On Saturday (April 27), family, friends, fellow musicians, and fans gathered at Brentwood Baptist Church in Nashville, Tennessee, to celebrate the life of Mandisa, who died suddenly in her home on April 18 at the age of 47.
Living Proof Ministries founder and Christian author Beth Moore joined family members and others to share stories of how Mandisa not only loved the Lord but also left an everlasting impact with the “lovely and beautiful” life she lived.
During the service, Mandisa’s father, John Hundley, provided more details about his daughter’s death and sought to dispel rumors that she died by suicide.
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In 2017, the Grammy Award-winning singer and “American Idol,” Season 5, top 10 alum opened up during an interview with “Good Morning America,” sharing that she struggled with depression and became suicidal after her close friend died of cancer, leading Mandisa to go into hiding for nearly three years.
Hundley said that he has been staying at his daughter’s house since she died.
“I’m not a detective,” Hundley said, “but I have spoken to the detective twice and I told him what I was gonna say and he did not disagree with me.”
Although the detective didn’t disagree with Hundley’s theory, he told Hundley that investigators can’t speak definitively until an official report is released some time in the next three weeks.
“Here’s what I think happened,” Hundley said. “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.”
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“And on the right side of the bed was this nightstand and I found her phone on the right side of the bed,” he continued. “There was no way for Mandisa to get around the bed and go out there and get a phone to call for help.”
After speaking with detectives and seeing where his daughter died, Hundley believes that “she did not harm herself. Mandisa loved the Lord and the Lord loved Mandisa.”
, family, friends, fellow musicians, and fans gathered at Brentwood Baptist Church in Nashville, Tennessee, to celebrate the life of Mandisa, who died suddenly in her home on April 18 at the age of 47.){kind=link}