How do you go from winning American Idol, signing a major record deal and selling millions of records to almost losing BOTH of your cribs and you’re still under age 25???

I could see if Fantasia was a broke 45-year-old toothless has-been singer like Beyonce soon will be. Fantasia needs to be beat hard with a common sense stick! Even if there was a man involved and she was supporting him and bought his baby mama a car and paid his child support. She still should have a little something left over if she was investing her money right.

The “American Idol” winner says she was just a day away from losing both of the south Charlotte homes she owns.

“I put my life in other people’s hands that didn’t quite take care of it like I would have,” she said.

She says she always had the money, and when a judge realized that the near foreclosures — and the people she used to have working for her — went away.

“I put my trust in other men — people that said they cared about me, that they said they loved me, that they would do anything for me,” Barrino said. “I felt like all I had to do was get the mike, get on the stage and sing and everything else behind me would be taken care of but it didn’t happen that way.”

Now, she says, it’s about moving on.

“I’m excited to be back. It’s been a long time coming,” she said. READ MORE…

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