increaseis dad, John Hundleyaddressed the circumstances that may have led to the delay American idol Death of the participant.
“But here’s what I think happened,” he said during her celebration of life on Saturday, April 27, according to The Christian Post. “Mandisa fell in her bedroom. They found her on the floor. Looking from the back of her bed, she is lying on her left side. It is clear that she was lying there, there were some large rugs and some clothes lying there.”
He noted that Mandisa’s phone was on the “right side” of her bed and claimed there was “no way” she could have called for help around the bed.
“She did not harm herself,” he continued. “As she said, Mandisa loved the Lord and the Lord loved Mandisa. So there’s one thing you might not have known.”
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He added that Mandisa was “weak in overcoming the battle with COVID” but “she tried to persevere.”
“We talked so much on Easter morning, but I thought she was going to this conference and that’s why I hadn’t called her lately, but I talked to her a lot,” he concluded. “May she now rest in peace.”
On April 19, it was announced that Mandisa died in Nashville at the age of 47. “We can confirm that Mandisa was found dead in her home yesterday,” a spokesperson for the singer said in a statement. “At this point we do not know the cause of death or any further details. We ask for your prayers for her family and close circle of friends during this incredibly difficult time.”
While her cause of death remains unconfirmed, local authorities believe there is “no evidence” of “suspicious or criminal activity,” according to a spokesman for the Franklin Police Department.
After her death American idol paid tribute to the Season 5 alum. Former participants Melinda Doolittle, Colton Dixon And Danny Gokey appeared on the Monday, April 29 episode, singing “Shackles (Praise You).” Maria Mariawhich Mandisa performed in her Idol debut in 2006.
The musicians later spoke to the moderator Ryan Seacrest about the gospel song that Dixon said “sums up” Mandisa’s life. “I think she came in to pray and left to pray,” he added. “But our loss is heaven’s gain.”
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Mandisa has been mourned before David Piercethe chief media officer of California radio station K-Love, who noted that she “was struggling and was vulnerable enough to share that with us, which helped us talk about our own issues.”
In 2017, Mandisa opened up about her ups and downs and shared that her friends supported her during a dark time in her life.
“I came out of the movie theater after years of being in this dark place and ignoring everyone, and I noticed my car was covered in a bunch of sticky notes,” she continues Good morning America. “As I got closer, I realized the notes said things like, ‘We love you.’ Come back to us. We miss you.’ And then as I approached my car, there was a group of my friends that I had excluded.”
She continued: “And they waited in that cinema while I sat there watching two films, not just one, they waited there for me for over four hours. And they kind of had an intervention and said, ‘We love you the way you are, but we love you too much to leave you like that.'”
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