It made so much sense when Paula Abdul admitted her addiction to painkillers. The behaviour. The slurred speech. The extended tolerance of Randy Jackson.
Yes, when Paula Abdul admitted that she’d spent 12 years off her box on a cocktail of medication, everything became clear. Simon Cowell‘s teeth hadn’t sent her down a path to insanity. The inexplicable popularity of Danny Gokey hadn’t turned her synapses to mush. It was the drugs.
Except it wasn’t. Paula Abdul has claimed that her statements were taken out of context. Apparently you can take harrowing descriptions of withdrawal out of context now. Who knew?
Let’s say American Idol is a family. Who would Paula Abdul be? Correct, she’d be your aggressive, incoherent, substance-addled mother. 
