Visibly Drunk… or Invisibly Medicated? The Inaccuracy of Impressions of Paula Abdul
Visibly Drunk… or Invisibly Medicated? The Inaccuracy of Impressions of Paula Abdul by Roxanne McDonald
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She was reportedly “visibly” drunk, but was Paula Abdul olfactorily drunk? Or does her condition warrant medications that make her appear loaded? |
Paula Abdul has been accused of public drunkenness before. The comments usually took the form of
joking—about what she was drinking in that big Coca-Cola cup at the panel table on American Idol sets. But it has become “news”. Just recently, Paula, doing the obligatory press junket on the Northwest coast, was accused of making a “curious appearance” on Seattle’s Q13 FOX Morning News, reportedly “slurring” her words, “giggling”, and not “knowing what was going on” (as the satellite tech problems distracted and confused her [her rep responded].
But if one would review her history, one would have more information than implication to work with:
First, Paula was involved in a cheerleading accident in 1979 that ruptured a back disc.
Next, in the 1980s, she was in “a couple of car accidents” (according to MSNBC.com). These would be followed by another in 2005.
In 1992, Paula was on a plane which had to make an emergency landing.
In 1998, she became paralyzed—long enough to be plied with [experimental] drugs and pain killers and hurtful enough that, along with the aggravation of the previous incidents and more recent diagnoses, she has come to require heavier meds than her critics could likely handle.
Now, Paula Abdul has survived what has finally been discovered as a rare, painful [chronic] neurological disorder: Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy (RSD). So while the years of trials, experimental drugs, physical therapy, acupuncture, and even live leech therapy have been traumatic enough, the drug she now takes, prescribed Enbrel, while it relieves some of her pain, does little to tone down the drama queens who wrongly infer Paula is drunk.
She is, however, tougher than they—having gone through pain so unbearable no outsider, no onlooker can ever accurately know. Evidently.
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