FANTASIA SPEAKS: "I Just Wanted Out!"

Fantasia is finally speaking out in her own words. The 26-year-old states that her overdose a few weeks ago was no accident, and she "just wanted out."
More deets on her first interview since her suicide attempt when your read on...
Fanny did an interview with VH1's Behind the Music (airing 9 p.m. ET/PT tomorrow--the same day her album Back To Me drops). And she opened up about her recent suicide attempt and wanting to die. She talks about her overdose being no accident, and how she attempted suicide so she could have a way out:
"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 [expletive]."
"I just sat in the closet and looked at the mirror and took all the pills in the bottle. I wanted to go to sleep and just be at peace. I knew exactly what I was doing. You can't accidentally take a whole bottle of pills."
"I was tired of people doing me wrong, constantly, over and over again, dealing with my family – my father, dealing with men and their [expletive] – I was tired. "My head was hurting me. I was over it."
Her manager Brian talked about what Fantasia texted him right before, and how he found her:
"Her emotions were extremely low. She'd been crying all day. Fantasia was just numb. Fantasia texted me, saying 'I love you.' I wrote back, 'I love you more.' Then it hit me."
"I wrote, 'You better not do anything or think about doing anything stupid.' And I left it at that. About 10 minutes later, Fantasia texted me back, and she said, 'Already did.' I went into Fantasia's room and saw her on the floor, and my heart just dropped."
Fantasia went on to talk about her thoughts when she "realized" Antwaun Cook, her lover, was still married, and her thoughts once she awoke in the hospital the day after her attempt:
"When I met him, he was separated ... wasn't living in his home. He didn't want to be back with his wife – that is what I was told," Barrino says. "I remember waking up in the hospital [and thinking], 'It didn't work, I'm still here in this hellhole. Still here with all this drama going on.' "
"My nurse Melanie was a blessing into my life because she didn't tell me what I wanted to hear," she says. "She told me what I needed to hear. And she looked at me and said, 'You gotta get up, and you've gotta get out of here, 'cause you haven't fulfilled your destiny.' "
"I realized how people end up in the grave. Because that one moment [snaps her fingers] of just breaking or feeling like I can't, I can't go on, it's too heavy. That was somewhere I don't ever want to go again."
Sounds like her attempt was her rock bottom and rude awakening. I'm sure we'll see it all play out on the new season of her reality show "Fantasia For Real". In case you missed it, check out these pics of her and Antwaun having a "meeting" the day after she got out of the hospital...cameras in tow.
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Grow up Fanny! You are
1:32 pm - Aug 24, '10
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8:00 am - Aug 24, '10
I feel sorry for any young
9:59 am - Aug 24, '10
If anyone wanted to see
6:21 am - Aug 24, '10
Yall are so lonely ass dildo
1:18 am - Aug 24, '10
You were so proud of that
7:24 am - Aug 24, '10
1. What is she wearing??? &
11:36 pm - Aug 23, '10
flip it ..no longer the
10:44 pm - Aug 23, '10
Real
10:13 am - Aug 24, '10
You get no sympathy from me
10:37 pm - Aug 23, '10
smh she was going to leave
10:25 pm - Aug 23, '10
welcome to our
9:04 pm - Aug 23, '10
you gettin ready to die and
8:55 pm - Aug 23, '10
that goes to show you Brothas
8:30 pm - Aug 23, '10
Sooooo all black men are to
10:42 pm - Aug 23, '10
she aint cute
7:47 pm - Aug 23, '10
There is nothing wrong with
8:26 pm - Aug 23, '10
So shit!
8:22 pm - Aug 23, '10
When I met my husband, he was
7:28 pm - Aug 23, '10
The only reason you were
9:50 am - Aug 24, '10
And when did she try to sugar
9:53 am - Aug 24, '10
If you're the other women
11:39 pm - Aug 23, '10
does't matter how long he's
10:44 pm - Aug 23, '10
agreed
11:41 pm - Aug 23, '10
nope your both whores, only
10:33 pm - Aug 23, '10
Girl stop. I know both of
1:21 pm - Aug 24, '10
comeing back with a different
3:40 pm - Aug 24, '10
There sure is a difference.
7:45 pm - Aug 23, '10
I don't believe she did that.
6:53 pm - Aug 23, '10
thats messed up how could not
6:22 pm - Aug 23, '10
I totally agree with you I
6:38 pm - Aug 23, '10
I agree. Who tries to kill
6:38 pm - Aug 23, '10
am uess the ones that are
5:29 pm - Aug 23, '10
feeling like there is no way
10:36 pm - Aug 23, '10
I have gotten so depressed
6:55 pm - Aug 23, '10
Fanny is playing victim.
5:21 pm - Aug 23, '10
i have been a follower of
4:31 pm - Aug 23, '10
She gets no sympathy for me!
4:04 pm - Aug 23, '10
Did she ask for your
8:31 pm - Aug 23, '10
That's exactly what I was
5:09 pm - Aug 23, '10
Really? Like, for real, for
4:04 pm - Aug 23, '10
Preach! Agree 100%. Fantasia
5:46 pm - Aug 23, '10
Couldn't have said it better.
5:14 pm - Aug 23, '10
Fantasia enough already, that
4:00 pm - Aug 23, '10
lol
11:43 pm - Aug 23, '10
Hate to be the cynic, but . .
3:51 pm - Aug 23, '10
I don't understand why she
3:39 pm - Aug 23, '10
Well, Tiger Woods is
3:38 pm - Aug 23, '10
Good googly moogly y'all have
3:36 pm - Aug 23, '10
Damn. Yall hate hard Im mixed
3:35 pm - Aug 23, '10
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