14 DAY TRIAL // Rocker Scott Stapp, formerly the vocalist for platinum selling band Creed, one of the biggest acts of the ‘90s, has posted a 15-minute video on his Facebook page, making a series of very shocking revelations: he’s broke because people have been stealing from him and he had no idea about it, he’s homeless, and he’s under attack by people who want to run him and his reputation into the ground.
You can see Stapp’s statement in the video below. Its stated purpose is to bring to light everything wrong that’s been happening to him for years, but especially in recent months, and to convince his fans to lend him a helping hand.
Stapp needs legal representation and he’s positive he can get it from among his fans because, he promises, he has everything necessary to build a case – and win it.
He’s clean and sober, don’t believe anything else you hear or read online
Stapp states in the video that he’s been clean and sober for a very long time, despite ongoing rumors stating the contrary. He explains that this horrible experience began for him a few weeks ago, when he started to look closer into his finances, both personal and with the record company.
He was stunned to see that someone (or more people, he wouldn’t say) has been stealing from him, to the point where he’s now completely penniless. Like, he doesn’t have a dime to his name anymore. Stapp claims he’s speaking out of a hotel room where he’s at “by the grace of God” because, not long ago, he was actually living out of his truck.
Things are bad, he insists, so bad that he actually went two days without eating just recently and he ended up in the emergency room.
Because he no longer has any money, he needs help with securing legal representation. He wants to go after the people who robbed him of his fortune and after the IRS, which froze his accounts because of clerical error. Stapp’s estate was once estimated at $10 million (€7.98 million) but right now, he doesn’t even have a few bucks for a decent meal.
Stapp claims he’s under attack, but won’t name names
As if all these money problems weren’t horrible enough, the rocker, who is a reformed Christian (and “proud of it,” he assures fans), is also dealing with a very dirty campaign to slander him. He uses the video to let his 2 children know that he’s not back on drugs, despite claims made by his wife in the divorce papers some weeks ago.
There is someone close to him who’s spreading nasty lies and who’s working overtime to kill his reputation, after all this time he spent trying to make amends and prove that he’s a changed man.
Creed came apart in 2004 officially, but they were already done by 2002: Stapp’s raging drug and alcohol addiction was partly to blame, because it made working with him impossible, as per statements of the band members at the time.
In the same video, the rocker also laments the state in which things in America are right now, a country where thieves can make away with a lot of money by simply stealing passwords and not be prosecuted to the full extent of the law, and where the IRS can take whatever’s left of the money, admit to the clerical error but not do anything to make it right.
Is Stapp really off drugs?
Here’s where things get a bit more complicated. Stapp’s wife filed for divorce some weeks back, claiming in court documents that he’d been doing so much meth and cocaine that he’d become a paranoid shell of his former self.
He would constantly threaten to harm her or himself and would plague her with messages that bespoke his sense of paranoia, including about how Florida “was not safe” anymore because there were “biological weapons on the way,” or how Alcoholics Anonymous was actually controlled by the CIA.
Perhaps the most revealing bit about this shocking report is the fact that officials for the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office are telling TMZ that they did a “wellness check” at Stapp’s home last week, where they found him with his wife, and “all was well.” So he can’t possibly have been living out of his truck for weeks or on the streets, as he claims in the video.
