Guess what, she's been on heavy duty pain medication.Determined to overcome her habit, she checked into the La Costa Resort and Spa in Carlsbad, Calif., last Thanksgiving.
"I could have killed myself," Abdul tells the magazine. "Withdrawal – it's the worst thing. I was freezing cold, then sweating hot, then chattering and in so much pain. It was excruciating."
"At my very core," she concludes, "I did not like existing the way I had been."
And not a single person in the whole wide world ever suspected a thing until the moment she confessed.
*puts on straight face*Gosh that Nightline interview a couple of weeks ago had me all convinced she was sober all along. I am so disappoi...
*covers mouth*
*runs from thread*
*smiles**stands and claps emphatically with fingers spread wide*
*"THAT? Was your best performance ever. You are every color of the rainbow*
Please don't judge me... this is the best Paula impersonation I could muster!
And the difference is amazing.
Okay, so she's still kooky, but she doesn't seems messed up and slurred and unpredictible anymore.
I've noticed the difference, and like watching her now.
She looks so much better too.
No addiction
No withdrawls
Nothing.Magazine got it all wrong.
Wow, who knew mud baths and facials were so tough.
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Wow. Just... wow.Ladies Home Journal does not seem like the type of magazine to make up a completely fictional story about a very real person they interviewed.
For Paula, this is actually total consistency: she always denies anything vaguely interesting she's ever said, occasionally while she's in the middle of saying it. To hear her speak her mind is to wait for the retraction where her publicist claims she doesn't have one.
