Paula Abdul Drowns Her Sorrows in Whine
Now that American Idol has ended, babbling judge Paula Abdul has to find something to blather on about. Her topic of choice -- how badly she has been treated by her former rep, Howard Bragman. In a tape Page Six got their hands on, Paula bitches, moans and sobs to a group of publicists about the unfair treatment she's had to put up with. "I've never been treated this way and I've never seen anybody treated this way. This is just too much to stomach," she wailed on the phone call. "I've been going through tremendous amounts of a difficult time," Paula said.
The newspaper reported last week that Paula's recent mishap of tripping over her dog and breaking her nose was a made up story, and the truth was that the singer actually threw a glass against the wall and a shard of it cut her face. Paula went on in her "poor me" speech to say that her former rep did his best to undermine her confidence. "I do a call-in every week for OK! Magazine on 'American Idol.' Because of my brilliant job, they want to do a cover on me. I'm being told by Howard Bragman that I'm too old and no one will ever want to do a cover," she cried. "I'm being tested. All I've ever wanted in my life is to be treated fairly and be treated with kindness. And I've never in my entire career been treated this way. The people who are supposed to take care of these things do not. I have to clean up after them everywhere they go. And I'm tired of it."
But here's the best line of the phone call: "I don't understand how this man can call me a whining bitch. I've never in my life been called a whining bitch and a loser."
Um, really? Are you hearing yourself right now? Please, please, Paula. Just take a nice long vacation, on a quiet little island, and, for God's sake, pull yourself together!
