Paula Abdul, today, is most known for her soft-side judging on American Idol, but before that Paula was queen pop star of the 90s. Paula started out as a Los Angeles Lakers cheerleader, which is where her dancing career began. Soon she had high demand to choreograph music videos, for fans like Janet Jackson, which later earned her an Emmy Award for choreography. Paula`s recording career was also a large success with more than five #1 Billboard Chart songs. With hit songs like Straight Up and Forever Your Girl, Paula is a multi-platinum artist who has also won a Grammy for her singing. During interviews for American Idol, Paula was noticeably slurring her words and constantly shifting positions, which gave spectacle of drug abuse, but Paula denied, saying she was fatigued and tired from the pain medication she was taking for reflex sympathetic dystrophy, chronic back pain, which she was diagnosed with after an old cheerleading accident.
