Aug
23
Fantasia Barrino claims suicide attempt ‘no accident’
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[HMG] – In an unwholesome blend of insincere ‘Mea Culpa’ and hype for her CD, American Idol winner Fantasia Barrino now claims her recent overdose was no accident – She wanted to die.
“I didn’t have any fight in me. I didn’t care about anything. I just wanted out,” the singer tells VH1. “I wanted it to be over with. I just sat in the closet, looked at the mirror and took all the pills in the bottle. I knew what I was doing. You can’t accidentally take a whole bottle of pills.”
Barrino’s manager, Brian Dickens, recalls the stress of finding her slumped on the floor;
“She’d been crying all day.” he recalls. “She texted me, saying ‘I love you.’ I wrote back, ‘I love you more.’ Then it hit me.”
He sent another text telling her not to do something stupid. The reply read, “I already did.”
“I went into her room, saw her on the floor, and my heart just dropped,” Dickens tells People.
So what – other than free, global publicity and trying to hide her affair – made the singer attempt this dramatic finale?
“I was tired of people doing me wrong, dealing with (Read more...)