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County Sheriff: Famous Country Music Singer Found Dead in Apparent Suicide

Feb. 17, 2013 11:08pm Erica Ritz

Famous Country Music Singer Mindy McCready Found Dead of Apparent Suicide

In this undated file photo, country singer Mindy McCready performs in Nashville, Tenn. McCready, who hit the top of the country charts before personal problems sidetracked her career, died Sunday, Feb. 17, 2013. She was 37. (Photo: AP)

(TheBlaze/AP) — Mindy McCready, who hit the top of the country charts before personal problems sidetracked her career, died Sunday. She was 37.

Waren Olmstead, the coroner in Cleburne County, Ark., said McCready passed away in Heber Springs, but couldn’t immediately provide further details.

The Cleburne County Sheriff’s Office added, according to Fox8:

“At 3:31 PM, Sunday, February 17th, deputies from the Cleburne County (Ark.) Sheriff’s Office were dispatched to a report of gun shots fired in the area of 1132 Fox Chase Drive in Heber Springs. Officers arrived on the scene at 3:58 PM and discovered the body of 37 year old Melinda Gayle McCready on the front porch of the residence at 1132 Fox Chase. Ms. McCready was pronounced dead at the scene from what appears to be a single self-inflicted gunshot wound…

McCready arrived in Nashville in 1994 with tapes of her karaoke vocals and earned a recording contract with BNA Records. In 1996, her song “Guys Do It All the Time” hit No. 1, and its dig at male chauvinism endeared her to women nationwide. Her other hits included “Ten Thousand Angels,” also in 1996, and her album by that title sold 2 million copies.

Here’s the music video for “Guys Do It All the Time”:

Personal problems began plaguing McCready in 2004, resulting in a custody battle with her mother over one of her sons. The singer took her older son Zander from her mother and the boy’s legal guardian, Gayle Inge, in late 2011, according to the Associated Press. 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.

That same year, she was charged with obtaining the painkiller OxyContin fraudulently at a pharmacy. She pleaded guilty and was placed on three years’ probation. A year later, she violated the probation and was arrested for drunk driving, attempting suicide soon after. In 2008, she tried to kill herself again by slitting her wrists.

It was also reported in 2008 that McCready was involved in a long-running affair with baseball star Roger Clemens.

In this CD cover image released by Iconic Records, Mindy McCready’s, “I’m Still Here” is shown. (Photo: AP)

In May 2010, after being hospitalized for overdosing, McCready appeared on “Celebrity Rehab With Dr. Drew,” declaring herself clean from drugs. But after her boyfriend David Wilson died roughly a month ago, she reportedly collapsed into a downward spiral.

“Since boyfriend shot himself she has been in bed for 3 wks,” her father said in court documents according to E! News. “Sleeps all day. Drinks all night and is taking Rx drugs. Not bathing or even helping take care of her 2 children.”

Her children are 6 years old and 9 months old, respectively. Wilson was the father of the youngest. E! News adds that her father had been staying with her, but returned home this morning.

“She was in good spirits and seemed to be fine” when he left, a source said.

The county sheriff’s office says there will be a complete investigation into the matter.

Yahoo! News released this report after the death of McCready’s boyfriend:

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JarheadX
Posted on February 18, 2013 at 5:37am
As I write this my best friend’s girlfriend of 12 years ( a blackout drunk) is in the middle of a 7 day country club “shake n bake” rehab. After 48 hours, she started calling him to get her out of there… she feels better physically. Utterly clueless that’s it’s about sobriety, NOT a temporary fix.
The fact that this guy’s MOM died last night means little to her; like most addicts stuck in their addiction it’s all about her feelings.
In 20 years I have NEVER seen a person stay clean/sober without the help of a support group of recovering people who have “been there and done that”. Mental health professionals and CDACs are of zero help once you walk out that door. IMHO, no one who hasn’t been an addict should even be able to get a CDAC certification- pontificating on the strength of their academic credentials is worthless once you hit the streets.

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- Kupo
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 5:59am
  B.S. Nicotine is one of the most powerfully addictive drugs available and people quit all the time. I myself was a 1-2 pack a day smoker for ten years and quit cold turkey ten years ago and haven’t had the urge to smoke since. Prior to that I was practically a professional user of hard drugs and once it came time to have a serious career I quit all that crap without a moment’s hesitation and, again, haven’t looked back. It’s all about willpower and whether or not you actually want to quit. As long as the will is there, the follow through is easy. At least, that was my experience.
  
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- ElDeVerde
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 6:42am
  @KUPO
  Amen. I was a THREE pack a day smoker and quit cold turkey on my 50th bday. I went anaphlaxic 3 times from nicotine withdrawel in 48 hours before I was put on steroids to keep me breathing. I didn’t use gum, friends, support groups or my mommy. We have been trained by academia that we are crap without the “professionals” to show us what we should already know if we have a brain. When anyone I know tells me they would “like to quit” whatever they are in love with I know it won’t happen. You have to “WANT TO QUIT” whatever controls you before you can suceed. While I don’t subscribe to “natural selection” situations such as this come very close. Too many people have bought into the crap that they are too weak to suceed on their own.
  
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- SpankDaMonkey
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 6:44am
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  This girl was a small fry and a drink shy of a happy meal……
  
  Probably got hold of some of Clemens roids……
- ElDeVerde
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 6:45am
  @KUPO
  By the way I was a 21/2 to 3 pack a day smoker for 29 years…but I quit cold turkey. Anyone can quit anything if they REALLY WANT TO!
  
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- Kupo
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 7:06am
  Good for you! I have respect for anyone who quits, while having very little for those who toy with quitting. In my opinion, if you want to quit then good for you, and if you want to keep using then that’s fine too. I don’t have anything against people that smoke or drink or use drugs. Hell, if it wasn’t for the fact that most professionals get regular drug tests I would probably still be regularly smoking marijuana and doing the occasional ecstasy or cocaine. So drug users don’t bother me, although I do find it pathetic when someone lets their hobby, so to speak, enslave them to exclusion of all else.
  
  But what REALLY bothers me are those people who, supposedly, try and try and try to quit when they’re really just lying to themselves and don’t have any honest desire to quit at all.
  
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- Gonzo
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 7:13am
  I agree with the O.P. Rehab is fine, but what keeps you sober is what you do after rehab. You’re not going to be “cured” after a month long stint in rehab. You’re never going to be “cured”, but you can get reprieve one day at a time. Some folks figure it out. Sadly, the vast majority don’t.
  
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- Kupo
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 7:23am
  Do you have any experience in the matter, Gonzo? Because I have quite a bit of experience and I can tell you with certainty that addiction can absolutely be cured.
  
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- Kupo
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 7:24am
  Without any rehab, I might add.
  
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- loriann12
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 7:27am
  @ KUPO, it’s not necessarily will power. Some people have an adictive personality, getting addicted easliy. I had a 2 pack a day habit (cigarettes, obviously) and quit almost cold turky. I decided on my last pack, and made that pack last 2 weeks. Never bought another one. That was almost 20 years ago. My husband on the other hand, is like the old joke: Quitting is easy, I’ve done it dozens of times. It took him getting bronchitis, thinking he had lung cancer, to cause him to throw his smokes out the window, almost 5 years ago.
  
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- Cronpolis
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 7:43am
  Its Bush’s fault and then if it isn’t Bush’s fault it is Global Warming.
  
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- Gonzo
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 7:58am
  You’re not cured Kupo. If you think you are, take a few drinks and report back in 6 months about your progress. You will never be cured in the sense that you can drink like a gentleman again. Now, you can not drink and you have a reprieve, but that’s not cured. I agree that rehab isn’t necessary btw.
  
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- Kupo
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 8:03am
  Loriann
  
  I agree that some people are more susceptible to addiction, but I believe that their susceptibility is directly related to their willpower. Take your husband for example. Notice how quickly he was able to quit once he actually had a reason to do so. In other words, once he actually truly wanted to quit he was able to.
  
  But it’s people making claims like JarheadX, who believes that unless you are part of a 12 step program and have a therapist that you are doomed to a lifetime of substance enslavement; or Gonzo, who believes that addiction is a permanent affliction that can one can never be freed from; that really bothers me. Such claims are simply not true.
  
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- Kupo
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 8:17am
  Gonzo, I’ve never had a problem with alcohol. I do occasionally drink beer, and I never ever ever ever have the urge to get drunk. As far as cigarettes are concerned, I am NOT addicted anymore. Were I still addicted then I would find them to be on my mind and to be tempted to go back to them. I can honestly say that they are never on my mind and I am never tempted to go back to them. The only times I ever really think about cigarettes are when I’m in line at the gas station, see them lined up behind the counter, and wonder why I ever smoked in the first place.
  
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- Gonzo
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 8:41am
  Well, that’s what I have been talking about since my first response.
  
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- kadster01
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 8:56am
  @JARHEADX
  “In 20 years I have NEVER seen a person stay clean/sober without the help of a support group of recovering people who have “been there and done that”. ”
  
  Then you don’t know many people. The statistics don’t lie. The majority of people who quit their addictions do so without any help from meds or support group cults who tell them their only one drink away from a relapse. I do know a couple, personally, who have done so, One is my uncle who drank hard and chain-smoked for 40 years. He’s in his mid-80′s now and healthy as a horse.
  
  http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/200407/the-surprising-truth-about-addiction
  
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- Kupo
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 9:11am
  Kadster
  
  I will go one step further and say that the mentality that these cultish support groups peddle, that you are always one step away from a relapse and that your condition is going to be a lifelong struggle, are actually detrimental to recovery. Think about it – if someone believes that their addiction is something that can never be beaten, that the best they can hope for is a neverending process of suppressing their urges, they are much more likely to throw in the towel, because who wants to fight an uphill battle for the rest of their life? On the other hand, if someone believes that their addiction can be cured there is a much higher likelihood that they will succeed since they aren’t sabotaging themselves with the poisonous defeatism that clinics and rehab centers would instill them with. Rehab centers don’t want to cure people. They want people to have lifelong struggles because that’s the best way to milk them for as much money as possible.
  
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- kadster01
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 10:02am
  @KUPO
  
  Exactly. It never takes long for an AA, or other recovery group, disciple to come out of the woodwork when there is a story like that and start claiming that addicts are permanently tethered to their addiction and the only way to stay sober is to “keep coming back.” In my experience, they disrespect those who have taken the initiative to quit on their own and are succeeding (which are the majority, as already pointed out). They diminish their success by suggesting that some trigger or other, like a boogeyman, is one day going to catch them off-guard and they’ll involuntarily pour poison into their bodies again. They almost appear to WANT them to fail if they don’t join the cult. I just don’t waste my time arguing with them anymore. The objective is to stay sober. If they have found what works for them, I’ll grant them the respect they won’t grant me.
  
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- Gonzo
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 10:09am
  Kupo ” I do occasionally drink beer, and I never ever ever ever have the urge to get drunk.”
  You’re not an alcoholic then and that is what I am referring to.
  
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- Gonzo
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 10:18am
  Kadster ” In my experience, they disrespect those who have taken the initiative to quit on their own and are succeeding” Everyone who quits “quits on their own” whether they are in AA, rehab or just white knuckling it. Unless you are physically restrained from using, you are quitting on your own.
  
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- kadster01
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 10:49am
  @GONZO
  
  “Everyone who quits ‘quits on their own’ whether they are in AA, rehab or just white knuckling it. Unless you are physically restrained from using, you are quitting on your own.”
  
  One does not always end up at AA or rehab on one’s own. The court system is very skewed toward the addiction model and remands people who get caught to attend 12-step recovery. In some areas now, they are offering other alternatives, but in most places, they are not.
  
  Be that as it may, many probably do submit to AA or rehab or mediation voluntarily. That’s fine and I wish them well. My point is, I know a lot of AA’ers who argue with me incessantly that I am going to fail unless I agree with them and join AA. Those are the ones to whom I am referring.
  
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- Mandiedapple
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 12:46pm
  I quit smoking six weeks ago, and cold turkey. For years I tried to find an easy way out. Patches, gum but never cold turkey. I can’t say exactly how I got passed it; I do believe it was pure beautiful grace, because I did not want to quit (I did, but I didn’t) and lot’s of hard cinnamon candies. I prayed for the will, I prayed for help; and now, I am free. God performed a miracle with me. I didn’t even plan the quit. I just did it. Planning my quits was always this long drawn out horrible process for me.Just the countdown would make me nuts. Anyways, I am only six weeks in, but I go days and I don’t even think about a cigarette, which is huge. It’s my longest quit, and about 2 weeks in, I knew I had it. I am grateful not to be a slave to it anymore. I’m even running now, lol. I also am not confused that not everyone comes to this conclusion the same way. We are complex and varied, some for whatever reason need bumpers, some just go straight, and some miss a few… hundred times (like me) before they get it right. A person’s quit is a very personal and individual journey.
  I pray for Mindy McCready, that she is at peace with her Father. I pray that the beautiful lives she leaves behind get the protection and guidance they need.
  
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- Kupo
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 3:13pm
  Gonzo
  
  Right, I’m not an alcoholic, but I was a heavy smoker for a number of years and the urge to relapse has never reared its head. And it’s not like I distance myself from smoke or smokers. I have friends and co-workers who smoke all of the time and I’m constantly around it. Yet not one single time have I ever even had a momentary urge to have a cigarette. That’s how I know that my addiction has been cured and it’s NOT something that I’m going to have to struggle with for a lifetime. That’s my entire point for you.
  
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ai4px
Posted on February 18, 2013 at 5:33am
4th attempt at suicide successful ….and so ends the custody battle between she and her mother for the children. She has declared herself unfit.

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- SouthSideGirl
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 7:26am
  She didn’t declare herself unfit, She declared herself ‘tired’ … with no one to stay by her, talk to her, understand her, She obviously felt lost. Home her mom’s happy now.
  
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HOOT_OWL
Posted on February 18, 2013 at 2:20am
So sad. I don’t care what anyone says or thinks . You remove God from a family.
And Satan has a field day and all hell breaks loose.. You remove God from a country,
it’s the same thing only on a bigger scale.

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- AbrahamsSheepdog
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 4:15am
  And we are just warming up. 0 is a curse. God help us.
  
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- Thomas
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 6:02am
  Someone else is to blame for our actions even God’s angels? How rebellious we really are. Suicide is the ultimate actions of hate for the Spirit of Life. We don’t like fault finders and that is why the wicked has sought to place blame God’s angels instead of where the blame really lies. Evil didn’t originate in heaven but right here with man who was given dominion over the physical. The fact remains that Satan remains the prosecutor in God’s holy court while Jesus is our intercessor who willingly took the blame as long as we accept our guilt first and then confess them. Any other ideas is rooted in duality and therefore paganism. It just goes to show how far theology is from God and who ever disagrees with us is then deceived. We have taken the wars we cause down here on the planet and then projected them into heaven (the realm of eternal peace) and God even allows us to interpret the bible this way as a test of what we are really after. No wonder it is written the letter kills but the Spirit gives Life. We actually tell on our self where our words originate whether we are peacemakers or not. The peace that peacemakers connect us with is the Peace of God’s kingdom permanently and continuously. There is nothing to war over in heaven for their is no boundaries nor are any time or darkness in which to plot a rebellion. Only man was given to eat of the TREE of Knowledge of tov and rah or good and evil not angels. Heaven is permeated with God’s love so much so that there is
  
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Lone Wolf99
Posted on February 18, 2013 at 1:34am
May her kids find the love in their grandmother’s arms & may Mindy R I P

As for THE JACKEL ERR ******* may you learn a little compassion toward others

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okieqt
Posted on February 18, 2013 at 1:33am
So tragic. I think it’s a statement on the mental health profession/industry. She had such a detailed past of problems, went further out of control after the death of her boyfriend, and her father, with no training in the field of mental health, was left to care for her and determine when he could safely leave her and return to his life. She obviously should have been committed to a mental health institution. Not one of these voluntary country club settings that pass as “rehab” these days, but a full mental institution. Do they even exist anymore?! People (many homeless and unable to speak for themselves) need treatment.

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- D-Fence
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 2:18am
  Within the confines, of the Constitution of the United States. So, this will happen again to some other celeb. Tragic for all involved.
  
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- HOOT_OWL
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 3:05am
  She was ‘ordered’ by the judge to rehab ,then it was over-turned.
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  “In agreeing to McCready’s “involuntary admission” to an appropriate facility, the judge wrote that “there is cause to find there is clear and convincing evidence that Respondent is in imminent danger of harm to herself or others, suicidal or gravely disabled.”
  
  However, just a day after being ordered by a judge to enter a treatment facility for a mental-health and alcohol-abuse evaluation, the troubled celeb was released to undergo outpatient treatment instead.”
  
  http://www.eonline.com/news/389186/mindy-mccready-country-singer-dead-at-37
  
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- okieqt
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 12:11pm
  Absolutely D. I didn’t know that Hoot. Thanks for the link. Too bad the judge’s orders weren’t followed.
  
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californiakhg
Posted on February 18, 2013 at 1:29am
wow, so so sad. addiction is cunning, baffling and ohhhhhh soooo powerful when left on its own. Heroin is so nasty and oh so powerful. What it does to the emotional strength of people is truly scary. Once a strong person emotionally then one day cant go through a cold without crying. I wish they spent as much money in research for addiction as they spend on cancer research. By the grace of god there go I….. I am clean for over 4 years thank god.

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Lovesmesomeglennbeck
Posted on February 18, 2013 at 1:26am
What a waste of talent. I listened to this woman’s music when I was a kid, part of my childhood is gone.

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mellowlady
Posted on February 18, 2013 at 1:16am
Good riddance to a piece of human garbage. Next.

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- HOOT_OWL
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 2:32am
  Lord ,I pray the children of this tragic story,
  don’t grow up to be as bitter as mellowlady.
  Amen
  
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thejackal
Posted on February 18, 2013 at 12:45am
Sorry lady, no sympathy. I’ve had struggles with the booze and such. Very hard to set the bottle down at times, however, since my boys were born I knew it was time to smarten up! Wallowing in self-loathing and drowning yourself in booze and Rx’s is your fault and no one else’s. Making the decision to check out and leaving your children without a mom is LAME! Although it sounds as though you were a lousy mother so maybe your kids will be better off. Never heard your music, any way enjoy hell, you earned it!

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- sharkee
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 1:17am
  Dude , walk a mile in someone else’s shoes, only then can you SPIT your ****.
  
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- TheCalmOne
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 1:21am
  What a disgusting apology for a human being you are.
  
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- Lovesmesomeglennbeck
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 1:22am
  Be Respectful during a tragedy.
  
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- Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 1:28am
  I pray for your soul.
  
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- jman-6
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 1:51am
  Jackal- Deducting from your comments I presume if she is in hell you’ll join her if you fail to wise up
  
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Big Media Bias
Posted on February 18, 2013 at 12:41am
Everyone knew this was going to happen. You can’t fight and beat heroine. Everyone dies from it. Everyone in the music industry knew she was going to die from drugs.

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- RIDEMODELS
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 1:42am
  Everyone who knew of her knew this was going to happen, she had a lot of issues as I am sure everyone in this country has issues…..The one thing people need to take from this is if you find yourself in this bad of a condition and there is any way that you might be able to find help from family etc. then please do it…..I have been at the bottom and had to take RX just to cope with my work, but I have never ever thought about killing myself…Life is too precious and we should enjoy every minute of it…Nothing in this world is worth taking your life over and I can bet that there is a church somewhere that can help you with your issues, maybe not solve them but they can help…..She needed help as I know many people out there do, but the only way I have ever looked at this is like a Marine would look at this problem, a Marine out in the field has god and his gun, no alcohol and no pills to fall back on…..It takes a lot of self loving and believing things will be ok to get away from drugs and alcohol and I would never ever say I could do it on my own. But I am a much much stronger person now because of it and I am willing to help others that may show an effort.
  
  I tutored math to a 21yr old young Mexican girl who was losing her life to dialysis and the need for a kidney transplant, but she never gave up and that is someone I always think about if I wanna go out to the bar. She could not have one drink with her health….ever. All she wanted was college.
  
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sweetieboat
Posted on February 18, 2013 at 12:41am
Let’s remember that mental and emotional pain is hard to get past. We can see someone suffer from cancer and know the release in their death, but sometimes we don’t see the pain in such a good looking healthy couple.
I have learned that there is physical addiction and they go to rehab, but the emotional and mental addiction is hard to come though. We can be genetic addicts of body or/and of mind and emotions. There are those who want so badly to live and cannot reach where life must be lived to make sense of it. I believe that life needs to have purpose or be justified to live. I hope that God met her and gave her the choice to live at heaven’s door.

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SilentReader
Posted on February 18, 2013 at 12:38am
RIP Mindy McCready. My condolences go out to her family and her friends. Very sad indeed!

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hrzjr
Posted on February 18, 2013 at 12:31am
Have been down a similar road in life. My spouse and I made it out, not unscathed, but alive. Unfortunately, many do not. There but for the grace of God go I ……….. How true. RIP Mindy.

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- Witness1974
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 1:36am
  “There but for the grace of God go I.” This is true. I am a little taken aback by those who express no sympathy at all for this woman. When I read such messages I think, “There’s a person who doesn’t realize what a sinner they are.” It’s pretty obvious this poor thing’s life was really messed up. Got news for you folks: That’s what Satan likes doing to people. He knows our weaknesses and he knows how to take advantage of them and get the sin ball rolling. Sure she sinned in taking her own life; it is a selfish thing to do. She has let everyone around her down. But for every one of her sins I can catalogue, I can think of two of my own. Yes, thank God for His grace. Thank God for His undeserved mercy.
  For still our ancient foe
  Doth seek to do us woe;
  His craft and power are great,
  And armed with cruel hate,
  On earth is not his equal.
  
  Did we in our own strength confide,
  Our striving would be losing,
  Were not the right Man on our side,
  The Man of God’s own choosing.
  Dost ask who that may be?
  Christ Jesus, it is He;
  Lord Sabaoth His name,
  From age to age the same,
  And He must win the battle.
  –Martin Luther “A Mighty Fortress Is Our God.”
  
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ZaphodsPlanet
Posted on February 18, 2013 at 12:24am
Sorry, but how disgusting and selfish.

Great way to show you care about your kids isn’t it? By putting a bullet into your own brain.

Just vile. My Yahweh help her kids overcome what she did to herself.

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- TSUNAMI_22
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 12:35am
  Wow, compassionate.
  
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- thejackal
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 12:48am
  @ Tsunami, yeah compassionate of Mc Cready to check out and leave her kids to NO ONE! She is a POS and needs no “sympathy.” Her children need the sympathy.
  
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- HYPNOTOAD
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 2:00am
  Please stop calling God Almighty “Yahweh”. It’s not in the bible people.
  
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- Ben__Franklin
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 6:57am
  She was deep in depression and not thinking rationally. Her kids never entered her mind. To her, she was all alone.
  
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- RedSpotinaBlueState
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 12:37pm
  I feel exactly the same way. The youngest kids father killed himself so the BEST thing she could think of was to do it too? How freaking selfish. I guess the kids are better off than to be raised by two such selfish people. They wouldn’t have had a chance with these two. I was a big Mindy McCready fan in the 90′s, now I would never admit to that again.
  
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JUSTANOTHEROPINION
Posted on February 18, 2013 at 12:12am
What waste of life, so sad. My heart goes out to the family.

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- RIDEMODELS
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 1:45am
  My heart goes out to the family……But there is no reason any mother should need to take their own life and do something like this to children…..This whole country is under a great deal of pressure but the way I look at things is the way a Marine would look at it, out in the field there are no drunk nights and no pills, maybe once they get back home it changes, but you gotta think like a Marine in the battle field and you gotta survive sober.
  
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Xanderson
Posted on February 18, 2013 at 12:10am
RIP Mindy, may the peace that eluded you be found by your innocent babies.

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iluv2bfree
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 11:51pm
I don’t even like country music but remember “Guys do it all the Time”. Many (maybe most) artists of all types are troubled people. Sad to see anyone make a mess of their life. Hard for us “normal” people to understand how successful people can fail so badly on the personal front.

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Brasil2520
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 11:51pm
We are only 8% of world population, so to see one of our own like this is a big loss

RIP

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Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 11:43pm
Not so famous that I have ever remembered any of her songs. Not that I follow Country music these days, since it has become a haven for bands that couldn’t make it in the Pop scene.
God bless her children and may He keep them.

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- DLV
  Posted on February 17, 2013 at 11:54pm
  Anonymous- your picture here makes it seem like you are heavily country.
  
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- Farmhand82
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 12:14am
  Its hard to see on my tiny phone screen, but I THINK his picture is Crocodile Dundee.
  
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- Anonymous T. Irrelevant
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 12:58am
  Crikey, it’s 1am. I am going to hit the sack. See ya manana!
  
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- Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 1:31am
  Agreed Anonymous:
  
  May God watch over her family. It is just so sad when someone hits bottom and think that is the only way out. I will pray for her family.
  
  For all you haters, I will also pray for your souls, that God will show you how to be gracious and show compassion.
  
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Brooke Lorren
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 11:40pm
I’ve never heard of her, but it’s sad when people get into drugs and hurt themselves with it.

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- CatB
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 12:43am
  We have had a lot of news regarding her life and custody of her children .. her mother lives in the Tampa area … I hope that her children will now be allowed to have a more normal life .. sorry but that is something that Mindy did not seem to be interested in. May she rest in peace … and God bless her children.
  
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TH777
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 11:39pm
Has any one else noticed that it took the police 27 minutes to get to her house?

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- Southerner01
  Posted on February 17, 2013 at 11:54pm
  When seconds count, the police are just (27) minutes away!
  
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- Marci
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 12:11am
  That is a little odd. Granted, the area around there is all hills, forest and lake, but it should not take that long! I spent a weekend at the Red Apple Inn (just down the road from the address she was at) and it bothers me that should there be a problem….
  
  My brother in law likes to hold his annual Christmas party there every year for his company.
  
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sooner12
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 11:36pm
Beautiful woman with much to give thanks. Before I brought up the article I just knew it was her. May she rest in peace.

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JSnake
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 11:28pm
Shots? Plural?
Shooting oneself not typical means for women.

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- UNALIEN
  Posted on February 17, 2013 at 11:32pm
  Apparently she shot her dog
  
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- Advection
  Posted on February 17, 2013 at 11:33pm
  Not it’s not, but apparently she had tried to commit suicide several times before, and her boyfriend blew his brains out a few weeks ago, so it’s not surprising in this case.
  
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everydaywoman
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 11:24pm
So sad. May God be with her family and children.

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denkat56
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 11:21pm
RIP. A life of trouble brought to an end. God bless her family and friends.

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