Glad to see her doing so much better now. After spending some time in the hospital, Mischa Barton is back on the scene. She explains her hiatus by saying,

"I went through a tough spot where everything compounded on me, and it
was like a perfect storm, like everything was happening to me at once."

Then she also had some medical problems that compounded things for her.

Mischa had a "terrible" wisdom tooth surgery – a procedure she says went wrong and is "still just healing."

"I
had to get through it without proper painkillers because I couldn't
take those during work," she said of the procedure. "So it's been a
nightmare." 

Fortunately Mischa is doing much better now.

"I was down in the dumps about everything there for a while," she
reveals. "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." 

Still, she wishes that the incident could have happened in another city.

"The funny thing is, if all this happened in New York, no one would
care," she says. "New York lets you be who you are, and people aren't
as judgmental. I'm so glad to be back here."