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Country singer McCready hospitalized on overdose fears

CAPE CORAL: Mindy McCready was treated at Cape Coral Hospital Tuesday after her mother feared the country singer had overdosed on prescription medication.

Her mother, Gayle Inge, tells NBC2 that McCready broke her toe on Saturday, and that Inge gave her the painkiller darvocet.

Inge told NBC2 she found McCready incoherent, sitting at the computer in Inge's North Fort Myers home.

"I just started talking to her and she wasn't talking real clear," Inge said.

In the 9-1-1 call, Inge described McCready as "in and out."

"There was a lot of Darvocet in the bottle, I don't know how many she took, but she's claiming she took a lot," Inge said to the 9-1-1 operator. "I let it go for just like an hour, I didn't realize how many pills she took."

The hospital says McCready is in good condition, but she will be admitted and spend the night.

The troubled star appeared in family court in Lee County last week in an effort to regain custody of her four-year-old son.

At that time, McCready said she had cleaned up her act.

"I am a completely different person now. I love my child. My child and I deserve to be together. The mistakes I've made are going to make me a better parent," she said at that hearing.

During the hearing, her attorney presented evidence McCready was experiencing success in her battle against substance abuse.

Prior to that, the Department of Children and Families had taken her four-year-old son Zander and placed him in the care of McCready's parents after the singer's substance abuse problems resurfaced in 2008.

By Meaghan Smith