Is Paula Abdul lying about being in a plane crash

This Reddit post goes into detail.

Why are the responses to the poll “Yes” and “No” when the poll question is “What do you think?”

I really don't care, do u?

I would have Madonna's career if it wasn't for that stupid plane.

She’s confusing a plane with a bus, and herself with Gloria Estefan.

In the 80s, my dad went to London and returned with bandages on his head. He told everyone he'd been in a bus crash. In reality, he'd had a hair transplant. I still wonder how the hell his family and friends managed to keep a straight face when he removed the bandages and had mysteriously "grown" new hair.

Technically both Abdul and Reddit are correct — it was her old nose that was in the plane crash.

I’ll always remember her how she was before the tragedy.

What was the point of lying and pretty much ending her career

Maybe she fell off a stage? That shit can happen.

"I'm tired of people not treating me like the gift that I am.” Paula Abdul- Straight up megalomaniac.

Remember when she had a nervous breakdown because she was fired from... a Bratz movie?

That’s a weird thing to lie about.

We have to believe her truth.

r18 probably believes Woody Allen is a saint

Uh oh, she’s been telling lies.

The weirdest thing is I swear I remember hearing about the plane crash in college, which would mean somewhere around 1991 through 1995.

She fell off the stage in 1991 and was in a car crash in 1992 around the time she married Emilio Estevez, those are both well documented. I really thought the plane crash was as well.

That 2008 article mentions the crash in 1993 in Iowa (not 1992 as the Reddit post says) and does so in a way that makes it sound like it was common knowledge. Are we SURE there isn't something out there about the crash that just never got scanned and posted on the internet? Unfortunately it's impossible to tell now because the search results are all "Paula Abdul lied about plane crash." If I get bored enough maybe I'll pay for a newspaper subscription and do some searching.

A lot of people will take a plane crash and fancy it up.

Paula wouldn’t lie to RuPaul

It was Janet Jackson who booked that flight for Paula.

At least she didn't end up like me

The comments on that Reddit thread are fantastic. One person was her dog walker for a time and said he was certain she had some physical problems of some sort because her walking was impaired.

Another person was at that St Louis concert before the plane crash and remembers the whole birthday surprise and Emilio showing up, which made the news the next day. Once they mentioned it, I remembered it, too. Paula was huge in 1992 and I couldn't get enough entertainment news and gossip back then.

I would bet anything she had some kind of minor incident on a plane (fall on the stairs, rough landing, turbulence, maybe even had to land at a rural airport somewhere) that exacerbated what was already going on with her from falling off the stage and the car accident, and in her mind, possibly due to the pain killers, it's become a plane crash.

She does enjoy human furniture, however

This is really interesting, I would love to know what's going on with her and this weird airplane crash story. I also think it's a broken memory and not outright lying.

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