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Creed Lead Singer Scott Stapp's Wife Accused Him of Threatening to Kill Obama

Scott Stapp's troubles continue, as TMZ released audio of a frantic 911 call from his estranged wife, in which she accuses him of claiming to be a CIA agent tasked to kill the president.

Creed frontman Scott Stapp's battle with mental illness has taken another disturbing turn. Last month, ​he released a video through Facebook in which he looks bedraggled and gaunt, claims he's bankrupt, and sketches out a vague conspiracy theory about the IRS and a variety of shadowy, nefarious individuals trying to bring him down. As grim as that sounds, it's even worse when you remember that he filmed the whole thing in a Holiday Inn.

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Fortunately, Stapp was put in a 72-hour psychiatric hold for his own safety before the situation had a chance to escalate. When that hold ended, though, Stapp's situation deteriorated significantly.

During a frantic, bleak 911 call ​obtained by TMZ, Jaclyn Stapp, Scott's estranged wife, describes a manic episode following his release from his care facility that culminated in a threat to kill Obama. Jaclyn said he fled shirtless on a bicycle while in possession of between 400 and 600 pages of documents that he said were "CIA documents."

"He thinks he's part of the CIA, they're trying to kill him," Jaclyn says early in the recording. "He's a CIA agent and he's supposed to assassinate Obama." Stapp was also carrying a screwdriver, a wrench, and a hard drive according to a report from ​Rolling Stone. Later, he placed his own call to the police in which he accused Jaclyn of stealing his truck, which necessitated him riding a bike around town.

Stapp's wife alleges that he suffers from paranoid schizophrenia​ and exacerbates that illness with self-medication, though Jaclyn said that he was "off of the drugs" at the time of the call.

Jaclyn is currently seeking a divorce from Scott, citing his drug abuse and ​tendency to disappear for "days or weeks at a time." As for Stapp's finances, a report from Jon Wiederhorn of Billboard magazine states that Wind-Up Records ​actually paid him $1.3 million in advanced royalties for his recent solo album, Proof of Life. More money, in the total of $3 million, was paid to all the members of Creed for royalties connected to their last album—2009's Full Circle, which Wiederhorn's article reports sold 444,000 copies, a far cry from the band's heyday.

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