It’s over. Amanda Bynes and her fiancé, Paul Michael, have split three weeks after the former child star announced their engagement.
Michael told In Touch on Sunday, March 8, that he and Bynes, 33, ended their engagement.
“We did,” he told the publication. “I love her though, she’s my best friend.”
Bynes sparked speculation that she and her former fiancé had called it quits after she deleted every photo of Michael from her Instagram. The What a Girl Wants star announced her engagement to Michael on Valentine’s Day via Instagram.
“Engaged to tha [sic] love of my life,” she captioned a picture of her massive ring with a man’s hand in the background on February 14. Hours later, she posted her first selfie with Michael captioned, “lover.”
The All That alum introduced her former flame to her followers in a video posted via Instagram on February 20.
“Hey, everyone, this is Paul, my fiancé,” Bynes said in the clip with Michael by her side. “I’m so lucky. As you can see, he’s drop-dead gorgeous. He’s also the best person on the face of the Earth.”
She went on to apologize for calling celebrities — including DrakeOpens in a new Window., Chrissy TeigenOpens in a new Window. and Miley Cyrus Opens in a new Window.— ugly on Twitter in 2013 and blamed her substance abuse at the time. Opens in a new Window.
“I just wanted to post a video to say I’m sorry to everybody whom I called ugly on Twitter. I was feeling so ugly at the time, and it was really hard for me to express myself at the time because I was so drugged out,” Bynes said at the time.
Bynes concluded the video with an update on her and Michael’s sobriety.
“Now I’ve remained sober for over a year — same with Paul — and I just want to let you know that I love you guys and I’m so happy now. I feel like I got what’s mine, and that is Paul.”
The Amanda Show alum expressed her regret over her past behavior in an interview with Paper magazine in November 2018.
“I’m really ashamed and embarrassed with the things I said,” she said at the time. “I can’t turn back time but if I could, I would. And I’m so sorry to whoever I hurt and whoever I lied about because it truly eats away at me.”
