Although it is a popular past time to diagnose people in the public eye, clinically/professionally the practice is highly suspect. One should not diagnose people who we do not know, who we have not personally interviewed. It amounts to throwing a negative diagnosis at someone we do not like, or with whom we strongly disagree politically, occupationally, socially or with regard to their lifestyles. Any use of our diagnostic training to diagnose public personalities or for that matter, historical figures, is a misuse of that tool.
I know this is an inadequate answer, but I think most very badly behaving celebrities, unless their behavior is solely related to substance abuse, probably suffer from a combination of some of the features found on Axis II, Cluster B of the DSM IV TR. However, I would hesitate to diagnose someone I saw in my office with a personality disorder based on the current diagnostic criteria, much less a distant celebrity, so I prefer to discuss traits.
I see histrionic features, narcissistic features, antisocial features, borderline features . well, it obvious that I think nearly the whole spectrum can apply. And as someone above shrewdly said, it seems to come with the territory.
This will be no surprise in itself, but I think many of us will be glad when that whole cluster is revised in DSM V. There is so much overlap, and so many garbage-can diagnoses (just read a recent colloquy I saw here on Quora about Borderline Personality Disorder, and how "no personality disorder is ever treatable.")
She had shaved her own head and the media came up with a variety of reasons including drug abuse, depression etc.
It was terrifying to see a beautiful singer on tv suffering to that extent. She probably went through a lot of intolerable levels of hardship that lead to outragous behaviour.
Diagnosing her it would be bipolar, usually a person with bipolar goes from one stage to another and may cause a melt down for a period of time. They would be obsessed with one thing and completely
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