A doctor released her after several days, he said.

"What he was doing was sending home someone who is now made even more distraught by having her children taken away and sending her home to a house that just had lots of guns because David was a gun nut," he said.

Her hopes of getting her children back were dashed by that proposed court order from the state agency on Friday, he said. The order would send the boys to their maternal grandmother, with whom McCready had fought for custody of her older son for five years, he said.

"In Mindy's mind, a proposed order might as well be written in stone because every proposed order that had been presented in the past down in Florida courts, the judge would just rubber-stamp it," he said.

The combined toll of 35 days of bad news, starting with Wilson's death, took a heavy toll on her, Hanks said

"You have this perfect storm of several things that happened to her in succession," he said. "His suicide, her kids being taken away from her, the feeling that the media was out to get her, because they were putting out these reports that she was under suspicion in his murder."

McCready's last day was focused on getting the world to hear a song, he said. "I'll See You Yesterday" was the last thing she recorded with Wilson, who was a music producer. "It's such a beautiful song. It must be heard," she told NBC.

She sang:

"I was your sunlight, but now I'm just a shade

"I was your blue sky, now I'm just the rain

"I was your favorite song, but now I'm overplayed

"If tomorrow's gonna be the same, I'll see you yesterday."

McCready asked Hanks to help her get it played on the radio. She also asked him to upload it to YouTube along with photos of her and Wilson.

"She was anxious to get this video posted," he said. "I didn't realize it at the time, I didn't realize what the urgency (was about)."

She told him she wanted it to be a suicide prevention public service announcement, he said.

"In retrospect, I realize what she was not revealing was that her true reason was that this was her suicide video," he said. "She wanted it out there because she knew that the video would get more play after she committed her suicide. She wanted the world at the end to know how she had been treated and mistreated and all the stuff that she had gone through."

Her last wish came true. The video has gone viral, getting hundreds of thousands of views since her death. Country radio stations are playing her song.

"If these people had reached out to her in life as they have in death, maybe it would be a different outcome," Hanks said. "If she had known how many fans that she had out there and how many supporters she truly did have, she might have had the courage to go on. But I think she just felt she was alone, that nobody cared about what was happening to her."

In the NBC interview aired on the "Today" show last month, McCready summed it up: "My life hasn't ever really made sense to me, because I do know what kind of person I am and I do know that I try to be as good a person as I can possibly be every day."