Yeah, we're pretty sure all the interesting and relevant starlets in Hollywood are in rehab, jail, or the hospital right now, so what the hey, here's something about Paula Abdul pitching a tantrum on a conference call. Page Six reports that they received an audio tape of a conference call between Paula and some American Idol highers-up. And it goeees a littttllle like thissss:
She sobs on the tape: "I've never been treated this way and I've never seen anybody treated this way. This is just too much to stomach." Abdul is assured by those hearing her wails, "You will be treated better starting right now."
"I've been going through tremendous amounts of a difficult time."
Ranting about Bragman, who apparently didn't appreciate her enough, the petite former pop star says: "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. Howard Bragman on Monday – he did some disgusting behavior. I had to go to Jimmy Kimmel," Abdul is heard sobbing, "with no publicist there. [Abdul appeared on Kimmel's show on May 15.] I go on with no publicist there and I pay this man . . . 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."
Listen, Abdul, it's time for some tough love. Due to an unfathomable amount of luck, you were plucked from your fizzled late '80s, voice-sweetened, Skat Katted former career to be given an opportunity to make a staggering amount of scratch for sitting drunk on a podium and telling teenagers that they have a beautiful spirit. Don't look a gift Cowell in the mouth. Were they in your present position, would you see a Jane Child or a Jody Watley pooh-poohing their good fortune? Would Stacey Q spill tears over a crummy publicist? And what of Miche'le? Would Miche'le complain? No. No she would not. Buck up, Paula. Be like Miche'le.
Hey, stop whining, Baby Huey. There are pics and clips of Paula at MrSkin.com.
