Fantasia Barrino is finally revealing why she abruptly left The Color Purple before its official end on Broadway. The actress, who played Celie in the live stage show, developed a tumor on her throat that left her feeling drained and too exhausted to keep up her nightly schedule.
"I couldn't get enough sleep and sometimes onstage, I could taste blood, every now and then," she tells Sister 2 Sister Magazine. "They (producers) would send me to the hospitals and they would say, 'Well, she's dehydrated; that's what's making her tired.' They would put IVs in me. But it just wasn't enough."
Eventually, the American Idol winner sensed that something was seriously wrong and visited a top throat doctor in Los Angeles, according to Eurweb.com. With the use of a small camera, the physician discovered what he thought was a cyst. The singer recalls, "I went into surgery and he came out and told my mother it was a tumor."
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