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Fantasia gets her own Lifetime true story

Posted May 6th 2006 2:46PM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Cable, American Idol, Celebrities

American Idol winner Fantasia Barrino will star in a Lifetime Original Movie about her own life, called Life is Not a Fairy Tale: The Fantasia Barrino Story. The press release describes her story as "inspired by the true story of Fantasia Barrino, a teenage mother who overcame poverty, sexual abuse and illiteracy by using her incredible voice to rise to national prominence." Fantasia will play herself. Loretta Devine (Crash), Viola Davis (Traffic) and Kadeem Hardison (A Different World) will also star. Debbie Allen will direct.

Filming begins later this month in New Orleans.

Tags: debbie allen, fantasia barrino, FantasiaBarrino, kadeem hardison, lifetime, loretta devine, new orleans, viola davis

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

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5-06-2006 @ 4:50PM

Evan Adams said...

This is everything that is wrong with our country today.

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5-06-2006 @ 11:13PM

JB said...

What an absolute waste of a TV production crew's time. At least its on Lifetime, so only 7 people will watch it.

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