We've already heard that Mischa Barton blamed her hospitalization on pain caused by complications from dental surgery. She repeated this explanation on 'The View' this morning, and the hosts apparently pressed her on that explanation.

Calling her hospitalization "silly," despite being "completely overwhelmed" by her situation, [Mischa], trying to deflect attention away from the subject, says on the program, "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," ABC News reports.

When Barbara Walters reportedly pointed out that the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center psychiatric ward "was not just any facility," Mischa repeated her explanation that she was suffering extreme pain after having her wisdom teeth removed.

Joy Behar then asked why Mischa had to be treated in the psychiatric unit if her problem was related to pain from dental surgery, and Mischa gave the following explanation:

"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."

Barton now insists all is well. "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," she says, before going into a fairly rambling recap of her experience.

"Anyway, I got really healthy since then," Barton adds.

I can't imagine having to discuss something so personal on national television! It sounds like Mischa was thrown off a little by the questioning. Yet she is working on her new show, 'The Beautiful Life,' so it looks like Mischa is doing better.

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