LAST EDITED ON 11-02-11 AT 09:27 AM (EST)Now it would be interesting to know if her tweets are really her thoughts or are also heavily crafted and edited by the producers.
There at least seems to be a problem with what the word "worked" means.
Her tweets say no work for the last 12 years. I think she/the editors are using full time steady employment for an extended period of time.
One off gigs as a backup singer during a tour or at a club IMO still count as work. It isn't steady, and you can't always rely on it to make the next month's rent, but it is working, IMO.
No one who says she has work has claimed she was a household name, just there is a difference between someone who can't even get themselves to an audition, and someone who is going to auditions and doing well enough to get occasional parts and gigs and seems to be doing the reality TV circuit in hopes they get name recognition by the general public.
ETA: I can understand that "poor pitiful me" makes a better backstory than "tried everything under the sun and didn't get the big break". I actually prefer the look how hard I tried and still didn't get anywhere story, unlike what the editors always seem to think America wants to vote for.