{"id":34102,"date":"2013-02-18T13:06:36","date_gmt":"2013-02-18T11:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=34102"},"modified":"2013-02-18T13:06:59","modified_gmt":"2013-02-18T11:06:59","slug":"country-queen-mindy-mccready-killed-herself-us-news-34102","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/country-queen-mindy-mccready-killed-herself-us-news-34102\/","title":{"rendered":"Country Queen Mindy McCready killed herself \/ US News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Mindy McCready, who hit the top of the country charts before personal problems sidetracked her career, has died in an apparent suicide.<\/h1>\n

The 37-year-old was found dead on the front porch of her home in Heber Springs, Arkansas, on Sunday from what appeared to be a self-inflicted gunshot to the head, authorities said.<\/p>\n

McCready’s longtime boyfriend David Wilson, the father of one of her two sons, died last month.<\/p>\n

He was believed to have shot himself on the same porch of their home, and his death was also investigated as a suicide.<\/p>\n

McCready, whose list of problems only continued to grow in 2013, had attempted suicide in the past.<\/p>\n

The singer entered court-ordered rehab earlier this month after her father told a judge she was no longer taking care of herself or her children and was abusing drugs and alcohol.<\/p>\n

Her sons were put in foster care at the time, but it was not clear where Zander, 6, and 10-month-old\u00a0Zayne were when McCready died.<\/p>\n

The death of Wilson, a record producer, had hit \u00a0McCready hard.<\/p>\n

In interviews, she called him her soul mate and a caregiver to her sons, saying she had never gone through anything as painful as his death.<\/p>\n

“I just keep telling myself that the more suffering that I go through, the greater character I’ll have,” she said in interview with NBC.<\/p>\n

News of McCready’s death spread quickly on Twitter, with major country stars paying their respects to the onetime Nashville darling.<\/p>\n

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Yellow crime-scene tape blocks off the front of a home in Heber Springs, Ark., where country singer Mindy McCready was found dead in an apparent suicide on Sunday, Feb. 17, 2013. She was 37.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

“Too much tragedy to overcome. R.I.P Mindy McCready,” wrote Natalie Maines of The Dixie Chicks.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

In 1996, her Guys Do It All the Time hit No 1 and its dig at male chauvinism endeared her to females.<\/p>\n

Her other hits included Ten Thousand Angels, also in 1996, and her album by that title sold 2m copies.<\/p>\n

She spent the next 15 years chasing another hit as personal problems began plaguing her.<\/p>\n

Her problems included a custody battle with her mother over one of her sons, an overdose and discord in her love life.<\/p>\n

McCready took her older son, Zander, from her mother and the boy’s legal guardian, Gayle Inge, in late 2011.<\/p>\n

She fled to Arkansas without permission over what she called child abuse fears.<\/p>\n

Authorities eventually found McCready hiding in a residence without permission and took the boy into custody.<\/p>\n

She and Wilson had a son, Zayne, in April 2012. The older son’s father is McCready’s former boyfriend Billy McKnight.<\/p>\n

In May 2010, she was put in hospital briefly after police responded to an overdose call at a home in North Fort Myers, Florida, owned by her mother.<\/p>\n

This followed a stint on Celebrity Rehab With Dr Drew, where she declared herself to be clean from drugs. She is the fifth celebrity appearing on that show to have died.<\/p>\n

But her troubles began earlier. In 2004, she was charged with obtaining the painkiller Oxycontin fraudulently at a pharmacy. She pleaded guilty and was placed on three years’ probation.<\/p>\n

She violated the probation with a drunken driving arrest in May 2005.<\/p>\n

A few days after that arrest, she had a physical fight with McKnight and he was charged with attempted criminal homicide.<\/p>\n

The charge was later downgraded to misdemeanour assault after McCready changed her story and he spent 30 days in jail.<\/p>\n

Then she attempted suicide in July 2005, overdosed in September 2005 – while pregnant with Zander\u00a0– and slit her wrists in December 2008.<\/p>\n

Also that year, McCready was charged in Arizona with hindering prosecution and unlawful use of transportation.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

In July 2007, she was arrested in her home town of Fort Myers, Florida, on misdemeanour charges of scratching her mother on the face during a scuffle and resisting sheriff’s deputies.<\/p>\n

In June 2008, McCready was arrested and charged with violating her probation by falsifying her community service records relating to the 2004 drug charge.<\/p>\n

A month later, she entered an extended care facility for undisclosed treatment, and followed that with a 60-day jail sentence.<\/p>\n

In early 2010 she hoped to get her career restarted, write a book about her experiences and begin production on a reality show. She felt she’d finally gained some control over her life.<\/p>\n

“It is a giant whirlwind of chaos all the time,” she said.<\/p>\n

“I call my life a beautiful mess and organised chaos.<\/p>\n

“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.<\/p>\n

“I think that’s really the life of a celebrity, of a big, huge, giant personality.”<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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