Mindy McCready: Country Music Star Falls From Top of Charts to Rock Bottom

Mindy McCready was living the dream of thousands of talented, beautiful, wanna be country music stars. For some reason though, Mindy McCready is failing to take advantage of the gift that has been given to her. Trouble seems to be following Mindy McCready wherever she goes these days. To say that Mindy she seems to be a woman whose life seems to be slipping beyond her control is an understatement.

McCready first broke into country music when she was 18. She got lucky when she met Nashville producer/songwriter Norro Wilson who was impressed by her talent. Wilson sent her demo tape to David Malloy, another Nashville producer. He helped Mindy McCready cut her first record and come up with a record deal. Her debut album, Ten Thousand Angels, was released in 1996 and went gold a year later.

Singles such as "Guys Do It All The Time," made her an instant star in the world of country music but she has sense found it hard to equal that earlier success. In 2002 after a failed album, Capital records dropped Mindy McCready out of disappointment over the lack of success of album sales.

Her hit album, "A Thousand Angels" was a collection of songs that gave the impression that McCready would turn into an icon of independence and self-reliance. Her life over the last year has shown her to be anything but that and more than likely a woman suffering severe emotional distress and the syndrome that so many battered women find themselves victims of.

The problems started in August of 2004 when Mindy McCready was arrested and charged with one count of prescription drug fraud, which is a class D felony. She had presented a fraudulent prescription for the drug OxyContin in February 2004 to a pharmacy in Brentwood, Tennessee. The prescription was filled and she left the pharmacy with the OxyContin.

McCready plead guilty in that case on November 29, 2004. She was fined $4,000, sentenced to three years supervised probation and ordered to perform 200 hours of community service.