Surprising No One, Paula Abdul Reveals Painkiller Addiction

Shocking!

Paula Abdul was until very recently addicted to painkillers! For decades!

It's all revealed in the Ladies' Home Journal, which seems like kind of an odd magazine to break this story, but you know. Whatever. Not that I know much about women's magazines.

Reports EW:

Abdul checked herself into the La Costa Resort and Spa, in Carlsbad, Calif., on Thanksgiving 2008, after years of medicating what is described as "chronic debilitating pain caused by an unusual series of accidents." An initial back injury suffered as a 17-year-old cheerleader was followed by: a broken leg during a rehearsal in 1991; a neck injury in a car accident in 1992; and partial paralysis requiring 15 spinal surgeries from a 1993 airplane crash. To deal with the pain -- and keep dancing -- Abdul began using a combination of painkillers, which included regular shots of lidocaine.

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