"I woke up in the. And that changed my life.. Theory 2: Paula Abdul was not in any aviation accidents in 1992 and she is using this story to cover up painkiller use and/or her extended absence from the limelight before her American Idol job. So, I really don't care what people have to say. Picture of American singer, Paula Abdul during an interview with RuPaul. Maybe like Gawker or Jezebel? Abdul has also cited car accidents and her long history as a dancer (including her famous stint as a Laker Girl) as contributing to her pain. Advertisement Paula Abdul made a name as one of the most popular dancers and singers in the 1980s. When you visit this site, it may store or retrieve information on your browser, mostly in the form of cookies. More Ghost Town: https://www.ghosttownpod.com Support the show: https://. A tour manager or roadie or someone? Of course, Abdul's life is very real but many people wonder if the plane crash she claims to have been in was pure fantasy. Doesnt take Sherlock Holmes to solve this mystery. Her account of banging her head against the planes ceiling has been consistent. I was a perfect pain-management patient at Cedars-Sinai. Did you ever see her when she was on America's Got Talent? As for how all of this managed to escape the notice of the press and the feds, Abdul has claimed that she was able to use her celebrity status to keep the story under wraps. On Tuesdays episode of RuPauls new talk show, RuPaul (which kicked off a three-week trial run Monday on selected Fox affiliates), consummate survivor and savior of this years Billboard Music Awards show, Paula Abdul, took to Rus pink couch to promote her upcoming Las Vegas residency. The veteran singer remarked that she is glad there were no social media platforms during her crash, or else she would have been considered a damaged star. The album won a Grammy Award for Best Recording Package. Was Paula Abdul really in a plane that crashed? She was loopy as hell. Regardless of whatever the actual story is regarding the plane crash, its pretty clear that Paula Abdul struggles with chronic pain and I do not intend to make light of this at all or to shame her if she has struggled with addiction. A revisitation of one of my most Iconic Conspiracies, as I debate my dear friend Stokes regarding his belief that Paula Abdul's infamous fake plane crash actually did happen. What has always made me question her story is no one else has ever come forward and said they were in a plane crash with her. . But instead I wound up with differing accounts from Paula Abdul herself, articles claiming she was lying, and lots of ._1W1pLIfaIb8rYU6YeTdAk6{margin-right:6px}._1H6Meh6ZAemKxOJDOEasfK{border-radius:50%;box-sizing:border-box;height:20px;margin-left:-8px;width:20px}._1H6Meh6ZAemKxOJDOEasfK:first-child{margin-left:0}._30vlMmCcnqKnXP1t-fzm0e{display:inline-block;margin-left:-8px;position:relative} Do any of you guys remember hearing about the incident back in 1992 or even later on? Paula Abdul has wowed onlookers with her recent death- and gravity-defying live performances, during which she has swan-dived from "Cold-Hearted"-style scaffolding into the waiting arms of her. Abdul spoke about the crash with PEOPLE in 2005, saying the plane, flying from St. Louis to Denver, landed in a cornfield. Then I disappeared for close to seven years.. How she managed to go down in a flaming aircraft and get treated in a hospital without a single word leaking to the press is another mystery, albeit one Abdul has accounted for mysteriously. Her career and personal life seemed to have gone downhill after her Under Your Spell tour, and its debated whether this was because of her plane crash, or whether the plane crash was invented to sweep this under the rug. Pride festival, or other recent comeback concerts. Well, it did get some attention, but I didnt want to make aI worked it out publicity wise. "When we plummeted, I hit my head on the ceiling of the plane. I doubt not a single person told their story to some newspaper unless they were told not to. If there's something that you know you can actually work on that can improve who you are as a performer or as a professional or as a human being, I resonate with that. She hit the big time in the late 1980s with the release of the multiplatinum album "Forever Your Girl," as BuzzFeed News reported, and then spent the next few years dominating the charts. Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. I. Thats the story I got from a mutual friend, he was a very heavy smoker and even in a pressurized airplane like his 414A, you can get a 8-12,000 foot cabin altitude if you go high enough, of the system isnt fully pressurizing. So, I really don't care what people have to say. Like you, I had no reason to doubt Paula Abdul's claim that she had been in a plane crash. While I know someone else who has it that's in a wheel chair, I have it and it mostly just means I get these random spasms from time to time and some other weird shit. Following her successful stint with "The Jacksons," Abdul released her dance workout CDs. They became a huge success, grabbing the world's attention and placing her in demand for many stars. In 1992 Paula Abdul supposedly survived a devastating plane crash in an emergency crash landing into a cornfield in Iowa. The singer has said in a 2018 interview with Music News that the crash was kept under wraps because she didn't want publicity for it at the time, or for people to think that her career was over. There is also a record of an accident in Englewood, Colorado on June 10, 1992. | Photo: youtube.com/RuPaul. Abdul claims keeping her woes from the press saved her career. Though there are naysayers about Paul's alleged plane crash, the singer has not wavered from discussing it to the press. EDIT: Link to confirmation of Sandstone Amphitheater concert, so there is now proof of this and I have edited the post accordingly. I dont have proof of anything, but a personal anecdote. "Data-reactid =" 20 "> Last year, when she talked more openly about her injuries and recovery, both in interviews and on stage, there were some gossip sites like Jezebel and DListed, have claimed that Abdul completely invented their mysterious plane crash story. Theres a lot of overlap between this theory and the others, and how much overlap exists between theories depends on who you ask. Submissions should outline a mystery and provide a link to a more detailed review of the case such as a Wiki article or news report. And I wasn't getting significantly better., After she traveled around the world unsuccessfully in search of a miracle cure (I felt like I could become an honorary neurosurgeon, because I knew so much about what was happening to my body, she quips), Abdul finally tried neuroscience. What we do know for sure is that Paula Abduls career took a hit shortly after the time she claims the crash took place. And then I re-appeared on American Idol.". BestsellerThe Barista Express grinds, foams milk, and produces the silkiest espresso at the perfect temperature. Update (June 14, 2019, 8:00 am): A reader named Katie Sowder dug up a Kansas City Star article that reviews a Paula Abdul/Color Me Badd concert that it says took place at the Sandstone Amphitheater (now Providence Medical Center Amphitheater) in Bonner Springs, Kansas, on June 20, 1992. I woke up in the hospital only to find that I had crushed my cervical spine, leaving me partially paralyzed.. All content, including text, and images contained on news.AmoMama.com, or available through news.AmoMama.com is for general information purposes only. In the same year, Paula released her second album, "Spellbound." It sold more than 7 million copies worldwide. So I needed something that was so minimal, I literally was out walking and enjoying my life the next day. So I figured Id try to piece it together myself. It also doesnt care if you are using it for fun, to cope with life or to cope with pain. RSD and any severe chronic pain can sometimes also cause people to seem spacey or loopy, which could also explain why so many people thought she was acting strange during the time she was on American Idol. Paula Abdul made a name as one of the most popular dancers and singers in the 1980s. My personal theory (which is based as much on gut feelings as it is on actual information, since the info is so spotty) is that she was on a plane during the Under My Spell tour, wasnt wearing a seatbelt, and was injured when the plane experienced turbulence mid-flight. Gloria Estefan was in a horrible bus accident, maybe shes mixing that into her own life in a chemically altered, desperate way. No injury was reported. As Jezebel notes, Paula Abdul has been claiming since at least 2003 that she survived an early 1990s plane crash, and that she took some time off afterward to recover from her injuries. Not a crew member or friend flying with her? This goes far more in depth than that post and was heavily requested so hopefully it does not get removed this time. While. You did a kick ass job! I gritted my teeth. Why did it take eleven years after the alleged accident for there to be a single documented mention of it? However, the supposed landing site would have been out of the way north for the purported flight path between those two cities. There are only a handful of aircraft accidents, in fact, in the general vicinity during the timeframe between June 19, 1992, and June 22, 1992in Meade, Kansas, in Rocky Ford, Colorado, in Brighton, Colorado, in Falcon . It was on my birthday, too." (As previously. That says something. Without widespread internet it was probably far more popular than it is today, but you still see plenty of it in the grocery store checkout lines. So although there are pre-1996 records available on this site, there is no guarantee that these records are complete. She was a mess the times I saw her, and while I do not recall her ever using a cane or anything (I interacted with her maybe half a dozen times? A mysterious 1992 plane crash leaves more questions than answers. She said: lists no record of a plane crash in Iowa at any time between Abdul's St. Louis and Denver-area shows in 1992. It was not fun. I took care of that. Theory 3: Paula Abdul is telling the truth about being in a crash and her story was brought into doubt due to some unfortunate gaps in information, such as the NTSB records being incomplete/the accident not being reported at all, her own choice to keep quiet for an extended period of time, and miscommunications about whether or not she was using pain medication. After becoming the head choreographer for the "Laker Girls," she was discovered by the popular family group "The Jacksons.". When she has specified it, as she did to VH1 in 2008 and in a 2009 interview with Twin Cities radio station KDWBs show Dave Ryan in the Morning (now The Dave Ryan Show), shes said that the plane landed in a cornfield in Iowa. On the Paula Abdul post a couple weeks ago, I commented that I had a write-up that was almost ready to go. Not only that, Paula has also mixed up her timeline of the incident as well. Later in her career, she transitioned to television, becoming a fixture on the early iterations of the "American Idol" franchise beginning in 2002, according to Britannica, while continuing to be a dominant force in the music industry as well. So back then neurosurgery, especially with having spinal cord injury and having surgery, there was a 50/50 chance to get better. An hour into the flight, one of the engines blew up, and the right-wing caught fire, leaving everyone in darkness. She began choreographing sequences for several movie productions, like "Reefer Madness" and "American Beauty.". And then I reappeared on American Idol.. Medical people thinking somehow what they are prescribing is better than heroin from the street. In 2005, she told PEOPLE the engine caught fire 40 minutes into the trip and landed in a cornfield in Iowa. Today we will take a look at what might be the real situation. She might not feel she was ever addicted to opioids because it was all prescribed and she was using it as prescribed not in a recreational way. Which makes it all the weirder that she keeps talking about a plane crash that really doesn't seem like it happened. Still, it was a fun experience for her. To her credit, she lived up to the expectation, making herself one of the most popular choreographers in the industry. So, I really don't care what people have to say. An Entertainment Weekly report about the summer of 1992's tours mentioned a June 22 Abdul concert at Fiddlers Green Amphitheatre in Englewood, Colorado, which is six miles outside of Denver. "I went through all of that, mostly, privately," she said, adding that because the tabloids and the internet were different back then, she was able to contain some information, per Music News. According to Paula, around the time her Under My Spell tour concluded in 1992, she was involved in a plane crash. AFP. There is some confusion as to which part of her tour the crash occurred on. It's like, you learn and grow through wisdom and experience of being in this business, especially with the internet. Paula Abdul went on record saying she had never said those things, Link to confirmation of Sandstone Amphitheater concert, 2003 NBC interview, earliest mention of the accident, 2005 People interview, discusses details including plane route.