McCready's final days
Heartache seemed to follow tragic country star Mindy McCready like a tear-soaked ballad.
Her short life was plagued by trouble with alcohol, trouble with drugs and, mostly, trouble with men.
McCready's final days were allegedly a "haze of addiction, depression and despair," gossip website RadarOnline reports.
The singer died an apparent suicide Sunday at her home in Heber Springs, Ark. Police say McCready died of a suspected self-inflicted gunshot to the head and also may have shot and killed her dog before ending her own life.
Just 37, the singer left behind two young sons.
Her shocking suicide comes just a month after her longtime boyfriend, David Wilson, shot and killed himself on the porch of the home the duo shared.
Pal Shane Tallant told CBS News her suicide "obviously speaks to the pain that she was feeling, that, for whatever reason, she chose to go to the same location and do the same thing that he did."
McCready had attempted suicide at least three times since 2005, as she struggled to cope after a series of sex scandals and public meltdowns that shadowed her adult life.
She told The Associated Press in 2010: "It is a giant whirlwind of chaos all the time. I call my life a beautiful mess and organized chaos. It's just always been like that. My entire life things have been attracted to me and vice versa that turn into chaotic nightmares or I create the chaos myself. I think that's really the life of a celebrity, of a big, huge, giant personality."
Wilson's death seemed to trigger a downward spiral in the already emotionally fragile McCready.
"I just keep telling myself that the more suffering that I go through, the greater character I'll have," she told NBC's Today Show.
After the death of her "soul-mate," McCready's substance abuse and inability to care for her children sent her back to court-ordered rehab, with the children going into foster care. Her father told a judge that alcohol and prescription pills rendered her unable to parent.
News of McCready's death spread quickly Sunday night on Twitter, with major country stars paying their respects to the one-time Nashville darling.
"Too much tragedy to overcome. R. I. P Mindy McCready," wrote Natalie Maines of The Dixie Chicks.
And Carrie Underwood tweeted: "I grew up listening to Mindy McCready ... so sad for her family tonight. Many prayers are going out to them ..."
Melinda Gayle McCready arrived in Nashville in 1994 still in her teens with tapes of her karaoke vocals and earned a recording contract with BNA Records. She had a few memorable moments professionally, scoring her first No. 1 hit almost immediately.
Guys Do It All the Time, a self-assured dig at male chauvinism, endeared her to female fans in 1996. She also scored a hit with Ten Thousand Angels and her album of that title sold two million copies.
But mostly, McCready soon became better known for a flurry of sordid affairs and an unauthorized sex tape featuring her amorous antics.
She made headlines in April 2008 when she claimed a long-time relationship with baseball great Roger Clemens.
Her short life was plagued by trouble with alcohol, trouble with drugs and, mostly, trouble with men.
McCready's final days were allegedly a "haze of addiction, depression and despair," gossip website RadarOnline reports.
The singer died an apparent suicide Sunday at her home in Heber Springs, Ark. Police say McCready died of a suspected self-inflicted gunshot to the head and also may have shot and killed her dog before ending her own life.
Just 37, the singer left behind two young sons.
Her shocking suicide comes just a month after her longtime boyfriend, David Wilson, shot and killed himself on the porch of the home the duo shared.
Pal Shane Tallant told CBS News her suicide "obviously speaks to the pain that she was feeling, that, for whatever reason, she chose to go to the same location and do the same thing that he did."
McCready had attempted suicide at least three times since 2005, as she struggled to cope after a series of sex scandals and public meltdowns that shadowed her adult life.
She told The Associated Press in 2010: "It is a giant whirlwind of chaos all the time. I call my life a beautiful mess and organized chaos. It's just always been like that. My entire life things have been attracted to me and vice versa that turn into chaotic nightmares or I create the chaos myself. I think that's really the life of a celebrity, of a big, huge, giant personality."
Wilson's death seemed to trigger a downward spiral in the already emotionally fragile McCready.
"I just keep telling myself that the more suffering that I go through, the greater character I'll have," she told NBC's Today Show.
After the death of her "soul-mate," McCready's substance abuse and inability to care for her children sent her back to court-ordered rehab, with the children going into foster care. Her father told a judge that alcohol and prescription pills rendered her unable to parent.
News of McCready's death spread quickly Sunday night on Twitter, with major country stars paying their respects to the one-time Nashville darling.
"Too much tragedy to overcome. R. I. P Mindy McCready," wrote Natalie Maines of The Dixie Chicks.
And Carrie Underwood tweeted: "I grew up listening to Mindy McCready ... so sad for her family tonight. Many prayers are going out to them ..."
Melinda Gayle McCready arrived in Nashville in 1994 still in her teens with tapes of her karaoke vocals and earned a recording contract with BNA Records. She had a few memorable moments professionally, scoring her first No. 1 hit almost immediately.
Guys Do It All the Time, a self-assured dig at male chauvinism, endeared her to female fans in 1996. She also scored a hit with Ten Thousand Angels and her album of that title sold two million copies.
But mostly, McCready soon became better known for a flurry of sordid affairs and an unauthorized sex tape featuring her amorous antics.
She made headlines in April 2008 when she claimed a long-time relationship with baseball great Roger Clemens.
Published
reports at the time said she met the pitcher at a Florida karaoke bar
when she was 15 and he was 28 and married. Clemens has denied the
relationship.
On Monday, Clemens handed a written statement to reporters at the Houston Astros spring training facility in Kissimmee, Fla., where he is serving as a special instructor for the team.
"Yes, that is sad news. I had heard over time that she was trying to get peace and direction in her life. The few times that I had met her and her manager/agent they were extremely nice."
A decade earlier she was engaged to actor Dean Cain, known for his role as Superman on the TV series Smallville, but the two never married.
She also had a turbulent relationship with Billy McKnight, a country singer who is the father of her oldest son. McKnight was arrested in 2005 on charges of attempted murder after authorities say he beat and choked her.
McKnight was unavailable for comment Monday morning, but a publicist said he'd been told by authorities his son and McCready's other child remained in foster care in Arkansas. McKnight was seeking custody of Zander in light of McCready's recent troubles.
McCready pleaded guilty to fraudulently obtaining the painkiller OxyContin at a pharmacy in 2004 and got probation.
She violated the probation with an arrest for drunken driving in May 2005, a few days before McKnight was arrested. And in July 2007, she was arrested in her hometown of Fort Myers, Fla., on misdemeanour charges of scratching her mother, Gayle Inge, on the face during a scuffle and of resisting sheriff's deputies.
Less than a year later, McCready was arrested and charged with violating her probation by falsifying her community service records relating to the 2004 drug charge. A month later, she entered an extended care facility for undisclosed treatment, and followed that with a 60-day jail sentence. Inge took custody of Zander.
There were at least three suicide attempts between July 2005 and December 2008.
She even tried to get help in an unusual way, joining the cast of Celebrity Rehab 3 with Dr. Drew Pinsky. McCready came off as a sympathetic figure during the show's run. Pinsky called her an "angel" and in an interview in 2010 said it appeared McCready was doing "rather well."
Pinsky helped treat McCready for love addiction on the show and said he'd referred her to professionals who could continue to help her afterward.
McCready suffered a seizure in one of the show's scarier moments. Tests showed she had suffered brain damage, something she attributed to her abusive relationship with McKnight.
McCready is the fifth celebrity to pass away since appearing on Pinsky's show and the third from Season 3. Alice in Chains bassist Mike Starr and Real World participant Joey Kovar both died of overdoses.
After her stint on Celebrity Rehab, McCready appeared hopeful she'd be able to get her career back on track. And she spoke fondly of Wilson.
"And I've never had a relationship like that before where we started completely as friends," she said. "It turned into friends really caring about each other and then it turned into love and I've never had that happen before."
But the album she had been working on was a flop and largely unlistened to.
Authorities said they plan an autopsy and investigation into her death.
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On Monday, Clemens handed a written statement to reporters at the Houston Astros spring training facility in Kissimmee, Fla., where he is serving as a special instructor for the team.
"Yes, that is sad news. I had heard over time that she was trying to get peace and direction in her life. The few times that I had met her and her manager/agent they were extremely nice."
A decade earlier she was engaged to actor Dean Cain, known for his role as Superman on the TV series Smallville, but the two never married.
She also had a turbulent relationship with Billy McKnight, a country singer who is the father of her oldest son. McKnight was arrested in 2005 on charges of attempted murder after authorities say he beat and choked her.
McKnight was unavailable for comment Monday morning, but a publicist said he'd been told by authorities his son and McCready's other child remained in foster care in Arkansas. McKnight was seeking custody of Zander in light of McCready's recent troubles.
McCready pleaded guilty to fraudulently obtaining the painkiller OxyContin at a pharmacy in 2004 and got probation.
She violated the probation with an arrest for drunken driving in May 2005, a few days before McKnight was arrested. And in July 2007, she was arrested in her hometown of Fort Myers, Fla., on misdemeanour charges of scratching her mother, Gayle Inge, on the face during a scuffle and of resisting sheriff's deputies.
Less than a year later, McCready was arrested and charged with violating her probation by falsifying her community service records relating to the 2004 drug charge. A month later, she entered an extended care facility for undisclosed treatment, and followed that with a 60-day jail sentence. Inge took custody of Zander.
There were at least three suicide attempts between July 2005 and December 2008.
She even tried to get help in an unusual way, joining the cast of Celebrity Rehab 3 with Dr. Drew Pinsky. McCready came off as a sympathetic figure during the show's run. Pinsky called her an "angel" and in an interview in 2010 said it appeared McCready was doing "rather well."
Pinsky helped treat McCready for love addiction on the show and said he'd referred her to professionals who could continue to help her afterward.
McCready suffered a seizure in one of the show's scarier moments. Tests showed she had suffered brain damage, something she attributed to her abusive relationship with McKnight.
McCready is the fifth celebrity to pass away since appearing on Pinsky's show and the third from Season 3. Alice in Chains bassist Mike Starr and Real World participant Joey Kovar both died of overdoses.
After her stint on Celebrity Rehab, McCready appeared hopeful she'd be able to get her career back on track. And she spoke fondly of Wilson.
"And I've never had a relationship like that before where we started completely as friends," she said. "It turned into friends really caring about each other and then it turned into love and I've never had that happen before."
But the album she had been working on was a flop and largely unlistened to.
Authorities said they plan an autopsy and investigation into her death.
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http://www.windsorstar.com/entertainment/Despair+ruled+McCready+final+days/7983130/story.html
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