Creed singer Scott Stapp placed on psychiatric hold before desperate video plea

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Rocker Scott Stapp was placed under a 72-hour psychiatric hold two weeks ago, TMZ reported Friday.

The gossip site allegedly obtained a Madison County Sheriff's Department report stating that officers found Stapp on the side of the road on November 13 in an apparent intoxicated and delusional state.

The Creed frontman is in the midst of a divorce from his wife of eight years, Jaclyn, with whom he has two children. According to TMZ, legal documents show that Jaclyn claimed Stapp has hallucinations, has threatened suicide and the murder of his AA sponsor, and believed his child's school would be attacked by the Islamic State.

The former Miss New York also said that Stapp abuses steroids, marijuana, cocaine, PCP, ketamine, crystal meth, and several prescription drugs.

Stapp, 41, released a video on Facebook on Wednesday, claiming that he is sober, but broke and homeless.

"About eight weeks ago I began an audit of not only my record company, but my personal finances," he explained. "During the course of that audit, a lot of things were uncovered. A lot of money was stolen from me, or royalties not paid. And that's where all hell began to break loose."

The singer said that a death hoax and rumours about his sobriety were planted by the same people who allegedly stole his money.

"I've even been threatened that if I went public, like I'm doing right now, that any impropriety, or anything that I've ever done in my past, that these individuals can get their hands on," he claimed.

The IRS has allegedly frozen his bank account, and Stapp said that he is currently living in a Holiday Inn. He also reported sleeping in his truck for the "past couple of weeks," and not eating for two days because he had no money.

Jaclyn claimed that he is destitute because of substance abuse issues, but reportedly withdrew a petition to have him committed.

Stapp has one other child from a previous marriage.

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