Honestly, it’s true. Almost exactly a year ago to the day, country singer Mindy McCready was arrested for apparently beating her mother up, and now she’s been admitted to rehab following a nervous breakdown and possible overdose.

McCready’s breakdown comes after the revelation that she’s had a 15-year affair with US sports star Roger Clemens. So what can we expect from Mindy McCready in July 2009? It’s a tricky one to predict – mother-punching and nervous breakdowns are notoriously hard to top. We don’t think she’s abused any animals so far – maybe that’s an avenue.

We might be wrong here, but we’re starting to get the impression that Mindy McCready is the next step in human evolution. She’s like a walking, talking pocket-sized version of hecklerspray. Seriously, think of any story we’ve ever covered and Mindy McCready’s already been there.

Christian Bale allegedly slapping his mother about? Mindy McCready was there a year ago. Madonna allegedly having an affair with a famous sportsman? Mindy McCready’s apparently been doing that for 15 years. Jamie Lynn Spears’ youthful sexuality? Believe what you read and you’ll see that Mindy McCready has done that too, and with the sports star we were just talking about.

Going to rehab like every other celebrity that’s ever lived? Turns out that Mindy McCready is already on the case as well.

But maybe we should spool back a little. If you’re not a country fan – and we’re guessing you’re not because you can read – then maybe you only know Mindy McCready as the drug-abusing motherslapper country singer. When, in actuality, there’s so much more to her than that – she’s a drug-abusing motherslapper country singer who admits to an affair with baseball player Roger Clemens that started when she was 15.

Never the most stable of individuals – she’s got a suicide attempt, a jail sentence and an engagement to Superman under her belt already – the discovery of her secret affair with Clemens sent Mindy McCready over the edge. And that’s why she’s in rehab. People reports:

After a trip to the emergency room in Tennessee, country singer Mindy McCready entered rehab for undisclosed reasons, her rep tells PEOPLE. “Mindy McCready did receive emergency care at Vanderbilt University Medical Center,” says her rep. “Other issues made it prudent for her to seek longer-term and broader-based treatment.”

It’s not been made clear what Mindy McCready is actually in rehab for – if it’s to fix all of her problems then we might not see her again for a decade or two.

So let’s hope that Mindy seeks treatment for the problem that’s caused the most pain in her life first. It’ll be a painful journey, and sometimes she’ll regret even embarking on it, but if she knuckles down and absolutely dedicates herself to it, perhaps one day Mindy McCready will have beaten her addiction to being a country singer.

And then we discovered that Kirsten Dunst is apparently on the verge of a giant Britney-style nervous breakdown.

It's the cosmic balance in action. Britney gets better, Kirsten Dunst goes a bit batshit. By God, Vanessa Hudgens must be praying that Kirsten Dunst never gets better.

Scientists and physicians have spent centuries trying to get the bottom of mental illness by studying the various ticks and traits that add towards an accurate diagnosis. But they missed one very obvious symptom – if you ever find Johnny Borrell from Razorlight even slightly attractive, then you're clearly as loopy-doolally batshit cuckoo as they come. 

Kirsten Dunst was once Johnny Borrell's girlfriend. So, you know, already it's not looking great for the girl. 

And now it seems that the repressed psychological wounds that come from having a boyfriend who prances around in a pair of his mum's white jeans all day have started to kick back. It's been reported that Kirsten Dunst looks set to become the next celebrity to have a full-on wibbling breakdown. PageSix reports:

Kirsten Dunst's strange ways have tongues wagging that she's "on the verge of a breakdown." The starlet came late, left early and "acted erratic" during a recent event at Sundance, according to insiders. The source added that friends of the actress made apologies on her behalf, saying, "Kirsten is not in a good place right now."

Well, obviously Kirsten Dunst wasn't in a good place if she was in Utah. She was at a place where midgets attack cars, for crying out loud. But as for her frame of mind, who knows? The Sundance appearance was Kirsten Dunst's first appearance for a number of weeks, so nobody is sure if her behaviour was genuinely worrying or just a spot of moviestar dickery in action.

Although Kirsten Dunst's representatives have claimed that she's not mad or heading for a breakdown, she's definitely raised eyebrows in the past. Just last year Kirsten was threatening to quit acting because some people didn't like a film she was in. While that sort of hyper-sensitivity makes us think that Kirsten Dunst could be a likely target for a breakdown, you shouldn't really equate making badly-received films with emotional breakdowns.

Because if you did, Jessica Alba would be the maddest bastard on the whole effing planet.

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Dunst on Verge of Trouble – Page Six