He was also taken to hospital due to concerns about a possible overdose. <\/p>\n
His felony charges mean that he is facing up to five years in prison if found guilty and if he fails to complete the judge-ordered treatment.<\/p>\n
He pleaded not guilty to the charges last year. <\/p>\n
The Old Town Road rapper was diagnosed with bipolar disorder following the incident.<\/p>\n
Judge Alan Schneider said during Monday’s hearing that his behaviour when he was arrested was “aberrant from his normal conduct”, his lawyer Christy O’Connor told BBC News after the hearing.<\/p>\n
The judge added that he “appears to be doing very well” and that “when treated, he is much better off and society is much better off”.<\/p>\n
He then granted Hill’s request to enter into a treatment programme, his lawyer added.<\/p>\n
Diversion programmes are initiatives that allow alternatives like treatment for people with mental illness who are caught up in the criminal justice system. <\/p>\n
His defence lawyer told the court that after his arrest, Hill spent two months in a treatment facility in Arizona.<\/p>\n
After the hearing, Hill smiled to journalists and gave thumbs up.<\/p>\n
Following his arrest, his father told the Times that Hill’s mother’s battle with addiction, and his inability to help her, had been taking a toll on his mental health.<\/p>\n
“For a 26-year-old to have to deal with what he’s dealing with – to be a breadwinner for a lot of people, the inability to change his mother’s situation and the pressure he puts on himself,” said father Robert Stafford. “That can weigh heavily on your heart.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He was also taken to hospital due to concerns about a possible overdose. His felony charges mean that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":517215,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-517214","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-gb","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/517215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}