Paula Abdul Admits Painkiller Addiction. Finally!

Wanna hear a secret?

And by secret I mean something we’ve all known for years and years.

Ready?

Paula Abdul was addicted to painkillers.

Why, after all this time is she finally admitting to her drug use? Just two weeks ago she was swearing up and down to Cynthia McFadden on Nightline that she’s not an addict and has never had a problem.

“No, no, no, no, no. Will not take those drugs [she said referring to prescription pain medications] And you can check my medical records there is nothing like that. I was never on Oxycontin or Vicadin or anything like that. I was on nerve medicine and anti-inflammatories.”

So what’s changed in the last two weeks? Hmm……could it be that Paula Abdul’s new single just hit the airwaves? Could she really be doing it all for publicity?

Uh, yeah! This is Hollywood, where managers and reps plan everything and nothing goes uncoordinated. (Think pregnancy and divorce rumors being refuted, only to be confirmed a month later – that’s no coincidence, my friend)

In an upcoming issue of Ladies’ Home Journal Paula Abdul finally admits that all those drug rumors were true.

“I could have killed myself,” she’s quoted as saying.

Abdul, 46, said she turned to a combination of painkillers and Chinese medicine to get through the “grueling” dance routines that made her a reigning pop princess in the 1990s. She already had suffered serious back and neck injuries as a cheerleader, dancer and in two car accidents.

“I didn’t want anyone to count me out,” she told LHJ. “I tried to keep everything hush-hush.”

She had regular shots of lidocaine, she said, and by 2005 was diagnosed with reflex sympathetic dystrophy syndrome, which caused disabling pain, teeth chattering and shingles-like lesions.

She wore a patch that delivered pain medication 80 times more potent than morphine, she revealed. She also popped muscle relaxers, had trouble sleeping and would sometimes “get weird,” she said.

[Source]

Oh. My. Gawd. Did she just say 80 times more potent than morphine? That is just crazy. I remember what I was like on morphine (I needed it after surgery so don’t get you panties in a bunch), and I can only imagine what 80 times that would have been like. Seriously, that @@@@ could kill a horse.

But not Paula Abdul, apparently.

The thing that pisses me off the most about all these celebrities denying their drug addictions is that doing so brings shame to the disease of addiction. And that’s just what drug addiction is – a disease – and there’s no reason to be ashamed of a disease. Especially if you own up to it and do what you have to do to heal from it.

I’m glad Paula Abdul has finally owned up to her drug addiction; I’m just sad it took 12 years to do so.

Image Source

Tags: american idol news, biography of paula abdul, celebrities and drugs, paula abdul, paula abdul disorder, paula abdul ladies home journal, paula abdul on drugs, paula abdul songs

Related posts

• Mischa Barton Goes To The Psych Ward And Paula Abdul Might Be Leaving (1)
• Yes!! Paris Hilton Is Going To Jail! (3)
• Wooo! American Idol Gives Back! (0)
• What The HELL Happened To Britney Spears? (5)
• Travis Barker Is Released And Madonna Blames A Horse (0)