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A week after being placed under psychiatric hold, Mischa Barton is "still seeking treatment but making improvements," her rep Craig Schneider said. Schneider would not elaborate, but said that the 23-year-old actress plans to report to work on her CW series, The Beautiful Life, later this month. A rep for the show, which stars Barton as a struggling supermodel, says shooting is slated to start on July 31. That’s two weeks later than planned. While the show says the delay was not due to Mischa Barton’s troubles, but to "problems with the sets," multiple sources say The Beautiful Life producers are working on a Plan B (i.e. a new character) in light of the actress’ hospitalization. The hard-partying Barton was placed under a 5150 involuntary psychiatric hold (a.k.a. the Britney Spears hold) at L.A.’s Cedars-Sinai Medical Center July 13. "She’s going through a rough patch," says Benji Kohn, producer of her new film Homecoming. "I hope Mischa is OK. My thoughts and prayers are with her." Barton is said to be coked up and suicidal. Hopefully not. Here’s hoping this once-promising actress gets better and that she stars on her show as planned. 

Is life imitating art for Mischa Barton? The 23-year-old plays a former homecoming queen who goes berserk on her ex-boyfriend’s current girlfriend in the new flick "Homecoming." Barton missed the New York premiere last night after being taken to the psych ward at Cedars-Sinai in L.A. The film’s director, Morgan J. Freeman, doesn’t believe Barton’s role played a part in the real-life drama. Freeman tells "Extra," "She was very professional on-set in playing a character who got to lose her mind in the movie, but I don’t see that in having any relationship to her real life." Freeman enjoyed working with Barton and says she was "cheery" and "funny" while on the set of "Homecoming." He adds, "She was excited about some other job things happening." He also says the former "The O.C." star was "100% professional" and "prompt," and that Barton knew her lines, and that the news of her hospitalization was a complete shock to him.