Creed's Scott Stapp reportedly skipped a mental health hearing that a court required him to attend. The scheduled appearance was supposed to be a chance for officials to propose Stapp spend some time in a psychiatric treatment facility. The singer made headlines in November after posting multiple videos in which he claimed he was broke and living in his truck.
A few days ago, it was reported that Stapp recieved a $1.5 million advance for his last solo effort, 2013's Proof of Life. He, along with Creed bandmates Mark Tremonti, Brian Marshall and Scott Phillips, reportedly received $3 million in advance of 2009's Full Circle. Stapp's stories of mysterious sources draining his bank account and not receiving royalties from his record label seem a bit sketchy now.
The singer's mental health came into question earlier in November when police in Madison County, Florida, found him on the side of the road looking inebriated and rambling incoherently. He was placed in a 72-hour psych hold, and his wife, Jaclyn, asked that he be put in an additional psych hold after the videos started surfacing. GossipExtra notes that Stapp can be involuntarily committed to a psychiatric facility for having missed his recent court date.
The singer appears to be sober in the video messages, but there is no way of telling what his true state of mind is.
"I'm sure you've heard the many rumors and slanderous, libelous accusations over the last few weeks," Stapp said in one video. "First, I was dead ... Then there were rumors that I'm on drugs and drinking and relapsed and in rehab, all these other things. That's also a lie ... I'm sober as can be."
Stapp also said that he was starting a crowdsourcing campaign to raise $485,000 to fund his next album.
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