Fantasia Barrino on Stage Again: I 'Bounce Back'

By PopEater Staff Posted Aug 30th 2010 08:15AM

Paris Hilton wasn't the only star making news in Las Vegas over the weekend. In a dramatic turnaround, Fantasia Barrino, who attempted suicide earlier this month, grabbed a mic on Friday night, singing four songs (including a cover of Prince's 'Purple Rain') at a nightclub in the Palms Casino and Resort, PEOPLE reports. And the 'American Idol' champ didn't shy away from the recent emotional crisis that landed her in a hospital on Aug. 9, after an aspirin-and-sleeping aid overdose.

"They thought I was finished, they thought I was done," she told the audience, which reportedly included Demi Moore and Soleil Moon Frye. "I would never ever stop, I don't care what no one says."

She added, "I was in the hospital, but now I bounce back ... Don't ever let your haters stop you."

Barrino's latest album, 'Back to Me,' is certainly cause for celebration, and the Grammy-nominated vocalist even visited AOL in early August to share her new music. But it was drama in her personal life that made the biggest headlines this month. After the wife of Antwaun Cook filed a custody lawsuit and named Barrino as his longtime mistress in court papers, the singer faced a storm of media scrutiny. She ended up being rushed to a North Carolina hospital after an overdose that she later acknowledged was no accident.

"I wanted out," she told VH1. "I wanted it to be over with."

Despite Barrino's controversial romance, her manager declared in a statement that the single mom is "not responsible for the deterioration of the Cooks' marriage," and insisted that Barrino will "weather this storm."

Tags: American Idol, fantasia, fantasia barrino

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Monday 30 August

By Barbara

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Let us see how she bounces back when they take all her money and her house.

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By jgriz2000

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oh gag me;she dikd it to get attention and sympathy. we do not need a daily story on this loser

By KR

Bingo! The girl will never be more than a Daisy Duck warbler who got an undeserved break on a national talent show thanks to her unwed mother sympathy act. I don't mind quirky singers but I don't want to listen to someone who sounds like she's been sucking down helium balloons for God's sake!

By jeffrey lebowski

back up a sec, barrino: there was a time in the not so distant past when a person made a failed attempt at suicide that they were put away somewhere to get the help they needed, but YOU walk out of the hospital and onto a stage to promote a new album...and you think this is normal? heroic? admirable? No, no: you're a sick girl and should disappear for awhile until you get yourself and your deplorable personal life back together again. The last thing we need is to see you onstage "bouncing back."

By Beth

The way I look at it if you lead a good life this kind of stuff is not going to bite you in the butt.

By Val

They just announced on the news that she is 3 months pregnant with this guy's baby. She's happy because now she thinks he'll marry her. What was she thinking when she took those pills?? I guess she didn't care about the kid she already had or the one that she's pregnant with. This girl needs to get some intelligence before she has another baby.

By BV

I have been following Fantasia since Idol. Her troubles go way way back including very bad choices (Men) in particular; however when she downed those pills did she give any thought to her little daughter? That was really selfish. She's had to deal with a family of leeches, and hopefully most of them have their own jobs now. Without some really good help her problems will not go away. She lost millions, a great deal to her unsupportive and selfish family. She's got a great talent and maybe now she will try to straighten out her life.

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Well isn't that a hoot ! He sounds like a real winner and she's having another baby out of wedlock. Can you say condom ! !

By metrorun3

Stripes don't change just because you think she has made it. She will always be just a screaming singer who I can't stand. She choose what she is and she will never change. But then again, they never do, now don't they.

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By lucy77

I will admit that I'm not a fan of her voice,very overrated in my opinion, but that's not why I too think that these incidents have been staged. I think she needed some help getting her name in the magazines, so she pulling a fast one. Nothing will get your name in the mags faster then a good tragic love triangle...and the baby is a nice bonus!

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