In all seriousness: Mental illness or just a miscreant.

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Well, she does have some sort of drug addiction.

We don't know if drug addiction was the cause of this or her previous high-jinx. I think the difference is that we don't expect this from a woman vs. a man so readily.

And, the judgement of whether someone is mentally ill or not can be subjective.
In the 1980's msny Soviet dissidents were hospitalized with a diagnosis of creeping schizophrenia. The diagnosis was based largely on the philosophies, activism, and religosity of the dissidents. In a society that values conformity, dissent may be taken as psycho-pathology.

well, it's not subjective if one has psychosis, or is emotionally disturbed enough to be dysfunctional

<< And, the judgement of whether someone is mentally ill or not can be subjective. >>

Sometimes.

Frances Farmer wasn't really mentally ill, she was just a loud-mouthed drunk who didn't like to wear makeup.

In the 1930's, this constituted mental illness.

'And, the judgement of whether someone is mentally ill or not can be subjective'.
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Not when you're a clinical narcissist. Then it becomes very objective