American Idol winner Fantasia Barrino was hospitalized Monday night after overdosing on aspirin and a sleep aid. Barrino was rushed by ambulance to Carolinas Medical Center-Pineville in her hometown of Charlotte, N.C., at about 8:55 p.m. Monday, according to local media.
Her manager, Brian Dickens, released a statement Tuesday, saying Barrino’s injuries were not life-threatening and she would be released from hospital soon. “She was dehydrated and exhausted at the time,” Dickens said. “Fantasia is stable now.” But a North Carolina police report called the overdoes a “serious injury” and classified it as an attempted suicide, according to UsMagazine.com.
The 26-year-old, who won the TV singing competition in 2004, was recently named as the other woman in a divorced suit filed by a North Carolina woman. Paula Cook alleges that Barrino was her husband Antwaun Cook’s mistress and that the pair made sex tapes.
Dickens released a statement to TMZ saying Barrino is “certain that she is not responsible for the deterioration of Cook’s marriage.”
Dickens said Tuesday that Barrino “believed (Cook) when he told her he and Mrs. Cook separated in the late summer of 2009.” Dickens said Barrino was in love with Cook and the two dated “on and off for about 11 months.”
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