Y kant Fantasia read?

Maybe you caught this this weekend, but it was revealed recently that the winner of last year's American Idol, Fantasia "Welfare Mother Salute" Barrino can't read.

Quoth MTV:

In her memoirs released Friday (September 30), "Life Is Not a Fairy Tale," the third-season "American Idol" winner admits that she can hardly read or write.

In the book, which Fantasia dictated to a freelance writer, the singer reveals that her mother is also functionally illiterate and that Fantasia was so ashamed of her own struggle it kept her from ever applying for a job. On "Idol," she learned lyrics by listening to the songs, not reading the sheet music, and since winning, she's signed contracts she couldn't read.

Ha! But actually, this was my favorite part of the MTV story:

While working with the music directors, "Somebody would say, 'You know, it's pronounced this way,' and I'd be like, 'Oh, I'm sorry, you know, I'm country, you know,' " Fantasia tells "20/20" in an interview airing Friday night.

Well, that's certainly one way to put it...

Honestly, this doesn't surprise me at all in the least bit. Not to sound like some sort of bigot, but usually when I see a broad with a name like "Fantasia," I assume that at the very least she's not doing a whole lot of reading, but more than likely she couldn't even if she wanted to.