![]() Show Tracker ‘American Idol’ Fantasia Barrino hospitalized after overdose but is in stable condition ![]() Just two years later, amid a battle with depression and intense public scrutiny, Barrino tried to take her own life by swallowing sleeping pills and aspirin. If she held on and made it through, he told her, her ending would look better than her beginning. In 2008, after ending her run playing Celie in “The Color Purple” on Broadway, the singer visited a church in Los Angeles, where Bishop George Bloomer warned her that she had years of pain to come. ![]() Fantasia Barrino is opening up about overcoming darker times and nearly taking her own life.īarrino, who is reprising her role as Celie in the Oprah Winfrey-produced big-screen musical adaptation of Alice Walker’s novel “ The Color Purple,” told Variety that although she never thought she would be, she is “so HAPPY - in all caps.”Īfter being crowned the winner of the third season of “American Idol” in 2004, Barrino told the trade outlet, she rushed to embrace her grandmother, who told her to buckle up, “because with all of this comes the storm.”
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