It’s back to school time for former American Idol Fantasia Barrino. Read the rest of this entry »

Fantasia Barrino has Simon Cowell to thank for paying off her debt and saving her Charlotte, North Carolina home from foreclosure last month.

The Mecklenburg County home was due to be auctioned off by the local Sheriff’s Office on January 12 , but the sale was called off at the last minute after Fanny reached a deal with financiers.

“Very quietly, Simon promised to help Fantasia take care of some of the back payments she owed so the house wouldn’t go on the block,” an informant has revealed to The National Enquirer.

“His offer of monetary support helped her stave off the creditors, at least for the time being. Simon didn’t want to take any credit for it, he just wanted to help her out of a jam. He was hoping to keep his good deed a secret. He didn’t want to cause Fantasia any further public embarrassment.”

Grammy-nominated singer is set to reprise her role as “Celie” in the Washington, DC musical production of The Color Purple, kicking off at The Kennedy Center this summer.
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Former American Idol Fantasia Barrino is in quite the financial pickle. Read the rest of this entry »

The national housing crisis has hit an American Idol. Fantasia Barrino is about to be evicted from one of her two Charlotte, North Carolina, homes, according to a new report. Read the rest of this entry »

Fantasia Barrino got candid about the throat tumor that marred her run in the Broadway production of The Color Purple in an interview with celebrity guru Jamie Foster-Brown, featured in the September edition of Sister 2 Sister Magazine.

Jamie: You are a helluva performer. That energy on that stage is just unbelievable. So we miss you with that. Now, getting back to the Color Purple. They were saying you had absences. It wasn’t that you didn’t want to work, but because your vocal cords kept shutting down or something? Tell me about that.
Fantasia: The tumor that was on my throat would make me very tired. And you know me, I’m a hard worker. I came out of the box working hard. I kept telling them that I’m getting very tired. It was like I couldn’t get enough sleep. And sometimes onstage, I could taste blood. I had braces on, so [I thought] maybe I’m biting my lip or I’m biting something in my gums or something. But I would taste blood every now and then. And what would happen was they would send me to the hospitals and they would say, “Well, she’s dehydrated; that’s what’s making her tired.” They would put IVs in me. But it just wasn’t enough. I kept saying, “I’m drinking water; it can’t be that, something else must be wrong.” And so after the Color Purple, after doing Clive Davis’s party, I had to do “I’m Here” that night and I remember waking up and I told my manager, I said, “Something is wrong. I’m so tired.” And I’m an Energizer bunny, so I know something ain’t right. I went to one of the best doctors in LA. He checked me out, he says, “Well, first of all, you have the flu and you have a sinus infection.” And he said, “But if you don’t mind, can I put a camera down your throat?” And so I let him look down my throat and I had a cyst, he said at first. He let me see it and I remember busting out crying and crying ’cause my vocal is my everything. I’ve been singing ever since I was a little baby and I’ve never experienced anything like that before. And in The Color Purple I play so many different ages from 14 to 30-something, so I was busting blood vessels. And so my mother came out and we all were just like, okay, we’re going to pray our way through this. I went into surgery and he came out and told my mother it was a tumor. It was a tumor.

More Of Fantasia’s Interview With Sister 2 Sister

Here is a video of American Idol Season 3 champ Fantasia Barrino performing “Bore Me” on the Idol 7 Semi-Finals Results Show.

Fantasia Barrino is “not pregnant,” a rep for the Broadway production The Color Purple said in a statement on Wednesday. The twenty-three year old former American Idol has issued the denial statement in response to reports that she is prego by rapper Young Dro.

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Fantasia is pregnant, according to celebrity snitch Jonathan Jackson. Read the rest of this entry »

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