Police say McCready overdosed on pills; in fair condition

She was taken to by ambulance to St. Thomas Hospital where she was in fair condition Friday afternoon, hospital officials said.

According to a police report, McCready was talking to her boyfriend, William McKnight, on the telephone when they began arguing about whether McKnight’s parents would help pay for the pregnancy.

McKnight is charged with trying to kill McCready in a violent attack earlier this year.

In the phone conversation, McKnight cursed at McCready and she became angry and took about 30 antidepressant pills, the report says.

After McKnight called her back and she didn’t answer, he called police and an ambulance.

A Nashville emergency communications official said two 911 calls were made. The first was 2:14 a.m., but emergency crews went to the home and found McCready to be fine. A second call came at 4:04 a.m. and she was taken then to the hospital.

McCready’s lawyer did not return a phone message to his office Friday.

McCready, 29, has had a series of legal and personal problems in recent months, including a drunken driving arrest in Nashville, the alleged beating by McKnight, an arrest in Arizona on charges stemming from her involvement with a con man she said she was trying to help police catch, and a suicide attempt.

Last year, McCready was charged with obtaining the painkiller OxyContin fraudulently at a pharmacy. She pleaded guilty and was placed on three years’ probation, and currently faces charges of violating that probation.

McCready testified in court this week that she learned she was pregnant after trying to commit suicide. Complications from the pregnancy were cited as reasons she was released from jail on bond to await trial on the probation violation charge.

Pinellas County, Fla., authorities said they found the singer unconscious from a drug overdose in a hotel lobby on July 22. McKnight was with her.

McCready had a No. 1 hit in 1996 with “Guys Do It All the Time.”