Troubled country singer Mindy McCready has been hospitalized after what appears to be her second suicide attempt this year.
McCready, who was treated at a Texas rehab center this summer after an attempt to kill herself, was taken to a Nashville hospital yesterday morning with wounds to her wrists, according to local police officials.
The attempt comes at the end of a tumultuous year for the 33-year-old singer, who went public in April with claims that she was the other woman in an adulterous affair with superstar pitcher Roger Clemens. She claims to have met Clemens when she was 15, he was 28. Clemens has never acknowledged such a relationship took place; and Mindy's own mother said the relationship was a friendship.
Nashville police last night said that McCready, whose legal first name is Malinda, called her assistant, Brent Young, at 7:50 a.m. to say she needed him to come over, because "she had done something bad." Young arrived at 10:15 a.m. "and discovered that she had cut her wrists and taken several pills." McCready was taken to Centennial Hospital, according to the report.
McCready suffered what she called a "nervous breakdown" in July and entered into rehab. She was released in September.
A prescription drug problem has landed her in jail twice. She most recently served time for violating probation after a drug arrest. Last month, she told "Inside Edition" she was optimistic about her future. "Redemption is out there for everybody to get, and just watch me. I'm gonna show you how to do it."
We're watching, Mindy. And get well.
Source: Newsday
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