Mandisa, singer and former *American* contestant, passed away at her Nashville home at age 47. Her death was confirmed on Friday morning, though the cause has not yet been made public. In her 2022 memoir, *Out of the Dark: My Journey Through the Shadows to Find God\u2019s Joy*, Mandisa shared her struggles with mental health. She wrote about battling depression and anxiety after the loss of a close friend to cancer, describing this period as her \u201cdeep dark\u201d phase, In a 2017 interview with *People*, Mandisa revealed how deeply her friend\u2019s death affected her, leading her to withdraw and turn to food for comfort. \u201cWhen she died, it shook me to my core,\u201d she said. \u201cI fell into a deep hole of sadness<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Mandisa, singer and former *American* contestant, passed away at her Nashville home at age 47. Her death was confirmed on Friday morning, though the cause has not… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33402,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n