(Mavrix)
No, it's not Pick On Paula Day here at ASL, she's just gotten her wacky self in the news a lot this morning. Page Six is reporting on an audio tape they received that is allegedly of a conference call between Paula and several "American Idol" PR flunkies. During the call, Paula wigs out and starts blaming everything bad in her life on her former publicist, one Howard Bragman. And sobbing. That's one of those conference calls when you immediately call up Amazon.com and start shopping at your end to get through it.
She sobs on the tape: "I've never been treated this way and I've never seen anybody treated this way. This is just too much to stomach." Abdul is assured by those hearing her wails, "You will be treated better starting right now.""I've been going through tremendous amounts of a difficult time,"
Ranting about Bragman, who apparently didn't appreciate her enough, the petite former pop star says: "I do a call-in every week for OK! Magazine on 'American Idol.' Because of my brilliant job, they want to do a cover on me. I'm being told by Howard Bragman that I'm too old and no one will ever want to do a cover.
Keep reading for more caniption. Seriously - a time to check EBay for that vintage muffin tin or whatever.
This one was a really doozy, cuz' she kept on truckin':
"Howard Bragman on Monday - he did some disgusting behavior. I had to go to Jimmy Kimmel," Abdul is heard sobbing, "with no publicist there. [Abdul appeared on Kimmel's show on May 15.] I go on with no publicist there and I pay this man . . ."I don't understand how this man can call me a whining bitch. I've never in my life been called a whining bitch and a loser."
When we asked Bragman when he stopped working with Abdul, he said, "I'm not going into it," and added, "I'll stand by my reputation if she'll stand by hers." Her current rep, David Brokaw, did not return calls.
That guy is probably calling from the barroom, which he made a bee-line for after cutting ties with her crazy ass. I've been on some wack conference calls - someone's eating something while speaking or speaking much too loudly - but screaming and sobbing's a new one. If you're sobbing at work, it's time for a vacation. Or a new job.
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