Fantasia Barrino’s life pre-American Idol may not have been a fairy tale, but according to her father, the book about her life includes some parts that are pure fiction.

The American Idol winner’s dad, Joseph Barrino, sued publisher Simon & Schuster for million Tuesday, alleging that the 2005 memoir Fantasia: Life Is Not a Fairytale contains "false, exaggerated, sensational, intentional and malicious untruths."

Joe Barrino, a truck driver and a musician himself, is claiming that, although his daughter is listed as the book’s author, it was the singer’s grandmother, pastor Addie Collins, who actually penned the story. The details that granny supposedly fudged include a description of Joe Barrino as being hostile to the music industry, a part where he asks his daughter for money, and the suggestion that his children’s music careers were more important to him than their education. (Fantasia has three brothers and their parents,
In Life Is Not a Fairytale, which was recently made into a Lifetime biopic starring the author-on-record herself, Barrino provides a first-person account of her life, from her poverty-stricken upbringing in North Carolina to becoming a single mother at 17 to winning the Idol crown in 2004. She discusses being raped as a teenager by a high school classmate and also discloses that she was functionally illiterate, memorizing the songs that she was scheduled to perform by ear, rather than by reading the lyrics, and improvising her way through some of Idol’s scripted portions.

"The unfortunate publication of Fantasia’s life story by Simon & Schuster seeks to capitalize on her American Idol success through disparaging certain members of her family," Joe Barrino’s attorney, Kendall Minter, said in a statement. "The lawsuit seeks to redress these wrongs and restore the integrity of the family members."


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