Paula Abdul is an American reality
television personality and former recording artist. Known for her string of bops and hits and ass-shakers in the 80s and 90s such as but not limited to "Vibeology" and "Rush
Rush", her career ultimately tanked in the late 90'
s and early 2000's when she started getting negative press due to her suspected alcohol and painkiller problem, as well as a few instances of getting involved in car accidents and
hit & run's (the
irony).
Paula has also come under fire in recent years for alleging that she was in a plane crash in 1994 or 1995 (sources differ, and she has changed her story numerous times) which she claims happened while she was on tour when a small 4-seater plane she was in travelling between shows crash landed in a field in Iowa. No evidence or record of the event exists and some speculate this narrative was a
cop-out for her to abandon the music industry and instead focus on her choreography and becoming a television judge. She first spoke of the matter in the early 2010's during an interview with RuPaul.