 Fantasia Barino, the lead actress in the recently adapted stage-to-screen version of The Color Purple, has opened up about the challenges she found after rising to fame on American Idol. You may remember when Fantasia won the third season of American Idol back in 2004, three years before her Broadway debut in The Color Purple. But she remembered the hardships she went through in a recent interview with People. She said, aside from financial struggles, Fantasia also faced a 2006 lawsuit from her father over his portrayal in her memoir, Life Is Not a Fairy Tale, and a 2010 incident involving an overdose of aspirin sleep aids.