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Thursday, December 23, 2010

Fantasia's boyfriend Antwaun Cook was legally separated earlier than wife claimed, judge reportedly rules

Fantasia Barrino


Antwaun was separated from wife Paula Cook as of Sept. 14, 2009, a North Carolina judge has determined. In filing for divorce, Paula had claimed she and Antwaun were together until June 2010, and had therefore targeted the "American Idol" winner as a homewrecker. Adultery is still a crime in North Carolina


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Monday, November 22, 2010

Fantasia Had An Abortion With Antwaun's Baby











Well this whole Fantasia scandal involving Antwaun Cook is now turning into a soap opera. Early this month, I made a blog post about Fantasia being pregnant with her lover Antwaun Cook. Well she WAS pregnant. She had an abortion around the time she tried to kill herself back in August.

Fantasia told the shocking confession today at the North Carolina court house.

Saturday, November 20, 2010

Fantasia Interviews With SFgate.com



Q: Let's start with a list: Win "American Idol"? Check. Write autobiography? Check. Movie? Check. Reality show? Check. Broadway? Check. Top 10? Check. You don't need to go on tour. You can just retire now.
A: No, no, no. There's so much more to do. I look up to all those great artists like Aretha FranklinChaka Khan and Diana Ross. They can still hit the stage and do their thing. I want to be like that. I have a long way to go.






Q: If you could step into a time machine and go back to the day before your first "Idol" audition, how would you prepare yourself for the past six years?
A: I don't know if I can answer that. But I know I wouldn't change a thing. Even though there were rough times - there were blows I wasn't ready for - I wouldn't change anything. I can say that today.






Q: Are you amazed you're standing here today?
A: When you're a celebrity, people sometimes make you out to be a robot. They forget we're only human. I'm that artist who says I'm just like you. Whatever is going on in my life, I'm not ashamed about expressing it and talking about it. It makes it seem to people like, "This girl has been through so much." But I will always be that artist who puts it out there. I don't know what other way to be.






Q: Does that kind of honesty get you in trouble sometimes?
A: No, because I want to get it all out there. I run into a lot of people who come up to me and begin to share things with me. And I always think, "I can't believe they said that to me!" It's because I've been open, so people feel like they can be open with me. I'm a young girl who can sing. It doesn't make me different from anybody else.






Q: Who was the first person to call you after you got out of the hospital following your suicide attempt?
A: I won't watch my VH1 show, but I turned on the TV last night and it happened to be about the hospital. At first I didn't want to watch the show because there are lots of things I don't want to relive. But I decided to face it. So I watched it and I cried again. All those people I was trying to please, none of them were there for me when I got out of the hospital. I don't care anymore. My caring is what sent me to that dark place not too long ago. I was so worried about pleasing everyone around me, I forgot about myself. That side of me is long gone.
To hear Fantasia Barrino's music, go to www.fantasiaofficial.com.




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Friday, November 12, 2010

Fantasia Pregnant By Married Man & Wife Wants $100K



Radar Online Reports Fantasia and Paula Cook at In Court Today to Fix the lawsuit, Reports are saying Fantasia is Now Pregnant by the Married Guy.
Fantasia and Paula were in mediation for nearly 12 hours on November 1, Fantasia was prepared to pay Paula $100,000 to make the lawsuit go away. Paula Cook sued Fantasia in North Carolina, blaming her for the demise of her marriage to Antwaun.  In her home state,  the scorned married partner can sue for “alienation of affection”. Now the media is reporting Fantasia is pregnant by married boyfriend, Antwaun as well.

Fantasia Dont Pull another suicide attempt.!


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Monday, November 1, 2010

Fantasia Fox Theatre 1/1/2011

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Fantasia has announced details regarding her very first headlining tour entitled "Back To Me." The 30-city tour will begin on November 4 th and will conclude by bringing in the New Year on January 1 st in St. Louis

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Fantasia Announces Back To Me Tour

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Fantasia's third album, Back to Me, debuted at #2 on the Billboard 200 chart last month, and in addition to landing the highest debut of her career, it also gave the singer her first #1 album on the Billboard R&B chart thanks to the first single, "Bittersweet." While her new single, "I'm Doin' Me," climbs on radio, Fantasia is also in the public eye thanks to the recently launched second season of her VH1 reality series, "Fantasia for Real."
"I'm so excited about this tour and having the chance to connect with my fans, the people that love me and have been supporting me through everything," Fantasia said in a statement announcing the tour. "This tour is going to be a real special, intimate experience for them and for me."
The single mom discussed the personal problems that led to her suicide attempt on VH1's "Behind the Music," telling the show, "I didn't have any fight in me ... I didn't care about anything. I just wanted out. At that moment, I wanted out. I wanted it to be over with — all of it, all of that sh--."








Here are the dates for Fantasia's 30-city U.S. tour:
» November 4 - Richmond, VA @ Landmark Theater
» November 5 - Norfolk, VA @ Chrysler Hall
» November 6 - Philadelphia, PA @ Tower Theatre
» November 7 - Baltimore, MD @ Meyerhoff Symphony Hall
» November 10 - Savannah, GA @ Johnny Mercer Theatre
» November 11 - Atlanta, GA @ Fox Theater
» November 12 - Tampa, FL @ Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center
» November 13 - Jacksonville, FL @ Moran Theatre
» November 14 - Miami, FL @ James L. Knight Center
» November 17 - Charlotte, NC @ Ovens Auditorium
» November 18 - Greensboro, NC @ War Memorial Auditorium
» November 19 - Columbia, SC @ Township Auditorium
» November 20 - Birmingham, AL @ BJCC Concert Hall
» November 24 - Los Angeles, CA @ Nokia Theatre L.A. Live
» November 26 - San Diego, CA @ Copley Symphony Hall
» November 27 - Oakland, CA @ Paramount Theatre
» December 2 - Dallas, TX @ Verizon Theatre at Grand Prairie
» December 3 - Southaven, MS @ DeSoto Civic Center
» December 4 - New Orleans, LA @ Kiefer Uno Lakefront Arena
» December 5 - Houston, TX @ Reliant Arena
» December 8 - Indianapolis, IN @ Murat Theatre at Old National Centre
» December 9 - Louisville, KY @ Louisville Palace Theatre
» December 10 - Detroit, MI @ Fox Theatre
» December 11 - Cincinnati, OH @ Procter and Gamble Hall at Aronoff Centre
» December 12 - Augusta, GA @ Bell Auditorium
» December 27 - New York, NY @ Beacon Theatre
» December 28 - Washington, DC @ DAR Constitution Hall
» December 29 - Cleveland, OH @ State Theatre
» December 30 - Chicago, IL @ Auditorium Theatre
» January 1 - St. Louis, MO @ Fox Theatre

Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Fantasia Reveals New Things

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t Fantasia had to say about being thrown under the bus by TMZ:
“I’ve been saying this in every interview and every show I’ve gone on: they don’t ever try to give me a break. They don’t ever try to say anything nice about me, that’s not what they do for Fantasia. I’ve accepted that. When [the cameraman] came out in the airport, he was being very, very nice in the beginning. And then, all of a sudden, he tried to throw me a blow, like, ‘So, have you taken any aspirin lately?’ I don’t find anything funny about that situation. Like I told Wendy Williams and Rickey Smiley, I’m not even going to talk about that situation anymore, because it’s not anything fun to talk about and it’s not easy to talk about. I want to just move on and take every step at a time and gradually get my life back and myself back together. But when he said it, I thought he was trying to be funny, and I looked at him like, ‘Hell, you wanna be funny, it’s not aspirin is Tylenol, how ’bout that?’ He pissed me off. But they way they edited it, with the the smiles and the laughs that me and him had, it was like, it is what it is. They’ve always done that to me, so it is what it is.”

Friday, September 10, 2010

Fantasia cries on Wendy Williams




Fantasia was on The Wendy Williams Show to promote her show Fantasia For Real  (Season 2) which premieres September 19th. Wendy Williams asked her suicide attempt and if she thought bout her daughter. Fantasia broke down into tears saying "I did not thought about anybody at that moment"

Fantasia on Regis and Kelly






Regis and Kelly Ripa one of only a few daytime talk shows that is not in rerun for the summer of 2010. Kelly began hosting the show with Regis in 2001 after Kathy Lee Gifford left the show. In The contract for the show ends in 2011, after which it will be decided if the show would continue or go off the air. With the ratings and the popularity of the show it is most likely to be renewed for another more many years to come. Kelly works for Electrolux Appliance in helping to raise funds for ovarian cancer research fund (OCRF).
Fantasias divorce scandal involving a married man she had been dating, talked about achieving one of her greatest accomplishments her GED in June. Teenage pregnancy had Fantasia dropped out of school, and then winning American Idol put her education on hold. Her reality show “Fantasia For Real ” on VH1 airs September 19, 2010. The release of her third album titled “Back to me” is climbing the charts, with such songs as Bittersweet and I’m doin good. You can purchase her CD online at the official Fantasia website or in stores today.
Regis and Kelly airs on ABC check your local listings for time.


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Fantasia Barrino reveals the pain beneath the fame

Singer Fantasia Barrino poses for a portrait at Print restaurant in New York.




Douglas Quenqua
New York Times
NEW YORK—As it turns out, there is a limit to Fantasia Barrino’s tolerance for exposure.
“Why don’t we go back to the car?” she asked, perched on a small sliver of couch at Dusk, a bar in Manhattan. “I’d be more comfortable talking there.”
It was an uncharacteristic moment of shyness from a woman who’s lately been anything but. In the weeks after a suicide attempt, Barrino, the American Idol winner, Broadway star and recording artist, has been everywhere — Behind the Music on VH1, Good Morning America, Lopez Tonight, and on and on — telling her story and promoting her new album, Back to Me.
All that talking has elicited questions. Isn’t the timing of all this a bit fortuitous? Is all this tragedy for real?
“Even from day one I’ve been an open book,” she said, in the back seat of a Lincoln Navigator, sipping red wine she’d brought from her hotel. “Ain’t no need for me to hide now, ain’t no need for me to change now, no need for me to start lying, either. I never did that.”
There are divas who stake their allure on being remote, who use a scrim of made-up personas and “reinventions” to keep fans guessing about their real lives (See: Lady Gaga, Beyoncé, Madonna). Then there are singers like Barrino, whose personal tragedies make up the raw material of their careers.
In the six years since winning “The Idol,” as she calls it, Barrino has published an autobiography, played herself in the Lifetime movie Fantasia Barrino: Life Is Not a Fairy Tale, and starred in her own VH1 reality show, Fantasia for Real. (She also took a detour to Broadway, in a highly acclaimed turn in The Color Purple.) Through it all, Barrino, now 26, has been candid about the sometimes grim facts of her upbringing: raped at age 14, a high school dropout and single mother by 16, and the more recent estrangement from her father, who sued Barrino over allegations in her book that he had physically abused her.
On the August night before her new album’s release, Barrino came to Dusk with her manager, her publicist, a reporter, some members of her band and an enormous bodyguard to sing karaoke, celebrate and, once again, tell her story.
Her appearance quickly attracted attention, so she retreated with the reporter to the Lincoln to talk in private. There she recounted the events that led to her intentional overdose of sleeping pills and aspirin on Aug. 9: the affair with a married man, the foreclosure on her home, the realities of a self-described “country girl” catapulted to fame by a reality show.
“I wanted to be so away from all this noise in my world,” she said, wearing black shorts, a vest and booties with 4-inch heels. “Whether it’s ‘mommy’ or ‘Tasia, I need a bill paid,’ or ‘we need you here at the record company.’ No one was taking care of me. It was only what I could do for other people.” A nameplate on her necklace read “Gorgeous,” and on either hand were rings that wrapped over several fingers.
Considering how tragedy has fuelled her career — and given the lacklustre sales of her last album — skeptics have questioned the legitimacy of her most recent round of troubles.
“Here we are a mere two weeks” after her overdose, read a post on the online message board Sodahead.com, “and Fantasia is up and about, working the talk-show circuit. And lo and behold, she has an album coming up. What a coincidence!”
Barrino says she has heard such misgivings and has an answer for people who voice them.
“I don’t think I needed any more publicity than what I was getting,” she said, shaking her head. The story of her affair and the subsequent lawsuit from the man’s wife “was on every news station,” she said. “It was on CNN, it was on Nancy Grace. They were having debates.”
Still, why not take some time for yourself after such a tragic event? “I couldn’t really afford to take more time off,” she said. “I’m still fighting my way out of debt.”
Barrino’s post-Idol story has become familiar in a culture increasingly populated by reality show winners. James Huysman, a psychologist who has spent 15 years consulting with reality shows and their contestants, says that people with tragic backgrounds make great TV but, like lottery winners, are rarely well served by the instant success that the medium hands them.
“When you take a wounded person and infuse them with absolute stardom and celebrity status, all you’ve transformed is the external,” he said in a telephone interview. “But from within you’re still the same person, the same low self-esteem, the same anxiety, the same fears, the same pain.”
Huysman compared Barrino to Susan Boyle, the dowdy Scottish woman who found fame onBritain’s Got Talent but soon ended up in a psychiatric hospital. “All we did was dress her up to make her palatable to a spiritually bankrupt viewership,” Huysman said. But that doesn’t mean Boyle was mentally prepared for the pressures of stardom, to say nothing of the shifting expectations of those around her.
Back in the car, Barrino said much the same thing about herself. After being crowned byAmerican Idol in 2004, she said, she wrongly assumed money would never be a problem again, and began trying to care for an unsustainable group of friends and family.
“I created the monster myself,” she said. “I’m big on family and I want to see everybody happy. That’s where I messed up.” The result, she said, was the debt she is still trying to work out of.
At this point, Barrino took the reporter’s pad and sketched an iceberg. “This part on top that everyone can see, this is Fantasia,” she said. “This is the celebrity, this is the smiles, the bubbly spirits, the red carpets, the cars, the fancy clothes.”
Then pointing to the much larger part of the iceberg below the water: “But here is Tasia,” she said, using her childhood nickname. “Now that’s hurt, that’s fear, the trust issues.”
The key to her recovery, she said, was “to be both. I’m not going to pretend anymore.”
TheStar.com

Thursday, September 2, 2010

Fantasia Testifies at Vh1 HQ


Fantasia Barrino stopped by VH1 headquarters to speak on how she’s getting over recent drama and to give employees an impromptu performance. By now, you know Fantasia is well on the path to recovery after attempting suicide last month. She downed an overdose of aspirin and sleeping pills amid allegations that she created a sex tape with her married boyfriend Antwaun Cook The medical emergency came days before the release of her current album Back to Me. Since being released from the hospital, Fannie has been very open about what lead her to want to kill herself and how she’s bouncing back from it. Staying true to form, she opened the show by sharing how she’s choosing to use her music as a means to heal. “What I do is…I use my life as a testimony to help other people. Humans people who really go through things,” Fantasia told the small audience gathered at VH1. “Not too long ago, I went through something I really don’t wanna relive, I don’t wanna ever be back in that place again." Before launching into “Free Yourself," she continued, “I’m going to use this album and me getting on the stage to let loose and let free and tell my testimony every day because I’m never afraid or ashamed of who I am. So now I’m going to free myself again. "

Thursday, August 26, 2010

Fantasia Pregnant?



Reports say that a source close to Fantasia has confirmed the rumor that she is allegedly pregnant with Antwaun Cook's child. According to Mediatakeout.com, an insider who works on Fantasia's Vh1 reality show, Fantasia For Real has revealed that the singer has discussed her alleged pregnancy on camera The insider said, "Everyone is trying to keep this UNDER WRAPS so that it's a surprise when the show airs. I'd bet Fantasia doesn't even mention it in all the press she's doing." According to Billboard.com, Fantasia's album Back To Me is set to sel 150,000-175,000 copies in it's first week

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Fantasias Album Review

Fantasias Album Gets Reviewed By usa today Read here.




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Fantasia On Good Morning America ( Video )



Here is a video of Fantasia is Good Morning America. Be sure to catch Behind The Music: Fantasia, tonight on VH1 as she speaks out about her suicide attempt which she admits that she wanted to kill herself and her affair with a married man.

Monday, August 23, 2010

Behind The Music: Fantasia will discuss about suicide attempt/affiar


Behind The Music: Fantasia will air tomorrow night on VH1. According to people.com the show will discuss about her recent suicide attempt and her affair with Antwaun Cook. It is going an interesting show tomorrow night.

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Saturday, August 21, 2010

VH1 Has Fantasias Back


As the troubling details of what transpired in Fantasia Barrino's home on Monday night emerged, VH1 executives and the producers of her reality show were trying to figure out how it would affect production The second season of "Fantasia For Real," is currently in production and scheduled to premiere on Sept. 19. Although the network does not know if Barrino's health problems will delay the premiere of the show, it issued a statement Tuesday in support of the "American Idol" champion“We support Fantasia 100% and look forward to working with her again soon. Our thoughts and prayers are with her at this difficult time.” Earlier on Tuesday, Barrino's manager, Brian Dickens, issued an unusually detailed statement about the 26-year-old singer's distraught state on Monday after learning that a North Carolina woman accused her of breaking up her marriage in divorce papers. Dickens said that Barrino "took an overdose of aspirin and a sleep aid" because she felt"heartbroken and is sorry for any pain she may have caused." In the statement Dickens acknowledged that Barrino had a relationship with the man but only because she believed he was separated. After Dickens released that statement, Radar Online published what appears to be a police report from Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department, which states that police responded to a "suicide" call at the Glynmoor Lakes neighborhood home of the singer. The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department did not return calls from The Times on Tuesday. Dickens did not return calls Tuesday afternoon about the police report. In the statement, Dickens said Barrino would be released from the hospital "soon." Barrino's third album, "Back to Me," is scheduled to be released on Aug. 24. Representatives at J Records, Barrino's label, did not return phone calls on Tuesday.
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Fantasia To get Another Vh1 Reality Show

   Fantasia Barrino and her married lover Antwaun Cook are planning to move in together – despite the fact that her family does not approve. RadarOnline.com has learned exclusively that the couple are making plans to move in together and have been in talks with VH1 for a new reality show about their rollercoaster relationship. The former American Idol winner recently reconciled with Cook after she unsuccessfully tried to take her own life when he ended the relationship.

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Thursday, August 19, 2010

Antwaun Cook defends Fantasia

According to Radaronline.com Antwaun Cook who is Fantasia's husband defends her about their marriage had been broken up.

"He knew Fantasia Barrino but the failure of his marriage can in no way be blamed on anyone except the two people that were a part of the union – Paula and Antwaun."



Paula, who has two kids with Antwaun, recently filed a complaint against Fantasia whom she claimed knowingly had an affair with Antwaun despite his married status.
"[Paula and Antwaun] expected their marriage to stand the test of time," Sodoma continued. "Unfortunately, like many marriages, it did not turn out as planned. In late summer 2009, after years of discussion, the parties separated with the intention of no longer being married."

VH1 plans to air the season of Fantasia For Real in September

Fantasia For Real 2 Episode 1 Descriptin

Fantasia For Real 2: As the season begins, Fantasia has finally moved everyone out of her house and is getting ready to release her third album She’s living the dream… until reality comes crashing in. Aunt Bunny comes to town to confront Fantasia about some nasty tabloid rumors regarding her love life, and low ticket sales threaten to cancel her first internationa performance in London. Meanwhile, Teeny may finally be in his own crib but a supportive Aunt Bunny is dubious as to how he’ll make enough money to stay there.
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