Fantasia: "I Just Wanted Out"

R&B singer Fantasia is speaking out less than two weeks after being admitted to the hospital for a drug overdose, saying she attempted suicide because she "just wanted out."

The singer talks about her suicide attempt on a special episode of VH1's Behind the Music, airing next week. Prior to attempting to kill herself by downing a bottle of asprin, Fantasia had been named as the other woman in a divorce petition filed by Paula Cook, a North Carolina woman who accused Fantasia of having an affair with her husband, Antwaun Cook.

"I didn't have any fight in me," Fantasia says. "I didn't care about anything. I just wanted out. At that moment I wanted out. I wanted it to be over with -- all of it, all of that shit."

Fantasia says when she met Cook, he told her he "was separated ... wasn't living in his home." She says in the moment she attempted to take her life, she was "tired of people doing me wrong, constantly, over and over again, dealing with my family -- my father, dealing with men and their shit -- I was tired."

Fantasia credits her nurse with helping her to recover mentally. The American Idol winner's new album is due in stores at the end of the month, and the singer is in talks to star in the film version of The Color Purple musical, reprising the role of Celie.