Clemens, now a special instructor with the Houston Astros, handed reporters a written statement on Monday at the team's spring training camp in Kissimmee, Florida. It says he'd heard 'she was trying to get peace and direction in her life'. McCready's career hit its peak in with her debut single Ten Thousand Angels and the subsequent hit Guys Do It All the Time, which climbed to number one on the country music charts.
Since then, she faced multiple arrests suffered drug and alcohol problems and attempted suicide twice. Earlier this month, McCready was ordered to complete up to 21 days of outpatient treatment and undergo drug and alcohol tests.
It helped her realize she needs to focus on putting her family back together and moving forward from this tragedy,' the unnamed source told E! McCready's spokeswoman released a statement saying: 'As you can imagine, the tragedy of David Wilson's death has been devastating and crippling to Mindy and her entire family.
While taking appropriate and much needed time to grieve, her sons have been placed in foster homes where they are comfortable and cared for. Thank you for your patience, understanding and sensitivity. McCready struggled with arrests and drug addition after her career began to fade in the late s. She was dropped by BNA Records in after her album had disappointing sales and then dropped by Capitol Records in after her record suffered the same fate.
She was arrested in Tennessee in and pleaded guilty to using a fake prescription to buy the painkiller OxyContin. She was arrested in Nashville in May for drunk driving and driving with a suspended license after she was stopped for speeding.
Two months later, she was charged with identity theft, unlawful use of transportation, unlawful imprisonment, and hindering prosecution in Arizona. In July , she was arrested in Fort Myers, Florida and charged with with fighting with her mother. In and , she was hospitalized for attempting suicide. She was taken to the hospital in for a drug overdose, as well.
Criminal record: Mindy McCready has been arrested multiple times - for a probation violation in left , for allegedly assaulting her mother in center and for a probation violation shortly after that right. Troubled: Mindy McCready, 37, has waged a public battle with drug addiction since her career peaked in Mindy McCready was arrested several times and attempted suicide at least twice after her success faded.
Her first arrest came in when she was busted in Tennessee for using a fake prescription to buy OxyContin. In , her ex-boyfriend Billy McKnight was arrested for attempted murder for choking and severely beating her. That same year she was also arrested in Tennessee for drunk driving and charged in Arizona for identity theft, unlawful use of transportation, unlawful imprisonment, and hindering prosecution.
She was also charged twice in for violating her probation. In , she was arrested for beating her mother at her Fort Myers, Florida, home and resisting arrest. The following week she was arrested for violating her probation.
She served a year in jail for the probation violation charges. McCready has been mounting a comeback in recent years, though. She also appeared on Celebrity Rehab with Dr Drew as she attempted to work out her drug issues.
On the show's website, VH1 made references to her personal problems and even pegged the root of her troubles on her relationships. Her biography on the show's page says: 'Although she was arrested and jailed for trying to buy OxyContin with a false prescription and attempted suicide with an overdose of drugs and alcohol, Mindy believes her only true addiction is to violent relationships.
Wilson's death continued to cast a cloud on McCready because the sheriff's office did not immediately rule the death a suicide. Detectives say they are awaiting autopsy, ballistic and toxicology reports to determine how, exactly, Wilson died. The money would have arrived on February 11, which would have been his 35th birthday. The developments raise further questions as to why Wilson would harm himself at a time when life seemed to be going so well.
He bought a new truck three weeks before his death and was living with his son Zayne, nine months. McCready had denied point blank any involvement in his death and she is not being treated as a suspect in the case. But police in Cleburne County are still investigating and have ruled nothing out. Their initial conclusions hours after the incident were that he shot himself dead. Custody battle: Zander, 6, was at the center of a tug-of-war between McCready and her mother, who had legal custody.
In the next few days she would claim Zander was beaten by Gayle Inge, alleging the boy had scars on his body. Also, she said her mother's religious beliefs are too extreme: "My mother believes she is a prophet sent from God.
April 9, - McCready gives birth to another son, Zayne. The father is David Wilson. The singer's representative says earlier reports that she was pregnant with twins were a result of a misread sonogram. Initial reports suggest it was suicide, but local law enforcement are careful not to call it a self-inflicted gunshot wound, casting suspicion on McCready, who was home at the time. She would later say she had nothing to do with Wilson's death.
Just days earlier, McKnight had filed for full custody of Zander and urged a judge to have the singer submitted for a mental health and drug evaluation. McCready was released a short time later, which was thought to be a sign that she was not abusing drugs or alcohol to cope with Wilson's death. When they arrive at PM, they find the singer dead on the front porch from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. Mindy McCready was 37 years old. Home News. Billy Dukes Published: February 19, Filed Under: Mindy McCready.
Back To Top. McKnight made an announcement on his Facebook page :. Praise God today along with a lot of support and love from family and friends I am finally bringing my son home for good this Sunday. I want to thank all of you for the prayers that's been sent to me. I cannot express with words the weight that has been lifted off my shoulders.
To my beautiful wife Corey Rena-Mcknight it's a boy! Since then, McKnight has posted multiple status updates and pictures of Zander. She was a felon. She had drug and alcohol problems.
They knew she had guns in house and I told them and it was illegal," continued Inge. They still had arrogance to act like they did nothing wrong. The year-old blonde beauty, whose reality stardom and battle with addiction overshadowed her music career, was found dead of what investigators concluded was a self-inflicted gunshot wound on the front porch of her Heber Springs home. In a bizarre twist, it was also the same location where just one month earlier, her boyfriend and the father of her young son Zayne — record producer David Wilson — had also reportedly shot himself.
Inge says people will be "surprised" by the contents of the book — which is still in the beginning stages — and especially by McCready's last words, which she plans to reveal.
According to reports, in the days after her untimely passing, McCready received an email from the Arkansas Division of Children and Family Services that included a proposed court order allowing her mother to take care of her two children in Florida.
But despite McCready's high hopes in her final phone call with her mom, she still wasn't herself, Inge said. She was not in her right mind.
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