MISCHA BARTON has admitted she ‘wanted to die' during her Britney-style meltdown, which saw her sectioned in a mental hospital.

Barton says she ‘hit rock bottom' after a botched surgery to remove two wisdom teeth

She said: "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.

"I'm petrified of needles, like, absolutely petrified... you can't come anywhere (near me with a needle)."

"I just figure that, if you hit rock bottom like that ... and you're around people, you realise I'm nothing like these people."

But the actress says her heavy work schedule was also to blame for her meltdown.

"I was overwhelmed. I had too much work on, I just had surgery on my wisdom teeth that went really badly," she said.

"When I was in hospital I had four wisdom teeth and two were taken out and they'd gotten it really badly wrong, they had to drill into my jaw, I was in excruciating pain... (and) I think I was just starting to get overwhelmed and it was just too much to have this surgery go so wrong."

Despite the incident, Mischa says she has bounced back and has never felt better, but  admits she has since moved to New York to distance herself from ‘bad influences' in Los Angeles.

"I got really healthy since then. I've just been doing everything I can to keep my job happy and healthy, and I've moved to New York with my two dogs and I have a great apartment."

And the actress is keen to put the whole thing behind her.

She says: "It was really 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. It was sort of one of those things that was like a perfect storm. Everything happened at once."