Grammy-award winning singer Usher was so concerned about a woman ringing his doorbell and sitting at his front door in Johns Creek recently that he called 911 and whispered to the operator while keeping an eye on her, according to a TMZ report on the 911 call.
"I can barely hear you," the operator told the singer in the seven-minute 911 recording of the June 24 incident.
"I have a trespasser at my front door," the 33-year-old singer, whose real name is Usher Raymond, whispered to the operator on the recording obtained by TMZ.
It was the second time the woman, identified as Darshelle Jones-Rakestraw, 26, had visited the singer's home. A Johns Creek police report shows she received a warning not to return to the property the day before.
"I don't know this woman," Usher told the 911 operator. "She's obviously a fan of some sort." He later told the operator, "This young lady apparently is a bit delusional."
At one point, when Usher was asked whether he saw any suspicious vehicles or other people around, the singer is heard sighing heavily, and answering, "No, ma'am, I don't see anybody else."
Usher told the operator he lives in a gated community with a guard and somehow the woman was allowed into the area. "I don't know how she got in here," he said.
When officers arrived, according to the police report, they found Jones-Rakestraw on her iPad, which had been plugged into one of the home's outside outlets. The woman had an Ohio identification card, the report said.
When the woman was taken to the Alpharetta jail, she kept insisting she was Usher's wife and that the singer makes all of her decisions, according to the police report. She was then taken to Emory Johns Creek Hospital for a mental and physical evaluation.
Usher, whose hit single "Scream" from his Looking 4 Myself CD is No. 10 on Billboard, is in the middle of a bitter custody battle with former wife, Tameka Foster Raymond, over their two children.
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