JUDGE REFUSES TO GRANT MCCREADY’S GAG ORDER REQUEST
A judge has refused to grant MINDY MCCREADY’s request for a court order t o prevent her mother talking to the press.
The star, who has a history of alcohol and drug abuse, was reportedly f ound unconscious at her mum’s home in Fort Myers, Florida on Tuesday morn ing (25May10).
Her mother, Gayle Inge, called for help, suggesting the singer had atte mpted to commit suicide.
The singer’s spokesman, Brent Young, has since played down the incident , revealing McCready simply experienced a bad reaction to the pain pills she had been prescribed after breaking her toe on Sunday (23May10).
McCready filed legal papers earlier this week (beg24May10) alleging Ing e claimed she had tried to commit suicide in a bid to ruin her chances of gaining custody of her son.
McCready’s attorney James Moon tells E! News, "The reason we were reque sting a gag order against Gayle Inge is really obvious. I think she’s giv en five or six stories now. First, it’s an overdose, then it’s a suicide, then she’s retracting those statements. Enough’s enough, basically." But the judge denied the singer’s request to issue an emergency gag ord er against Inge, as well as her bid to swap her mother’s custody rights o ver her four-year-old son Zander to her father, Tim.
The judge has kept the option open for an appeal at a later date.
Moon adds, "We kind of expected the judge’s ruling to deny both. But we wanted to get the point out to everybody that Mindy’s trying to do every thing to get her son back and is making great strides. And we wanted to g et the point out to everybody that there is a little kid involved here." McCready lost custody of Zander in 2007 when she was jailed for violati ng probation after allegedly assaulting her mum in a fight over the singe r’s drinking and drug addictions. She was given permission to reopen cust ody proceedings last week (beg17May10).
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