Monday, September 26, 2005

Mind McCready and D'Angelo, crazy before fame or after fame?

What is it about celebrity that makes celebrities go crazy? Is it the fame and money that make them crazy or is that they have always been crazy and the crazy people are the only ones who become celebrities? I bet Merlin would love a shot at some of these people.

The first one that should be examined closely is country singer Mindy McCready. She was a hot country singer as well as a HOT country singer (even now she is still a very pretty woman) who had a few hits in her time. Instead of trying some sort of comeback or follow up, she has been in and out of trouble with the law. She has had incidents involving drugs like oxycontin she claimed she was getting for a “friend.” She was nearly killed by her on again off again boyfriend and now the father of her baby, assuming McCready doesn’t kill the baby before it is born. This woman has pretty much thrown away everything she ever had.

The reason I bring up McCready today is because she has ODed again. This is the second time in just a few months and apparently it is for the same reason. She obviously does not want to be pregnant. She is in the hospital and by all reports she will survive, but something needs to be done about this. It is bad enough she wants to kill herself, but now she is trying to kill her unborn child. Which when you look at things, mom is a druggie with serious emotional and mental problems and dad has beat up and tried to strangle mom, maybe this child would be better off not being born.

I hope that something can be done because this is a waste, especially because country music loves these kinds of stories. Hell, country music was built on these kinds of stories. I think that if McCready could just get a handle on her demons she could make one hell of a comeback. First she should probably dump her homicidal boyfriend and go into the most intense rehab she kind find. If she can come back from this horror of a life she is living than she could comeback from anything.

Speaking of crazy celebrities, I just saw the Yahoo story about the R&B singer D’Angelo having been in a very serious car accident. He is listed in critical condition and no one knows any other information about it. Knowing the singer’s history it would not be surprising to find that he was driving under the influence of something.

This is another celebrity that was on top of the world. He won Grammys and VMAs and was the hottest singer and then just disappeared. He turned up in a mug shot looking more like ODB than D’Angelo. He was busted for DUI and possession of marijuana.

These are just two examples of celebrities gone crazy. What is it? Crazy after fame or crazy before fame, that is the question. Maybe Merlin has some insight.

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