Fantasia, who recently married her husband, Kendall Taylor for the second time, spoke with NBCBLK about how her life changed coming off her American Idol win. The, ‘I Made It’ singer revealed that everything she went through after Idol was necessary, that she’s thanking God for going through those situations in the public eye, and that now she’s doing things differently, allowing God to use her to help others and keeping Him first.
I went through things coming off Idol, but it was all necessary. I was 19 years old and came up into some money. I was young and dumb, didn’t want to listen, very gullible, and believed everyone had my back. I was looking for love in all the wrong places, relationship wise and business wise. Now I sit here at 32 years old, so much wiser and I thank God for placing me in those situations because now I know what to do, what not to do and I can always help someone else along the way.
There is not a day that goes by where someone doesn’t walk up to me and I find myself speaking God into their life because of the storm and my test. And everything I went through was out for everyone to see. I used to ask my mom, “Why do they do me like this?” It seemed like anything I went through ended up on CNN with a million people talking about.
I’m doing things differently and I keep God first and I allow him to use me for others and because of that the enemy is always going to come against me and break me. But I can’t be broken, I been through too much, but my skin is too thick.
