Mandisa’s Father Reveals Singer’s Likely Cause of Death
By Movieguide® Contributor
While Tennessee police are still investigating Mandisa’s official cause of death, her father defended her name last weekend, revealing new details about her passing.
“Here’s what I think happened,” her father said at the singer’s celebration of life service. “Mandisa fell down in her bedroom. They found her on the floor. If you look from the rear of her bed, she was laying on the left side. It’s clear that’s where she was laying, there was a couple of big rugs there and some clothes. On the right side of the bed, front, was this nightstand. I found her phone on the right side of the bed. There was no way for Mandisa to get around the bed, go out there and get a phone call for help.”
“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 may not have known. She told me some time ago that she had gotten COVID-19 and she had been week trying to get over that. But she was trying to press through.”
“We talked so much on Easter morning,” he added, “but I thought she was going to this conference, and so I had not called her recently but I’ve talked to her a lot. May she rest in peace now.”
Mandisa was found dead in her Tennessee home on April 18. She was 47.
Investigators had previously ruled out foul play or criminal activity in her death. However, Franklin police continue to investigate and will release an official report in the coming weeks.
Mandisa is remembered for her joyful spirit and fire for the Lord. Having struggled with mental health issues in the past, she became an advocate for mental health and the freedom that can be found through the Lord.
She was honored on this week’s episode of AMERICAN IDOL when fellow alums Colton Dixon, Danny Gokey and Melinda Doolittle performed “Shackles (Praise You).”
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Mandisa, who passed away earlier this month, leaves a legacy of pointing others to the Lord, something she worked hard to do because of his impact on her life.
“There is an otherworldly power in the word of God,” Mandisa told Movieguide® in 2022. “A lot of people don’t realize this. I look at Jesus when we read about how he was tempted in the wilderness. What is so interesting to me in that story is that when Satan was confronting him with all of these things that he wanted Jesus to do, the way that Jesus responded was he didn’t get in a debate with Satan. He simply said, ‘It is written.’ And he fought with the word of God. Like, he quoted it out of his mouth, and that’s eventually what made Satan flee.”
Mandisa applied this realization to her own life, bathing herself in scripture to fight the lies and temptations that Satan was trying to whisper into her ear.
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