The reason Fantasia accepted the role as CeLie in the Color Purple #mylifestory #imhere

Fantasia Barrino, who previously revealed that she had been sexually assaulted in her 2005 memoir Life Is Not a Fairytale, found her own trauma coming back to her while playing Celie — who is also a victim of sexual assault — onstage each night. After ending her run in the production, the singer also revealed that she also “had to have surgery to remove two tumors on my vocal cords.”
So, when she was tapped to potentially reprise her role onscreen, Barrino admitted, “I was like, ‘I’m not sure if I can do it or if I want to.’”

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