1 of 4 | Former lead singer of Creed, Scott Stapp, says he's broke and homeless -- and it's Obama's fault. Pictured here performing in West Palm Beach, Florida in 2010. File Photo by Michael Bush/UPI |
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 27 (UPI) -- A day after Scott Stapp -- the troubled lead singer of the rock band Creed -- announced through a video posted to Facebook that he was broke and living in a motel, the Florida native went back on the public airwaves to pin his financial struggles on President Obama.
"A lot of money was stolen from me or royalties not paid and that's when all hell began to break loose," Stapp claimed on Wednesday in an online video, saying he was the victim of a "vicious attack."
On Thursday, Stapp took to the radio to elaborate on his problems. The former rocker told Roz Weston and Mocha Frap, of The Roz and Mocha Show on Toronto's KiSS 92.5, that Obama was behind the attack that left him broke and homeless.
"In 2012, I was doing a promotional tour for my book, Sinner's Creed," Stapp said. "I went on Fox News, I expressed a little concern and disappointment with President Obama. Well, within two months of that statement, the IRS began to freeze my accounts."
"I believe that the IRS situation is definitely a result of me expressing my dissatisfaction with President Obama," he continued. "Absolutely, 100 percent. When my assets were frozen, I wasn't able to pay my mortgage."
Though Stapp claims he is now sober, his public life has mostly consisted of bizarre and dramatic, sometimes sad, headlines since his 2004 split with Creed, one of the most popular Christian rock bands ever.
Though Stapp seemed to have stabilized his life with the love of a new women, marrying former beauty queen Jaclyn Nesheiwat Stapp in 2006, things have again gone downhill fast. His estranged wife recently filed for divorce; she claims her husband is abusing amphetamines and continues to send her bizarre texts.
She recently released some of these texts, one of which reads: "Florida is not safe, biological weapons on the way. You have to leave with the kids. Meet me in Atlanta."
In his radio interview Thursday, Stapp said he's sober and mentally stable, having visited doctors and mental health professionals.
"They gave me the all clear... 100 percent."
