A former American Idol winner has been hospitalised after taking a drugs overdose.

Fantasia Barrino was taken to hospital in Charlotte, N.C on Monday (August 9), her manager confirmed.

Brian Dickens said the singer was “doing fine” and in a stable condition, and that the overdose was the accidental result of taking too much aspirin and sleep medication.

The incident comes just days after a lawsuit was filed claiming Barrino had broken up a couple's marriage.

The 26-year-old singer won the third series of American Idol in 2004.

She went on to receive eight Grammy awards and appear in the Broadway musical The Color Purple.

(by Jason Gregory)