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Country singer McCready overdoses
« on: Jul 26^th, 2005, 2:10pm »

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Country singer McCready overdoses
'Guys Do It All the Time' singer hospitalized in Florida

Tuesday, July 26, 2005; Posted: 11:27 a.m. EDT (15:27 GMT)

NASHVILLE, Tennessee (AP) -- Troubled country singer Mindy McCready has been hospitalized in Florida after an overdose, according to authorities.

McCready, 28, was found unconscious Friday in a hotel lobby, according to authorities in Pinellas County, Florida. An incident report did not list the nature of the overdose.

Last week, McCready was charged in Arizona with identity theft and other counts. Within the past two years, she has also faced allegations of driving under the influence and a drug violation.

Dennis Tomlin, who had been her attorney until midday Monday, declined comment on the singer's situation Monday night except to say the singer has retained another lawyer.

Tomlin said earlier Monday that McCready had gone to Florida "to visit her mother when she found out about the potential charges in Arizona. The stress got to her and she ended up in the hospital."

He said then that she was in intensive care.

Details concerning the charges filed last week in Mohave County, Arizona, were not immediately available. Besides identity theft, charges against McCready included attempted fraudulent scheme and artifices, unlawful imprisonment and hindering prosecution.

Tomlin said last week that the singer was helping Arizona authorities apprehend a con artist who had bilked her and other celebrities out of large sums of money.

He did not elaborate on the details and declined to discuss them Monday night.

In May, McCready was charged in Tennessee with driving under the influence and driving with a suspended license. She also told of abuse she had allegedly received from an ex-boyfriend at a hearing. McCready had been severely beaten May 8.

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

She was scheduled to be in a Williamson County court Monday for a probation violation hearing. A judge ordered Tomlin to produce an affidavit from her doctor by Wednesday.

McCready had a No. 1 hit in 1996, "Guys Do It All the Time."

Copyright 2005 The Associated Press.

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Re: Country singer McCready overdoses
« Reply #1 on: Jul 27^th, 2005, 7:08am »

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I had no idea who this was, knew the name but couldnt put a face to the name untill now. Went and found a pic.

That was shocking to read. What went wrong with this girl. Dont have time now but Im going to check on more info later.

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« Reply #2 on: Jul 27^th, 2005, 10:01am »

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McCready had a No. 1 hit in 1996, "Guys Do It All the Time."

The operative word here is "HAD #1 hit in 1996".

That's 9 years ago!
At one time she was engaged to Dean Cain.
From what I remember she broke off the
engagement to concentrate on her singing career.
Looks like she should have stayed with "Superman".

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« Reply #3 on: Jul 27^th, 2005, 12:04pm »

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Every now and again, when I happen to catch it, I like to listen to "Loveline" which is a show with a doctor and a comedian, where they take calls from people about various subjects and just discuss a lot of various stuff. One recurring theme on the show is addiction (drug or alcohol) and I was listening the other night and they were talking about how some people who seem to have clean and normal lives become drug addicts overnight as a result of genetic predisposition to being an addict and some kind of event where pain pills are prescribed. The thing that stuck with me was they commented that some people are literally "just a car wreck away" from being an addict. Having had various pain medications prescribed to me over the years, I know this is not the case with me, but when you all are saying, "what happened to this girl!" it makes me wonder about what they said...

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This could be true Rhune, I know the drug OxyContin, not personally but it has hurt alot of ppl's lives, very hard to get off when given for pain, very additive. Any news on how she is doing?

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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 US 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 drunk driving and driving on a suspended licence.

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.

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on Jul 27^th, 2005, 1:27pm, Colleen wrote:

This could be true Rhune, I know the drug OxyContin, not personally but it has hurt alot of ppl's lives, very hard to get off when given for pain, very additive.

In East Tennessee, around the mountainous rural regions (appalachian mtns.) local pharmacies have quit stocking oxycontin because of all the break ins and armed robberies.....

Locals call it "hill billy heroin"

oxycontin is bad news.....

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