Paula Abdul Denies Pill Addiction

Paula Abdul is now denying that she had an addiction to prescription painkillers. Read more and see photos and video below.

Paula Abdul

Despite revealing to the Ladies’ Home Journal that she battled an addiction to prescription painkillers, Paula Abdul is now refuting those claims, citing the magazine as taking her words “out of context”.

Today Abdul told Detroit radio station WKQI,

“It was very stressful for me to hear that and to be quoted saying something I’ve never said. I’ve never checked into a rehab clinic, I’ve never been addicted or abused drugs and I’ve never been addicted or abused alcohol. I’ve never been drunk in my life.”

Instead, Paula is stating that her trip to the La Costa Resort and Spa was to indulge in “mud baths and facials” and not to detox herself from drugs.

The Ladies’ Home Journal interview quoted Abdul as saying,

“I could have killed myself…. Withdrawal — it’s the worst thing. I was freezing cold, then sweating hot, then chattering and in so much pain, it was excruciating. But at my very core, I did not like existing the way I had been.”

While she has openly shared the pain she went through with injuries and accidents in the past, the story of addiction still remains unclear.

More photos and a video of Paula Abdul’s “Straight Up” are below.