Nisha arrived at the hospital she was pretty upset at the whole situation according to her she tried to escape from the hospital and that's when things got very bad she ended up being committed to the psych ward for four days under California's 5150 hold it was whisked off to a psych ward using the same ears yeah section 5150 says police were involved due to Ms Barton's Celebrity Status to safely transfer her to medical treatment as per doctor's order she is okay now and she is resting that's one of her munchas and when they rolled into her house they said she was bloated and looked odd my agents and my parents and everybody thinking that I wasn't capable of going off and doing this job in a few days time that I wasn't ready there was an experience where they wanted to go send me to the hospital and so they sent me to the hospital and these pills that I've been prescribed by a doctor that they had brought in to make sure that I was ready for work and then I go down to the hospital they managed to get out of the hospital doors and make a run for it and that didn't end so well for me and again I was not suitable at that time it was just I didn't want to be there and I didn't think it was fair that experience has followed you till now because 5150 is an involuntary commitment for someone that is a danger to themselves or someone else she's she's this and it's a stigma that really sticks they do they put the crazy label on after the 5150 Misha seemingly disappeared from the Limelight she was not seen at any of the promotional events for the beautiful life the show that she was starring in and the CW ended up canceling the show just after the first two episodes aired because the ratings were pretty terrible for years after her spiral Misha flew under the radar and out of the headlines she still would continue on acting but in lower level films many of which were Thrillers or horror movies but overall it appeared as if she had really turned her life around however the repercussions of her quote troubled years continued to follow her by 2014 she was financially struggling the multi-million dollar home Misha purchased when she was 19 years old during the OC days that home was under threat of foreclosure she had tried to offload the property multiple times to no avail and it was reported she was a hundred thousand dollars behind on the mortgage shortly after the news broke of the potential foreclosure it came out that Misha was being dude by film producers of the movie promoted Misha had agreed to star in the movie and was reportedly given an advance payment of twenty thousand dollars a day before filming was to start her rep sent an email to producers saying Misha had decided to not take part in the movie Misha allegedly kept the money and then took a trip to Europe this was all in the courts for quite a while but eventually a judge ordered Nisha to pay the producers two hundred thousand dollars in Damages and this would just be the beginning of Misha's legal battles in 2015 Misha sued her mom Nala for allegedly stealing her money and exploiting her Fame for commercial purposes Misha's lawyer had referred to Nala as a greedy stage mother allegedly when Nala was acting as nisha's manager or momager she told Misha that a movie was paying less than it actually was and then allegedly pocketed the difference for herself this is just one of the many claims made against Nala there is also a secondary legal battle in regards to the house that was almost foreclosed on allegedly nisha's mom locked Misha out of her own home and was preventing Misha from being able to sell the home to avoid foreclosure now Nala denies all of these claims this morning actress Misha Barton locked in a bitter battle with her mother taking her to court claiming she stole from the OC star who schemed to defraud her unsuspecting victim to exploit her daughter's career for her own selfish benefit we brought this action on behalf of our client Misha Barton against her mother and former talent manager nula Barton so that Misha can get closure can move on with her career and can get to the bottom of what's happened to all the money that she's made fast forward to 2016 Misha was finally able to sell her home and with her legal battles now behind her she began inching her way back into the public eye she went on Dancing With the Stars but was booted off pretty quickly and in an interview she likened the experience of being on Dancing With the Stars to the Hunger Games by 2017 Misha was back to being a headline regular and things get pretty dark again it first started on her birthday she had gone out to celebrate with a few friends after returning home a neighbor began filming Misha having a breakdown on her balcony and that neighbor immediately sold the footage to TMZ oh my God it's over I feel it edit angry oh my God oh my mother I always knew it um were you [ __ ] which I knew it what a wish actress Misha Barton was taken to the hospital but no information has been released on her condition the LA County Sheriff's Department says they were called to a West Hollywood apartment yesterday morning because of a report of a woman yelling that's when Barton was taken to the hospital police were called and Misha was brought to a nearby hospital according to Misha when she was out celebrating her birthday she may have been slipped GHB again this would make lines across the country where media would question if Misha is back to her quote old ways but you think you were drugged yes I do I'm the paramedic said that I showed all the symptoms of GHB and that I was I was drugged you got two seaters I did yeah they took care of me there they took me two Cedars I was already out you had no idea what happened to you yeah you know how you got there no has any of it come back to you nope quite literally right after this incident a new headline breaks that an explicit tape of Misha is being shopped around Hollywood for five hundred thousand dollars see Misha was in this kind of Whirlwind of a romance that lasted just a few weeks with a man named John Zacharias what Misha said she didn't know was that John was secretly recording their intimate relations without her knowledge he then was allegedly trying to sell the videos and photos that he took of Misha without her consent to the highest bidder Misha wasted no time and hired attorney Lisa Bloom to stop this from happening immediately Lisa files a temporary restraining order against John and another ex-boyfriend Adam Shaw who may have also been involved in this some way michen her lawyer also hold a press conference to deter anyone from buying these tapes as it is a serious crime called revenge porn when I learned that someone I thought I loved and trusted was filming my most intimate and private moment without my consent with hidden cameras and then I learned something even worse that someone is trying to sell these videos and make them public let me be very clear to anyone who attempts to traffic in these images you are now on notice of these court orders you are on notice that these images were obtained illegally and that Ms Barton does not consent to their distribution if you continue we will find you we will come after you and we will bring you to Justice to the fullest extent possible in June of 2017 Misha and John Zacharias reached a settlement that permanently blocked the dissemination of the video and imagery all the explicit content was to be handed over to Misha's lawyer immediately and there would be a permanent restraining order in place this was a huge win for Misha and also just to show how serious of a crime revenge porn is you know we did a video on deep dive about how when this very thing happened to Vanessa Hudgins she was shamed and blamed relentlessly for it so Misha's case just shows how far we have come and taking this crime seriously it's amazing how different I feel from when we started this case it's like night and day I actually I truly do feel stronger and Victorious did it feel like the end like this was over it actually did because you know it's like too permanent restraining orders I felt safe again and I felt like I had fought it out which I had in 2019 MTV was rebooting the hit reality show the hills titled The Hills New Beginnings quite a few of the original cast members would return to the show like Audrina Brody Heidi and Spencer but in a shocking announcement we learned that Misha Barton was going to be joining the cast as well when you're famous people have like a price tag on your head keep my distance now from people it's a hard learned lesson a lot of people that I trusted turned out to be monsters in a weird way it's kind of like everything has come full circle Misha was a star of the OC which inspired Laguna Beach and now almost 15 years later she joins the cast of a spin-off of a show that was inspired by the very show that shot her into stardom it's a full circle moment Perez Hilton who is now the Godfather of Heidi and Spencer's kid even makes a cameo and apologizes to Misha for all of his old atrocious blog posts you know the ones where he calls her mushy fartin I need to apologize but the thing with that is that like and not to put you on the spot but this bullying that you did for so long with so many young girls I find it hard to let go I really do it's not just about the body shaming I just can't really accept apology entirely on the behalfa I am I said that you're speaking for other people too what did he say about that about like her weight and stuff and I say this on my kid's life I swear if I could go back in time and do things differently I would would you really after just one season Misha left the show Brody Jenner said it was kind of awkward having her part of the cast and producers allegedly said she just didn't bring the drama that's necessary for reality TV since then Misha's gone on to act in a couple more horror-esque films and just three months ago Misha came on Rachel Bilson and Melinda Clark's podcast welcome to the OC [ __ ] and they discussed their old OC days while they cried together as they re-watched Marissa Cooper's death scene so it looks like Nisha and Rachel have smoothed out any differences they had about their experiences on set you know what we just are so grateful that you were willing to come on the people have been asking and hounding and obviously like we said it just speaks to how powerful you were on the show and how much everyone loves you Brooklyn

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Published: Fri May 12 2023