Cops: 'Idol' winner's overdose possible suicide try

Police in Charlotte, N.C., are categorizing singer Fantasia Barrino's overdose Monday night as a possible suicide attempt.

The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department's report says officers responded at 8:43 p.m. to a suicide-attempt call at a home in the upscale Glynmoor Lakes neighborhood, according to Charlotte CBS affiliate WBTV. There, police found the season-three "American Idol" winner in a closet, and took her to Mercy South Hospital at Carolinas Medical Center in nearby Pineville.

According to the station, the report was classified as "suicide/overdose" and said Barrino was hospitalized after "ingesting medication."

Late Tuesday afternoon, her manager, Brian Dickens, issued a statement that said the singer, 26, "took an overdose of aspirin and a sleep aid" after having been "totally overwhelmed" by a child custody/support and alimony suit filed last week by Paula Cook, wife of Barrino's boyfriend of 11 months, Antwaun Cook.

"Her injuries are not life-threatening," the statement said. Her father, Joseph Barrino of Greensboro, N.C., told RadarOnline.com, "She's doing fine."

Dickens' statement maintained that "Fantasia believed Mr. Cook when he told her he was not happy in his marriage and his heart was not in it. She believed him when he told her he and Mrs. Cook separated in the late summer of 2009. She believed Mr. Cook when he told her he lived elsewhere."