Former American Idol star Fantasia Barrino is opening up about the challenges she endured following her rise to fame and how she found her way back into the spotlight and—most importantly—back to herself.
In an exclusive interview with People, Barrino said that in the wake of her 2004 American Idol win, she "lost a lot."
"I lost everything," she told the publication.
Two years after she won season three of the beloved reality television franchise, Barrino's father filed a $10 million libel lawsuit claiming the singer's 2005 memoir contained "false, exaggerated, sensational, intentional and malicious untruths," as CBS reported at the time. Four years later, she survived a highly publicized overdose.
