All that is happening with Fantasia Barrino is heartbreaking. How does one go from such riches to rags in such a quick time? Six years ago, this single mother was on top of the world. She won American Idol‘s third season crown, had a highly successful CD and was living the dream. This week, Fantasia was rushed to a North Carolina hospital and currently being treated for an aspirin and sleeping pill overdose. An apparent suicide attempt.

Six years ago, Fantasia’s first single, I Believe, debuted at number-one on the Billboard Hot 100, making history as the first artist to achieve this feat with a first single. Her debut album, Free Yourself was released in November 2004 and in its first week alone sold over 240,000 copies and later became platinum. The album also earned Fantasia four Grammy nominations. 

Also in 2004, Fantasia played herself in a Lifetime Television original film based on her autobiography, Life Is Not a Fairy Tale. The film was a hit as 19 million viewers tuned in its debut weekend alone. 

Her second album, Fantasia, was released in 2005 and was eventually certified gold. In a surprising move, Fantasia stopped recording music and accepted the role of Celie in the Broadway musical The Color Purple. But despite rave reviews, her career started to take a bit of a tumble. First, she hurt her vocal cords and missed several shows without telling people what the problem was. She was also dropped from her record label, 19 Entertainment based on creative differences.  To make matters worse, her home also fell into foreclosure in the middle of all of this although she was able to save it later.

Building on all of this trouble, last week, the media revealed that Fantasia had been named in a divorce law suit by a wife, claiming her marriage fell apart because Fantasia was involved with her now-estranged husband and that the two had even made a sex tape. This is where I think Fantasia had just too much to handle. The media frenzy must have put this 26-year old over the edge, and sadly, it looks like this mother tried to take her own life.