Fronting Creed and Art of Anarchy. Receiving several RIAA certifications. A Grammy Award. Scott Stapp has already celebrated several milestones, but it was late last year that he finally became a grandpa, the feat that has him feeling proudest of all.
Stapp married Hillaree Burns in 1997. The following year, she was pregnant with their first child, who ended up being a son they named Jagger. The couple divorced and Stapp maintained full custody of Jagger. Now, Jagger is an adult – and a father too, to a wonderful son of his own.
Scott Stapp of Creed fame is proud to announce that he is officially a grandpa
Scott Stapp shares that he's a grandfather. The news comes just weeks before Creed is scheduled to reunite and play their first live shows in more than a decade. https://t.co/iLAKv1MFl4
— Entertainment Weekly (@EW) March 18, 2024
It’s been six months since the birth of baby Cash and Stapp can’t get over his grandson – or his own role as a grandfather. Cash was born to 25-year-old Jagger and his wife last September. The family is still “doing great,” according to Stapp.
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“I have a beautiful, beautiful grandson,” he shared with PEOPLE. “I don’t feel like a grandpa! I look at myself and I’m like, when I was a kid, grandpas had gray hair and a cane. So maybe it’s the food and the vitamins and everything else we’ve learned on how to better take care of ourselves. But a grandpa I am. And a proud one at that.”
Stapp takes his family life as seriously as his music career
While Stapp shares Jagger with his first wife Hillaree, he and his current wife, beauty queen and fashion model Jaclyn Nesheiwat have a daughter Milan, 17, and sons Daniel, 13, and Anthony, 6. Stapp and Nesheiwat have been married since 2006.
Stapp has been celebrating family since before Jagger was formally brought into the world. In fact, he wrote “With Arms Wide Open” when he found out that Hillaree was pregnant with Jagger. Released in 2001 as the third single for the album Human Clay, the track rocketed to number one on the US Billboard Hot 100 by the time November rolled around. The following year, it won the Grammy Award for Best Rock Song.
“I feel like my role in my kids’ life is just to love and encourage and take care of them and let them know that I’m always going to be there for them no matter what,” he mused on fatherhood after he himself had a difficult relationship with his own stepfather. “They make me want to be a better man… I just want to make them proud, and be a father they can look up to and say, ‘That’s my dad. I’m proud of him.'” As for him, he sees his children as his “purpose,” and now Cash has joined that esteemed crowd with great enthusiasm from Grandpa Scott Stapp.
