HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Two weeks after she overdosed on aspirin and a sleep aid, Fantasia Barrino is opening up about what led to her suicide attempt.
"I think I was just overloaded with everything, with carrying six years of so much," the former American Idol winner said Tuesday on ABC's Good Morning America. "I always take a licking and keep on ticking...it just became heavy for me to the point that I just wanted to be away from the noise."
"There's so much that people don't understand," she continued. "They just see the glitz and the glamour, and they feel like life is so perfect, but we're human and we go through things."
Fantasia's suicide attempt came on the heels of her being accused of having an affair with a married man named Antwaun Cook.
"I think everybody feels like I tried to harm myself over a man, but you know I've been in a lot of bad relationships," she explained to interviewer Robin Roberts. "I think that had somewhat to do with it because it was so heavy, it was brand new information, I was already going through so much. But I think it was just six years of everything, of me holding all that stuff on the inside and not letting it out...I got very, very tired."
After being rushed to the hospital, Fantasia said she awakened to even more fears.
"When I woke up, I figured out, 'Oh god, this is going to be more drama,' " she said. "I know all these nurses they know me, they probably voted for me."
Fantasia noted that one nurse in particular helped her bounce back after the incident. Now, with a new album out called Back to Me, the 26-year-old singer is hoping to turn the attention back to her music.
"I'm just going to go back to that young lady I was on the Idol that people fell in love with," she said. "I'm back to me."
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