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Paula Abdul's press tour to promote the new season of "American Idol" spun out of control today when she landed in the Pacific Northwest.

Paula's curious "appearance" on Seattle's Q13 FOX Morning News took a fast nose dive as the pint-sized Idol judge slurred and giggled her way through the interview.

Anchors Lily Jang and Carmen Ainsworth kept it together as Abdul bobbed and weaved for the camera.

For what it's worth, Paula's rep tells TMZ that it is "much ado about nothing." He says the station had "technical problems with the satellite and her sound was dropped not once but twice. Paula was in a small room by herself with only a cameraman. Paula was distracted and confused by the station dropping the sound. She did not know what was going on."

Clearly.



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61. Wow! I'm not sure what to say. It also seems as though she may have someone in the room with her...she keeps looking to the left..almost as if someone may be trying to talk to her there. The whole thing is a bit weird.

Sarah

Posted at 7:25AM on Jan 13th 2007 by Sarah

62. She was acting the same way for the SF audience. What a much more exciting media tour then the usual bored celeb. repeating the same answers ad nauseaum. But shouldn't her reps. at least admit she'd been drinking or something to loosen up? Otherwise I'm left with the impression Paula Abdul either smokes crack or she's a barely functioning mental patient who's made it suprisingly far. So what's really going on here? Straight up now tell me.....

Posted at 7:57AM on Jan 13th 2007 by jeff

63. Here we go again. It's just like being in the AI chat room! If Paula was really "on Drugs", she would have been booted from the show a LONG time ago. Do any of you really think the "powers that be" on AI, would let her go on each week high as a kite? the answer to that is a big h*ll NO! She is just a ditz, plain and simple. Quit trying to make it more than what it is!!

Posted at 8:12AM on Jan 13th 2007 by Gina

64. I don't believe anything that comes out of Hollyweird.
It's all smoke and mirrors.

Posted at 10:06AM on Jan 13th 2007 by Prnzez

65. yeeeeeeeeah, so it was that station's technical difficulties? then what about her appearance on KTVU that same day? video here: http://www.ktvu.com/video/10724570/detail.html that girl is drunk off her ASS!

Posted at 12:06PM on Jan 13th 2007 by Lilly

66. Isn't anyone EVER straightforward? "I did not have sex with that woman." "Iraq has WMDs." "I have never had plastic surgery." "I didn't mean what I said, I was just drunk." "Britney was just tired and fell asleep." "Paula was disoriented in a room by herself." Aww, come on! I, for one, am so tired of ridiculous and obviously ludicrous spin control stories that I could scream. WHY BOTHER? No one (please tell me no one) believes a word of it, anyway. When everyone from Presidents and politicians to celebrities to criminals lies and hires people to lie for them, no one can be believed anymore .. how would you ever know the truth? But what you DO know is what isn't true .. what OBVIOUSLY isn't true .. so here it is: Paula wasn't just 'disoriented,' Britney wasn't just tired, Michael Jackson HAS had plastic surgery (and so has Sophia Loren), there never were WMDs (and those who told us there were never actually believed there were), and Mel Gibson has deep-seated issues with Jews and with women regardless of whether he expresses them or not while blasted out of his mind. Stop, stop, stop with the stupid spin control, and just admit it when you're caught red-handed.

Posted at 12:02PM on Jan 13th 2007 by Kris

67. I can't believe that Idol reps don't demand a drug test. She's always f'ed up on AI and practically every interview. She should be so embarrassed. Rehab should be her next stop.

Posted at 2:48PM on Jan 13th 2007 by Courtney

68. Ah schadenfreude goodness.

I can't help it; I've always found Paula being wasted to be TREMENDOUSLY entertaining, I guess because everyone around her, including her, likes to pretend there is nothing wrong when it's so blatantly obvious she's stoned out of her gourd.

Bad Eyepoke. Bad, bad. Have compassion...poor woman, yatta.

AHAHAHA! I can't! do it I love it, I can't wait for AI and more Paula Drugged-Out Psycho Babblings!

Posted at 12:13PM on Jan 13th 2007 by Eyepoke

69. she did the same thing on good day la!!! she was totally cracked out!! scary!!!

Posted at 12:56PM on Jan 15th 2007 by Stephanie

70. She was drunk or on drugs. Confused my butt

Posted at 12:48PM on Jan 13th 2007 by Hal

71. Sorry Paula supporters but I saw her on Good Day LA the same day and she was drunk/ high then. PR will do anything to keep their money makers, sober or not, unfortunantely they can't overcome physiology. This chick is a bona fide alchy, you can tell by the way she trembles she starts off with vodka in her coffee and vicodin in her OJ. EVERYDAY

Posted at 1:45PM on Jan 13th 2007 by marti101

72. Apparently the San Francisco news station must have had technical difficulties too. While being interviewed she appeared to be looped (drunk/high?), fidgeting around as if she was having a fit. The anchor asked if she was ok and she claimed to be "dancing". I felt embarassed for her.

Posted at 6:11PM on Jan 13th 2007 by Leslie

73. Good lord she's messed up! I don't know how those interviewers can keep a straight face while conducting these interviews with her! Or how they can stop themselves from asking, "Excuse me, but are you high?"

Posted at 7:33PM on Jan 13th 2007 by Whatever

74. There is no question, whatsoever, she was wasted out of her mind. The other interviews that were questionable in the past, you could tell she was a little high, but not like this one. There is no way someone will look at that and believe her reps saying, "She was just tired." You've got to be kidding me. That insults us as the public, like we would really believe that after watching that. A thought did cross my mind, though, maybe she got drunk on purpose for a publicity stunt, but then I thought, no it would hurt her already questionable reputation. She's got a neurological disease. That's insulting to. That we would really believe that. She obviously can't handle her alcohol. I mean if I drank that much, I would know that i sounded like that and I wouldn't want to be around my boss or my pastor or whatever. Did she think that she was really talking clearly? Wonder what "Idol's" going to do because she is one of the judges that we've come accustomed to. I wish they would let her stay on just so we can be entertained hoping for a show when she's not wasted or betting every night before the show just how wasted she'll be.

Posted at 10:42PM on Jan 13th 2007 by Jill Lanthier

75. I truly think that she has something wrong with her and that it's non drug related. Can't we give her the benefit of the doubt? What if she DOES have Parkinson's Disease, or something similar? Won't you all feel bad if that's the case?

I don't know, I just think she deserves the benefit of the doubt, she seems like a nice person!

Posted at 9:00AM on Jan 14th 2007 by Steffie

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