Mindy McCready [EDIT: RIP February 2013]

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Mindy McCready apparently attempted suicide, and a man charged last spring with trying to kill her was with the country singer when police found her unconscious in a Florida hotel lobby, authorities said Tuesday.

William McKnight, 39, had been charged with attempted criminal homicide and aggravated burglary in an attack on the 28-year-old entertainer earlier this year. The couple had broken up about two weeks before the attack, which occurred at McCready's Nashville home.

McKnight, who described himself as McCready's fiance, told authorities at the Holiday Inn Harborside in Indian Rocks Beach that she had taken a large amount of two substances and drank a lot of alcohol, according to a Pinellas County Sheriff's Department report.

Sgt. Jim Bordner refused to identify the substances, citing McCready's medical confidentiality rights.

Bordner also refused to release McCready's condition or the hospital where she was taken. He said only that she was "recovering at a local hospital."

According to the report, McKnight told authorities that he "had been having some relationship problems" with McCready and gave them a four-page suicide note he said she had written.

The note wasn't released.

McCready had testified in May that McKnight punched her in the face and choked her after he said she wasn't going to make a fool out of him by seeing other men. He posted $130,000 bail last month.

A few days before the attack, McCready _ who had a hit in 1996 with "Guys Do It All the Time" _ was arrested and charged with driving under the influence and driving on a suspended license.

Last year, she pleaded guilty to fraudulently obtaining the painkiller OxyContin at a suburban Nashville pharmacy and was fined $4,000, sentenced to three years of supervised probation and ordered to perform 200 hours of community service.

A service of the Associated Press(AP)

Boyfriend blamed for singer's problems
By ALEX LEARY, Times Staff Writer
Published July 28, 2005

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Country singer Mindy McCready sees the recent turbulence in her career, including a beating she took from her boyfriend in May and last week's overdose at an Indian Rocks Beach hotel, as divine intervention.

"I think God's been trying to get my attention and telling me I'm supposed to be out there singing and entertaining," she said Wednesday, a day after being released from Sun Coast Hospital in Largo.

"I just want to get back to being the regular Mindy McCready."

But the tabloid twists keep coming.

McCready's mother issued a statement Wednesday saying her daughter was lured to Florida by the former boyfriend, William McKnight, and that she tried to kill herself after he "verbally berated" her and allegedly said he would destroy her career. . . .

Forget about her. There'll be another hot blonde country singer come along shortly to replace her.

Sorry I don't have much sympathy for these people who attain such fame and fortune simply because they possess the genetic ability to sing. In most cases it's the only talent they have as they are usually poorly educated bumpkins who often turn to alcohol and drugs.

Oh man

http://myfox8.com/2013/02/17/mindy-mccready-dead-of-apparent-suicide-according-to-report/

The Naked Nashville documentary episode featuring her is online. Five parts:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brnHqxHDth0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsBWoLmc0gU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knbH4nHiCIQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7E_id6YvSf4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yw1GV5h-xag

holy shit.

Damn. I don't have the time to watch all those youtubes right now, but damn.

Whipped up a playlist of them for ease

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSfxjgIYjeGZ4vjxDjZyQ3dqJsTjlqlaI

"I think I'm very ambitious. I think in most situations I would always choose to go a little farther...I think ambition is about how hard you're willing to push yourself to get something...I don't think there's any level that I could ever say that I wouldn't push myself to."

McCready leaves behind two boys, one of whom is 10 months old. The infant's father, record producer David Wilson, died of an apparent suicide last month.

fuck, man

Fuuuuuuuuck. I have no idea why I review ILM before going to bed. Fuck me.

RIP

but what is the point of shooting her dog?

more country that way.

guys do it all the time

but what is the point of shooting her dog?

the dead tell no tale

that naked bravo thing not very naked. mindy seems fine for a 21 year old newbie. the label guy on the other hand is el grosso. especially when he says that sometimes he feels like smacking the crap out of mindy. yuck. hate label guys. wannabe geffen guys. they'd make anyone want to do tons of drugs.

she shot her dog and left two children without parents. feel really bad that she was obviously so tormented but at the same time that is straight bullshit

^

mindy seems fine for a 21 year old newbie. the label guy on the other hand is el grosso. especially when he says that sometimes he feels like smacking the crap out of mindy. yuck.

OTM

but what is the point of shooting her dog?

a mindy you don't meet every day.

really good thing by chuck:

http://www.spin.com/articles/mindy-mccready-dead-37-suicide-remembrance