HOLY KRAP! Country Star Mindy McReady Committed Suicide!

[Hardrock69]

http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/music-arts/mindy-mccready-reportedly-commits-suicide-article-1.1266650

Country music star Mindy McCready commits suicide: report
The 37-year-old singer died Sunday night, her brother confirmed to the Daily News.
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Published: Sunday, February 17, 2013, 9:15 PM
Updated: Sunday, February 17, 2013, 9:15 PM

Country music star Mindy McCready has reportedly committed suicide.

The 37-year-old singer has died Sunday night, her brother confirmed to the Daily News.

Andrea Canning, a reporter with NBC Dateline, tweeted, “Just got a call from Mindy McCready's best friend that she shot and killed herself this evening. My heart breaks for her two boys. RIP”

McCready recorded five studio albums throughout her career, but she was perhaps best-known for her affair with former Yankees pitcher Roger Clemens.

The singer, who had two young boys, had reportedly struggled with alcohol and mental health issues in recent months and had checked herself into an inpatient rehab facility two weeks ago after the death of her boyfriend, producer David Wilson.

Wilson’s death was initially reported as a suicide, but the sheriff's office in Cleburne County, Ark., has an opened an investigation into it.

Link to local Nashville TV Station:

http://www.wkrn.com/story/21229665/mindy-mccready-dead

[FORD]

Yet another casualty of "Celebrity Rehab". How many is that now, 5?

I had a feeling that she wasn't going to make it. Not a fan, but it's sad anyway.

[PETE'S BROTHER]

a waste, damn shame

[Hardrock69]

http://www.eonline.com/news/389186/mindy-mccready-country-singer-dead-at-37

I had hoped she would be ok, but it seemed like her life was just one disaster after another....

[Va Beach VH Fan]

I only think about those two kids....

[ashstralia]

terribly tragic.

[Sensible Shoes]

I have no idea who this is. Or why the local news would lead with it tonight.

[Northern Girl]

Third times the charm....

[Northern Girl]

Complete train wreck...




Singer Mindy McCready dead at age 37

Feb. 17, 2013, 9:48 PM EST

HEBER SPRINGS, Arkansas (AP) — Mindy McCready, who hit the top of the country charts before personal problems sidetracked her career, died Sunday of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, authorities said. She was 37.

A news release from the Cleburne County Sheriff's Office said McCready was found dead with what appeared to be a single, self-inflicted wound. She was found on the front porch of a home.

Waren Olmstead, the county coroner, said McCready died Sunday in Heber Springs but couldn't immediately provide further details. He had no information on who was taking care of her two sons.

McCready arrived in Nashville in 1994 with tapes of her karaoke vocals and earned a recording contract with BNA Records.

In 1996, her "Guys Do It All the Time" hit No. 1 and its dig at male chauvinism endeared her to females. Her other hits included "Ten Thousand Angels," also in 1996, and her album by that title sold 2 million copies.

However, personal problems plagued her beginning in 2004 and included a custody battle with her mother over one of her sons.

McCready took her older son Zander from her mother and the boy's legal guardian, Gayle Inge, in late 2011. She fled to Arkansas without permission over what she called child abuse fears. Authorities eventually found McCready hiding in a residence without permission and took the boy into custody.

She and her boyfriend David Wilson had a son, Zayne, in April of 2012. The older son has a different father.

In May 2010, she was hospitalized briefly after police responded to an overdose call at a home in North Fort Myers, Florida, owned by her mother. This followed a stint on "Celebrity Rehab With Dr. Drew," where she delcared herself clean from drugs.

In 2004, she was charged with obtaining the painkiller OxyContin fraudulently at a pharmacy. She pleaded guilty and was placed on three years' probation.

She violated the probation with a drunken driving arrest in May 2005. Then she attempted suicide in July 2005, overdosed in September 2005 and slit her wrists again in December 2008.

Also that year, McCready was charged in Arizona with hindering prosecution and unlawful use of transportation. Those charges stemmed from an alleged attempt in June 2005 to purchase two high performance boats, but she claimed she was trying to stop a con man.

Growing up in Fort Myers, she took seven years of private vocal lessons and later sang in karaoke bars.

After getting her recording contract, she did concert appearances with top country stars including George Strait, Tim McGraw and Alan Jackson.

Her other singles included "Maybe He'll Notice Her Now," ''A Girl's Gotta Do (What a Girl's Gotta Do)" and "You'll Never Know."

[Nitro Express]

I didn't even know who she was.

[FORD]

I have no idea who this is. Or why the local news would lead with it tonight.

She had a couple of big country hits several years ago....

...decent voice, for that sort of music. But it seems like all 10,000 of those angels lost her phone number.

[SunisinuS]

Sigh....god I was still rooting for her.



RIP Girl. I am losing another friend I am sure soon to this same type of dispair....God Help Him.

[SunisinuS]

Alcoholism is a bitch.

[ashstralia]

Sigh... I am losing another friend I am sure soon to this same type of dispair....God Help Him.

intervention, maybe?

[SunisinuS]

intervention, maybe?

We have been trying....lost my mom to manic-depressive....this guy is a grown man determined to meet the same fate....he needs professional help and not my fist stopping him....I hope his rock bottom is just jail...not suicide. My boss and myself have spent all weekend and months before that trying to save his life....he just wants to drink himself to death.