Mischa Barton Goes To Hospital, Then Leaves Again

Remember The OC, that show that everyone watched for a bit until it got so hopelessly awful nobody even noticed when it got axed? Well, the skinny girl who used to be in The OC fell over and went to hospital this weekend, but she's better now.

Mischa Barton, as the skinny girl who used to be in The OC preposterously demands to be called, was 'rushed' to hospital over the weekend after she 'collapsed' when a few 'cocktails' she 'enjoyed' at a barbecue reacted with the 'antibiotics' she was taking for 'bronchitis' and made her 'collapse' and receive all kinds of 'medical' 'treatment' until Mischa Barton 'started' 'to' 'feel' 'better' 'again'.

None of those words actually require their inverted commas, by the way, but we have to try and make this news look interesting somehow.

Mischa Barton knows all about illness, and not because she occasionally looks so malnourished that a tiny sneeze could feasibly shatter her bones. No, Mischa Barton knows about illness because she suffers from the prettiness disease, where people outrageously treat you differently because you're pretty and they're all just ugly bastards who haven't even been in The OC or, prior to that, a very very minor role in Notting Hill. It's a serious affliction, this 'being pretty' disease, and Mischa Barton knows how serious it is.

Roughly it's as serious as drinking a bunch of booze on top of the antibiotics that a doctor prescribed to you just before he ordered you not to drink on top of them. Handily Mischa Barton knows all about that too, because that seems to have been what sent her to hospital this weekend. TMZ reports:

Sources tell TMZ that the former "OC" star was at a friend's Memorial Day BBQ enjoying a few holiday cocktails when she began to feel extremely ill. Mischa, who has been quite sick with bronchitis since traveling to Cannes, London and Paris the past several weeks, apparently didn't get the memo — you can't drink alcohol while taking antibiotics!

Don't worry, though, because Mischa Barton is already said to be out of hospital and resting with loved ones, meaning that you can go back to forgetting that she even exists in a moment or two. Mischa's swift recovery also means that her godawful new St Trinians movie will still be released on time, more's the pity.

And, for a final relief, it appears that Mischa Barton was rushed to hospital by someone other than her fellow barbecue guest Nicole Richie - so at least she was given medical assistance without being driven up the motorway the wrong way by a skinny girl on pot and vicodin.

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Mischa Barton Hospitalised - TMZ