In 1997, McCready became engaged to actor
Dean Cain; the couple ended their engagement and separated the following year. McCready also dated then-
NHL hockey player
Drake Berehowsky. In December 2003, she began dating aspiring singer William Patrick "Billy" McKnight. On May 8, 2005, McKnight was arrested and charged with attempted murder after beating and choking her. After reporting to
People magazine that she had cut ties with McKnight, McCready was found unconscious in a hotel lobby in
Indian Rocks Beach, Florida, after attempting
suicide in July 2005. She was hospitalized for a drug overdose after consuming a large amount of undisclosed drugs with alcohol. Despite this, the couple soon got back together and McCready became pregnant. In September 2005, while she was pregnant with McKnight's child, she attempted suicide again by overdosing on
antidepressants. In March 2006, McCready gave birth to a son, Zander Ryan McCready. On December 17, 2008, paramedics were called to McCready's Nashville home after an apparent suicide attempt; they transported her to a hospital after finding wounds on her wrists. In 2009, she joined the cast of
Celebrity Rehab 3 with Dr. Drew Pinsky. On May 25, 2010, McCready was hospitalized in
Cape Coral, Florida, for a possible drug overdose; she may have had a reaction to
Darvocet her mother had given her. She was released later that day and returned home. A pornographic videotape of McCready and an ex-boyfriend referred to as "Peter" went on sale by
Vivid Entertainment in 2010. In April 2012, McCready gave birth to her second child, a son named Zayne. The child's father, record producer David Wilson, was found dead on January 13, 2013, at McCready's home, of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. The Cleburne County, Arkansas, sheriff's department opened an investigation into Wilson's death. Following Wilson's death, McCready released a statement in which she referred to him as her "soulmate" and "life partner".
Roger Clemens affair In April 2008, the
New York Daily News reported a possible long-term relationship between McCready and baseball star
Roger Clemens that began when she was 15. Clemens' attorney admitted that a relationship existed but described McCready as a "close family friend." He also stated that McCready had traveled on Clemens' plane and that Clemens' wife knew McCready. In November 2008, McCready spoke in more detail to
Inside Edition about her affair with Clemens. She stated that their relationship lasted for a decade, ending when Clemens refused to marry her. Additionally, McCready said that she was 16 when they first met and that the relationship didn't become sexual until several years later.
Legal issues In August 2004, McCready was arrested in
Tennessee for using a fake prescription to buy the painkiller
OxyContin. Although she initially denied the charge, she pleaded guilty and was fined (), sentenced to three years of
probation, and ordered to perform 200 hours of
community service. In May 2005, McCready was stopped by Nashville police for speeding, then arrested and charged with
driving under the influence and driving with a suspended license. A jury later found her not guilty on the charges of DUI but guilty of driving with a suspended license. That July, she was charged in
Arizona with
identity theft, unlawful use of transportation, unlawful imprisonment, and hindering prosecution. An arrest
warrant was issued for her the following month for violation of her probation when she left Tennessee without her probation officer's permission. She was also charged with not reporting to her probation officer during July. She was finally arrested in Florida and returned to Tennessee. She faced a hearing later that year on charges of violating her probation on a drug charge by failing to check in with her probation officer and leaving the state without permission to go to
Florida. In July 2007, McCready was arrested in her hometown of
Fort Myers, Florida, and charged with battery and resisting arrest for an apparent scuffle with her mother. The following week, she was taken into custody at the
Nashville International Airport for violating probation. In September, McCready was sentenced to a year in jail for violating probation. In addition to the jail time, she was ordered to serve two more years of probation and perform 200 additional hours of community service. She was released from jail in December. In June 2008, McCready was arrested in Tennessee for violating the terms of her probation set in September 2007. Sentenced to 60 days in jail, McCready turned herself in on September 30, 2008. After serving half of her sentence, she was released early for good behavior on October 30, 2008. McCready was associated with and allegedly victimized by con man Jonathan Roda. The case was featured on the 2012 episode "
Got to Make You a Superstar" of the series
I (Almost) Got Away with It. ==Death==