Paula Abdul covers the June 2009 issue of Ladies Home Journal.  Ladies Home JOURNAL???!  Whatever, Paula.   I would expect her to be talking about her favorite poison cookie recipe, or how to make curtains out of old red carpet gowns, or something domestic… but no.  Instead, she spills about her addiction to pain killers, and her recent stint in rehab.

“I could have killed myself,” she said. “Withdrawal—it’s the worst thing. I was freezing cold, then sweating hot, then chattering and in so much pain, it was excruciating. But at my very core, I did not like existing the way I had been.”

Paula says she became addicted to pain killers after an “unusual series of accidents,” including a back injury at age 17, a broken leg, a car crash, and an airplane crash “that left her partially paralyzed, requiring 15 spinal surgeries.”

By 2005 she was diagnosed with a chronic pain condition called reflex sympathetic dystrophy syndrome. The illness, which can be caused by a previous injury, resulted in disabling pain, teeth-chattering, and shingles-like lesions.  Paula wore a patch that delivered a pain medication about 80 times more potent than morphine and took a nerve medication to relieve her symptoms. Sometimes she took a muscle relaxer.

All these drugs are supposedly the reason that Paula seemed “high” on American Idol.  Are they to blame for outfits like this, too?  Or this?  Or THIS??

Photo Source: gossiprex.com

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