Prior to the overdose, Fantasia Barrino found her name in the headlines when one North Carolina woman threatened to sue the American Idol winner for having an affair with her husband, Antwaun Cook, per People. Paula Cook called Barrino a "home-wrecker" and blamed the singer for the couple's divorce. With her name smeared across the news, Barrino wanted to escape. "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," she told VH1's Behind the Music (via People). "My head was hurting me. I was over it."

"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 added. "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.'"

But Barrino's nurse ultimately helped her regain perspective. "My nurse Melanie was a blessing into my life because she didn't tell me what I wanted to hear," Barrino said. "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.'" 

Sometimes lifesaving treatment requires more than traditional medicine.

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