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Mindy McCready's touching last song was almost Carrie Underwood's

Many artists have that one song that they will always be remembered for more than the others. Kenny Rogers has The Gambler (as well as so many others), Taylor Swift has Tim McGraw, Tim McGraw has Indian Outlaw. Mindy McCready of course has Ten Thousand Angels, but since her death she's now being associated with the song she recorded not long before her death, I'll See You Yesterday, a song she recorded in hopes it would help people dealing with a suicide in their lives.

Now it's come to light, though, that it was actually Carrie Underwood who had first dibs at the song. 

The song's writer, Courtney Dashe, spoke with RumorFix and explained how Mindy ended up with the song. 

“Carrie had the song ‘on hold,’ which means she liked it and was thinking about recording it.”

Then the songwriter met Mindy at a writer’s night in Nashville a few years ago. Courtney shares, “After the show, she came up to me with tears running down her face. She said something to the effect of, ‘Your song, ‘I’ll See You Yesterday,’ I have to record that song. That’s about my life … what’s going on with that song? I have to record it.’”

Mindy’s longtime producer, Eric Shawn Carnes tells RumorFix, “The song spoke to her. It was a lot of what happened to her in the past.”

Then Carrie released the song and, “I let Mindy know that it was hers and a few months later she recorded it,” Courtney said.

Now that we know how Mindy's story ends, I can't imagine anyone but her recording the beautiful song. 

A Mindy McCready update

As happens when something tragic happens, details have been emerging rapid fire regarding Mindy McCready's final days leading up to her death last Sunday. 

Here's a few of them.

The most important bit of information that's come out I think is that it turns out that Mindy was never a suspect in her boyfriend's death. 

It had been reported that Mindy was under investigation in the death of her boyfriend, David Wilson, after he died of a gunshot wound last month. The story went that she kept changing her story about how she found Wilson and that made police suspicious.

According to TMZ, however, Mindy was never a suspect and wasn't under investigation. Cleburne County Sheriff Marty Moss tells the website that Mindy was never considered a suspect or person of interest and that she "never changed her story."

A porn company with a heart ... company stops distributing Mindy McCready sex tapes

When a celebrity dies, there are always people and companies lining up to make a quick buck. That's why this story is so surprising. 

Back a couple of years ago, a sex tape made it's way to the public that featured Mindy McCready and a former boyfriend. Mindy originally said she didn't make the tape but then it was proven that she was actually paid for it and agreed to have it released.

Now that Mindy has passed away, you'd think that the porn company, Vivid, would attempt to profit from her death like so many others will do, but you'd be wrong. 

According to TMZ,Vivid has made the decent decision to cease distributing the DVDs immediately and indefinitely and according to Vivid Entertainment head honcho, Steve Hirsch, the company has no plans to resume distribution.

Congratulations to Vivid for being the porn company with a heart. 

Mindy McCready was writing an autobiography when she died

As most everyone is aware of by now I'm sure, Mindy McCready sadly and unsurprisingly took her own life (and that of her dog) yesterday on the same porch in Heber Springs, Arkansas where her boyfriend and father of her youngest son died of a gunshot wound just last month. 

While most of us will never understand what was going through Mindy's mind when she decided to turn the gun on herself, it turns out that when she died she was attempting to shed light on the demons that had haunted her for most of her life by writing a book. 

Back in January of 2012, Mindy had tweeted about the autobiography she was working on. 

Here's an overview of a future book about my life story. I'll post chapter excerpts periodically. Watch for them!! mindymccreadyfans.com/overview-futur…

— Mindy McCready (@mindymccready) January 19, 2012

In the excerpt she referenced, Mindy wrote:

The following is an overview of a future book about my life.

I haven’t had a hit in almost a decade. I’ve spent my fortune, tarnished my public view, and made myself the brunt of punch line after punch line. I’ve been beaten, sued, robbed, arrested, jailed, and evicted. But I’m still here. With a handful of people that I know and trust, a revived determination, and both middle fingers up in the air, I’m ready. I’ve been here before. I’m a fighter. I’m down, but I’ll never be out.

This book is not about shifting blame. I know I’ve made mistakes and I take full responsibility for those mistakes. This book is part diary, part therapy, part confessional, part job, and part apology. But mostly, I just want people to understand me better. So when people like Nancy Grace or the TMZ parasites pass judgment, they can do so with the full story.

So here it is, the story of Mindy McCready. My story.

Please remember, this is only an overview of the book. I’ll be posting chapter excerpts periodically.

___________________________________________________________________

Some people have lived such extraordinary lives that their story begs to be written as the rest of the world waits for the chance to peek in at the fame, fortune, violence, scandal, and shocking behavior from a safe distance.

I am one such person.

Mindy McCready Commits Suicide

Well, it appears everything got too much for the troubled starlet. It has been reported that the 37-year-old mother-of-two shot both herself and her dog yesterday (February 17^th), and her body was found after the sound of gunshots alarmed neighbors. This is after the apparent suicide (inflicted by gunshot wound) of her boyfriend David Wilson (who was also the father of her youngest son, who is 10 months old), followed by Mindy falling into alcohol-fuelled depression. Her children were taken into care just a week or so ago, and Mindy was first committed to inpatient care for her problems, quickly being moved into outpatient because everything has apparently been put into perspective for her.

Unfortunately, it was not to be. With a history of violence, trouble with the law and alcohol and prescription drug abuse, sadly I am almost not surprised that Mindy chose to end it. Sometimes the price of fame is too much, and we can only hope that Mindy’s family can pull together for the love and stability of the children she left behind.

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The Mindy McCready Drama Unfolds...

After I informed you of the investigation potentially enquiring whether Mindy McCready murdered her boyfriend, David Wilson, it seems everything has gotten a whole lot sadder. It was announced yesterday that Mindy’s two children, aged 6 years and 9 months old, were taken into care by Arkansas authorities, with today it emerging on The Boot that Mindy has been committed to a mental health facility by a judge for 21 days, following a hearing. An ‘insider’ claims she has also not stopped drinking since the passing of her boyfriend, as she is struggling to cope with the loss. With Mindy’s tainted history, it’s sad but unsurprising to hear.

Autopsy results are yet to surface to determine whether Wilson’s death was a suicide or not (as originally stated). It’s all very sad, and I send my best wishes to everyone involved and hope they get things sorted.

But what do you think of all this? Let us know in the comments.

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Mindy McCready... A Murderer?

Well, it transpires that what seemed simply a sad story of suicide to hit the country music blogs last week may have a little more to it. Recently it was announced that Mindy McCready’s partner, David Wilson, had died at the age of just 34, and with a 9-month-old son by Mindy. In the following days it was revealed by Mindy’s spokesperson as a suicide via gunshot, and after the public condolences to Mindy and family, it seemed like that was it for that sad bit of news.

But it seems we were wrong.

According to this article, there are suspicions arising about a possible murder. Although Mindy has not been named as an official suspect by any means, the article gives rise to rumors by highlighting the speed in which her spokesperson claimed it was a suicide, when it could take weeks for a state crime lab to come to a conclusion and no-one involved in the investigation announced anything. People are currently looking into the statement Mindy made to the police and whether she may have had anything to gain financially from her boyfriend’s death. Of course, this is all speculation and a few words from Fox News and The Enquirer, but it does feel alarmingly Courtney Love-Kurt Cobain ish (which I must state was officially ruled a suicide). Considering Mindy’s history with violence, her own suicide attempts, depression and constant run-ins with the law, it possibly doesn’t place her on good footing to begin this supposed investigation.

I am making no allegations but it’s definitely a storyline I did not expect. I can imagine there will be more to come in the next few weeks/months so I guess we will have to wait to find out more.

Posted by Vickye (Guest Writer).
If you want to check out my own blog it's For The Country Record, and you can follow me on twitter @planmymistake. You can email me at vickye.countrymusic@gmail.com.

Mindy McCready seeks huge reward in National Enquirer suit

Remember back in June when we learned that Mindy McCready was suing the National Enquirer and her mom over an article the magazine ran back in June called “Shameful Mindy McCready Doesn’t Deserve To Have Child Back?” She was also suing her mother for being the source for the article. 

At the time we didn't know exactly how much in damages Mindy was suing. 

Well I just found out the damages she's seeking and it's a doozy!

The Palm Beach Post reports that Mindy is seeking $50 million (yes, million) in damages from the rag mag for publishing "the false statements" that "created the grossly misleading implications with actual malice knowing that the article was false, or with a reckless disregard for the truth," attorney Andrew Douglas wrote in the lawsuit filed Monday.

In other words, liar, liar, pants on fire. 

Honestly, I don't find the lawsuit sad in the least because if the magazine published things that weren't true then by all means they should have to pay.  Heck, I don't even find it wrong that Mindy's suing her mom because seriously, who the heck teams up with the National Enquirer against their own daughter like that?

Nope, the thing I find sort of delusional and kind of funny is that Mindy claims in the lawsuit that was filed Monday in Palm Beach County Circuit Court, that the things the magazine said has caused her to lose "at least $50 million worth of business opportunities as a result of the litany of negative - and false - claims the weekly newspaper made about her."

Uhhhh.  OK.  

Mindy McCready's tellin' ghost stories

Well it's time to check back in with country's troubled soul, Mindy McCready.  Thankfully this story's has nothing to do with suicide attempts, drugs, or anything else sad like that - instead it has to do with ghost stories. 

Fun. 

I actually meant to post about this like a month ago when I first seen the preview, but I never got around to it.  Anyway, Mindy McCready appeared two weeks ago on Bio channel's Celebrity Ghost Stories. 

You can watch the first part of the video is here, Mindy's main section is here (but starts at the end of the first video), and the last section of the show is here. 

Mindy McCready's back and she's got a bone to pick with a few people

Mindy McCready's had more than her fair share of personal issues in the past, but that doesn't mean that the tabloid press should be able to print awful untruths about her, at least that's what a new lawsuit Mindy's filed says. 

The saddest part, Mindy's also suing her mother. 

Last month the National Enquirer published a story that entitled “Shameful Mindy McCready Doesn’t Deserve To Have Child Back.”  The always-questionable Enquirer wrote the story using information provided apparently exclusively by Mindy's mom, Gayle Inge, information that Mindy says was one-sided, untrue, and were simply printed to hurt her.   

That's why she's chosen to sue her mother along with American Media, the parent company of the Enquirer and other tabloid entities.  

“What is shameful and heartbreaking is the unhealthy relationship I have endured with my mom over my lifetime. With the help of friends and therapy, I have realized how detrimental the relationship has been for me and I’ve worked hard to detach. I’ve tried to keep my personal life from being public,”McCready stated.  “But, every time I take a positive step forward, make healthy, personal decisions and move forward in my career, it seems my mother uses it as an opportunity to step into the picture to deflate me…to become the focal point…to use the press to step into the spotlight—at my expense.  In all honesty, I’m saddened it has come to this; but this is not a one-time, single event—to sell her ‘stories’ to The Star, The Globe and Radar Online. [Publications all under the American Media, Inc. umbrella.]  It has just got to stop, for me and my son.”

No word on how much money Mindy is seeking in the suit, but it probably doesn't really matter since tabloid magazines have a history of just settling these pesky lawsuits out of court to make them go away.  

Makes a person glad to not be famous, eh?

Full press release after the jump...