I didn’t watch the show, but I hear that Paula was sober and on top of her game with her medley performance, and of course this impersonation of Ellen Degeneres’ trademark dancing through the audience is pretty much spot on.

I don’t know..I just don’t buy it. Why in the hell would she leave such a sweet gig? It’s not like there is that much work out there for an over-the-hill pop star with an alleged pill addiction.

Or is there? Tonight on Access Hollywood AI executive producer Nigel Lythgoe said that he would hire Paula as a judge on his other hit show So You Think You Can Dance.

Watch the video here and see if you smell the same fish I’m smelling.

“I could have killed myself,” Abdul, 46, tells Ladies’ Home Journal in its June issue. “Withdrawal – it’s the worst thing.”

Abdul says she checked herself into the La Costa Resort and Spa, in Carlsbad, Calif., last Thanksgiving to help beat her use of medication. “I was freezing cold, then sweating hot, then chattering and in so much pain, it was excruciating,” she says. “But at my very core, I did not like existing the way I had been.”

“I’m an old school professional,” Abdul says of her “Never let them see you sweat” credo.

A source tells us Sacha Baron Cohen, playing a wildly gay Austrian TV reporter in “Bruno,” conducted a wacky interview with the “American Idol” judge. “Paula was totally fooled. She bought into his character and to this day isn’t aware she was fooled,” the insider said. Abdul’s rep had no immediate comment. Universal, which releases the flick July 10, also had no comment. Texas Rep. Ron Paul has already admitted being tricked into a hotel room by Cohen’s character.

Source

“Ms. Goodspeed’s mother had gone to [the sheriff's department] to report her daughter missing, and advised them that she might be suicidal,” says Los Angeles police Capt. James Miller. “The sheriffs determined that Ms. Goodspeed may be up in the vicinity by Paula Abdul’s house. Our officers discovered her vehicle parked on the street, and found her inside. She was unresponsive to officers.”

The creepiest part is that there was a picture of Paula hanging on the rear view mirror of the death car. The car, parked a few doors down from Abdul’s house, featured a license plate “ABL LV” and had a photo of Abdul hanging from the rear view mirror. A DMV check of the license showed that the car was registered to Goodspeed.

Paula gives us no explanation for her slurred and garbled speech this season, or that unfortunate interview last month.  She does, however, admit to taking prescription pain medicine for ‘health problems’. And therein lies our answer if you ask me.