Mindy McCready Dead of Apparent Suicide
by Snooki Stackhouse at .Troubled country singer Mindy McCready was found dead of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound on Sunday afternoon. She was 37 years old.
Police were called to her Arkansas home and found her on the front porch.
Dateline NBC's Andrea Canning tweeted, "Just got a call from Mindy McCready's best friend that she shot and killed herself this evening. My heart breaks for her two boys. RIP."
Despite a popular country music career in the 1990s, lately McCready has made headlines ever since for one bizarre incident after another.
Most recently, she's been in the news after her record producer boyfriend David Wilson also died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound last month.
McCready entered rehab after David Wilson's death, which she denies playing a role in, and has three previous suicide attempts of her own.
Wilson and Mindy McCready had a son Zayne together; he is less than a year old. McCready also has son Zander from a previous relationship with Billy McKnight.
A source has told TMZ that the singer shot her dog as well.
McCready's family has yet to release an official statement.
Our thoughts and prayers are with her loved ones.
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This person was self center and did not think how here kids is going to deal with the weak shit.
I feel bad for her. She must have been very unhappy. Maybe her boyfriends suicide drove her over the edge, but how could she just abandon her children like that?! Maybe she thought they were better off without her. I could never do that to my children. And what the hell did the dog do. Well, at least she didn't kill the children. That seems to be a sad phase thats going on.
seasiren770 I agree with you....it is very sad but a depressed unhappy soul can easily descend into great darkness.I shutter @ the thought of her shooting he children as well.What did the dog do to take it's life?dang!
Mindy was a beautiful woman. What a total waste of a life. To kill yourself over what or who is SAD... When people say DRUGS took over her life, to me, that's an excuse. I pray for her family. So tragic. Maybe now she can finally have the peace she needed so desperately. R.I.P.
First of all Mindy was a coward. (sorry), but when anyone kills themselves, they are selfish, cowardly, & don't care about their loved ones who are left behind. In her case, she has small children. She was also greedy only thinking of herself & her love life. I don't want to sound mean, but the reality show "Dr. Drew's Rehab" or whatever it was called was & is a JOKE. Five people already have died. This guy should NOT be on the air any longer. What good was he? He couldn't help anyone of them. Very sad....My prayers do go out to her family.
I agree. Also, I've said this on more than one occasion...as far as I'm concerned, suicide is such a SORRY-ASS COP-OUT!!!!! And, yes...VH-1's "Celebrity Rehab With Dr. Drew" is such a JOKE. And, that other one (Sober House) is no better. To me, Dr. Drew himself is such a passive IDIOT who emotionally coddles those spoiled-ass celebrities WAY TOO MUCH!!!!! As for VH-1 themselves, all they care about are DRAMA and (most of all) RATINGS!!!!! SUCH ASSHOLES!!!!!!!