Abdul says she checked herself into the La Costa Resort and Spa, in Carlsbad, Calif., last Thanksgiving to help beat her use of medication. “I was freezing cold, then sweating hot, then chattering and in so much pain, it was excruciating,” she says. “But at my very core, I did not like existing the way I had been.”
After taking medication to combat pain from injuries that happened during her grueling years as a dancer – beginning with a back injury when she was 17 and including a neck injury sustained in a plane crash in 1993.
By 2005, Abdul was diagnosed with reflex sympathetic dystrophy syndrome, a chronic condition that resulted in debilitating pain. As a result, she wore a pain patch and took nerve medication and, occasionally, a muscle relaxant. The combo made her “get weird,” she says.
L: Wait!! Does this mean we will never see Paula “get weird” again? Sad face!
A: I think it’s sad that Paula’s having to come clean about her years of morphine patch abuse just to sell singles. We had a friend who worked with Paula years ago and said they all called her Paula Abdrool behind her back because her addiction had become uncontrollable, and even put her in the hospital.
L: Unlike everyone else, we reported this story over a year ago and no one cared then, but when PAULA says it, now all of a sudden everyone wants to hear. Paula’s finally detoxed for days last November at La Costa Resort & Spa in Carlsbad, CA.
Yes…. you read that right, and NO the La Costa Resort & Spa isn’t a detox facility. Just a fancy hotel that you can break everything in while you detox.
A: I’m glad she worked all that addiction out with a combination of massages, swimming, and seclusion.
L: I’m confused because she told Matt Lauer on the Today Show in 07′, and I quote, ‘I’ve never been addicted to painkillers. Painkillers don’t work for me.’
A: But now she has a new single out!
