Where is creed now

Many of these-not-so-fun facts about Stapp are harrowing, but he has worked hard to get his life back on track. In fact, the once-disgraced rocker has many positive things going for him; h e revitalized his career and has a supportive and loving family who has stuck with him through his darkest times.

In , Stapp posted a video online in which he said the government was after him. He told Loudwire: " I was in a parallel universe , man. I thought I was freaking Jason Bourne It was scary and it was so real to me.

I really thought government agencies were tracking me and trying to do experiments on me and people were tapped into my cell phone and computer.

It was scary. He also reportedly began sending frightening text messages to his wife, Jaclyn. One text read, "Florida is not safe.

Biological weapons on the way. U have to leave with kids and meet me in Atlanta. No mercy. You know how this ends. God created you and now God is ending you. He was apparently so serious about the threats that the Secret Service paid him a visit. He told the Chicago Tribune , "They came and checked things out. They showed up and asked me questions. The Secret Service evidently didn't think Stapp was a threat, so they left him be. After Creed's third studio album, Weathered , was certified six times platinum in , Stapp's substance abuse worsened.

He stopped taking Percocet, Xanax, and the steroid prednisone, but he was still drinking heavily. He said of the time, " I wanted to end my life. One night while he was home alone, he slammed whiskey and grabbed two MP5 machine guns. He decided to become a "Kurt Cobain martyr-type," believing his death would help sell more records. After putting the guns to his head, he saw a photo of his 4-year-old son and decided to shoot up the house instead, hoping to destroy all the awards he'd won with Creed.

After Creed disbanded in , Scott Stapp embarked on a solo career that was derailed by his drug and alcohol abuse. In , he ran into the band at the Harbor Court Hotel in Baltimore, Maryland, and ended up getting into a fist fight with most of the group. The band's singer S. Martinez said, "We had just finished dinner and were at the hotel bar to watch the Lakers game when Scott Stapp walked in being very loud and obnoxious.

Things came to a head when Stapp sat down next to Martinez and his wife and made a rude comment to her. When 's drummer, Chad Sexton, asked Stapp to calm down, the former Creed frontman threw a punch that hit Sexton and Martinez's wife.

This caused Martinez and 's bass player to also get involved. Stapp's girlfriend tried to sit on him to keep him from getting up, but eventually hotel security threw him out. No charges were pressed. Which then led to, you know, the addiction and the other issues.

Following a period of intensive therapy, Stapp and his wife Jackie, who married in , began rebuilding their life together, and Stapp supplemented his sobriety with a diet and exercise regimen that he keeps to this day.

Routine has become crucial; daily running, drinking plenty of water and eating unprocessed foods has helped Stapp maintain his focus and shed close to 40 pounds. In person, he appears lean and muscular, a cross colored in across his right bulging bicep. He speaks openly about his depression, and feels encouraged by how the conversation around mental health has evolved in the music community over the past decade.

I can hear it on the work that I did during that period. What is the proper technique of singing? What is the proper and best way to take care of my voice, to give me longevity?

How can I get better at my craft? The one rule he laid out while making the album was to be unrelentingly honest, even if the tone turns self-lacerating at times.

So I took that aspect of what I wanted in my personal life, and wanted that in my studio experience. The Space Between The Shadows is not designed as a swan song -- Stapp wants to keep releasing solo albums, and knows that it will take time to slowly rebuild his reputation within the rock community. In a little less than two months since its release, the album has sold 10, U. Regardless of its commercial performance, Stapp says that the release has been an overwhelming experience for him and his family.

Stapp expects a handful of them to greet him after the show and thank him for sharing his story of hard-fought sobriety, as is the case at every tour stop. Stapp has led a band that has sold over 20 million albums, and if he never sets foot on another arena stage again, these recurring interactions have become more meaningful to him anyway.

When those rumors popped up, he says he began getting weekly blood and urine tests, "just in case somebody tried to call me on the carpet on it, I could prove it. Stapp says the IRS has frozen his accounts and that someone changed the online passwords to his bank accounts, then transferred out all his money.

Neither Stapp's label, Wind-Up Records, nor a Michigan management firm called Wild Justice Music, which lists him as a client, immediately returned a request for comment. Creed has sold more than 25 million albums in the U.