Country singer Mindy McCready's body was found due to an apparent suicide on the same porch that her boyfriend was found dead of suicide last month.
The Associated Press reported that in a tragic turn of events it appears that McCready killed her boyfriend David Wilson's dog before she killed herself with a gun. McCready and the dog were found dead at the home in Herber Springs which is about 65 miles north of Little Rock.
It hasn't been officially determined that Wilson's death is a suicide and the official cause of death for McCready will be released soon with authorities indicating that it points to a suicide.
McCready rose to fame in the 90s and her hit "Gus Do It All the Time" was no.1 in 1996.
McCready's ex boyfriend Billy McKnight told authorities that it was likely her death was a suicide as she had threatened to kill herself earlier in the month when she lost custody of her sons. She also spent time in rehab.
Fox News reported that McKnight who shares a son with McCready said that she was in a court ordered rehab center for substance abuse for only about 18 hours before she checked out.
Currently McKnight's son is in foster care and he is working with authorities to get him out. Fox Nes reported that fame was hard for McCready and she spent many years of her life trying to stay in the spotlight and had many personal problems including a custody battle with her mother of her two sons as well as an overdose in 2010. NPR reported that she was hospitalized after police responded toa n overdose call at a home in Fort Myers, Florida that is owned by her mother. She was then on "Celebrity Rehab With Dr. Drew" where she said she was clean from drugs.
In 2004 she was charged with obtaining OxyContin fraudulently from a pharmacy and she pleaded guilty. She was placed on three years probation at the time but violated it when she was arrested in 2005 for drunk driving, reported NPR. "In July 2007, she was arrested in her hometown of Fort Myers, Fla., on misdemeanor charges of scratching her mother on the face during a scuffle and resisting sheriff's deputies," reported NPR.
McCready was only 37 years old at the time of her death. NPR reported that her late boyfriend's death hit her hard. She called him her soul mate and caregiver to her sons in an interview with "Today" on NBC.
"I just keep telling myself that the more suffering that I go through, the greater character I'll have," she said during the interview.
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