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Scott Stapp Says Meltdown From Psychotic Break and Bipolar Disorder

05/14/2015
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(Radio.com) Scott Stapp is ready to talk about the cause of his erratic behavior that made headlines last year. In a new interview with People, the Creed frontman talks openly for the first time about the "psychotic break" he suffered, telling the magazine he has bi-polar that was made worse by alcohol and drug abuse.

"I was hallucinating," he said. "I drove around the United States for a month, following an angel that I saw on the hood of my car." Stapp made headlines back in November when he released a YouTube video saying he was broke and homeless, living out of his car, which led his wife to have him institutionalized. A month later, a call to 911 from his wife was released, in which she claims Stapp believed he was part of the CIA and had made potential threats to assassinate President Obama.

Stapp says, "In my delusional thinking, I thought my family was involved in ISIS, and that millions of dollars had been taken from me to support terrorism. All of it was nonsense. I was out of my mind."

Stapp says he was diagnosed with bipolar disorder after hitting rock bottom, and though it was hard to process, he says it finally gave him an answer to what was going on. Read more here.

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