Posted on 09/24/2005 8:34:49 AM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Country singer Mindy McCready was hospitalized after overdosing on antidepressants early Friday following a quarrel with the father of her unborn child. She was in fair condition Friday afternoon, officials said.
According to a police report, McCready and William McKnight were arguing on the phone about whether his parents would help pay for the pregnancy. He cursed at McCready and she became angry and took about 30 antidepressant pills, the report says.
After McKnight called her back and she didn't answer, he called police and an ambulance.
McCready's lawyer did not return a phone message to his office.
McCready, 29, has had a series of legal and personal problems in recent months, including a drunken driving arrest in Nashville, a suicide attempt and an arrest in Arizona on charges stemming from her involvement with a con man she said she was trying to help police catch.
McKnight was also charged earlier this year with trying to kill her. McCready said he punched her in the face and tried to choke her.
Last year, McCready was charged with obtaining the painkiller OxyContin fraudulently at a pharmacy. She pleaded guilty and was placed on three years' probation.
McCready had a No. 1 hit in 1996 with "Guys Do It All the Time."
I understand she is depressed but she is also pregnant and has that responsibility to consider.
What an idiot, she hasn't even given a though to what she is doing to the baby. She should be institutionalized, or whatever we have that is the equivalent of institutions, until the baby is born. The baby should then be adopted out to people who really want a child. I just hope it isn't too damaged by her behavior to have a full and happy life.
Great. What kind of harm has she done to her baby now?
extremely serious.
She just got the break of a lifetime when a local judge here gave her probation again for multiple violations of earlier probations.
Any man would have gotten at least a year behind bars but her being preggers by some loser saved her.
She is a complete moonbat.
I feel sorry for her, I don't think anyone would screw up this much on purpose.
Sounds like another unfit mother ... you'd think that just for a moment she would think of her unborn baby ... those pills certainly weren't helpful to that baby.
Wonder if they will charge HER with something or because she is the "mother" get a free pass for endangering if not an attempt to murder the baby too because she was a tad upset over getting pregnant.
Country Music's Answer to Janis Joplin (sp?)
The answer I hear the majority of the time is "But he's getting better!" That or, "he's going to change....I just know it."
This woman is her own worst enemy and has been for a LONG, LONG time. I live in the Nashville area and I know this woman's history.
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