Paula Abdul "Shocked, Deeply Saddened" by Dead Fan Found Outside Her Home
Us Magazine - November 12, 2008 10:23 AM PST
Paula Abdul arriving for the New York Premiere Screening of "HAIRSPRAY" at the Ziegfeld Theater. July 16, 2007.Us Magazine
A rep for
Paula Abdul says the
American Idol judge is "shocked and saddened" after a 30-year-old woman was found dead in a parked car outside her Los Angeles home on Tuesday. The car is registered to Paula Goodspeed, a season 5
Idol contestant,
TMZ.com reports.
I am deeply saddened and shocked about what transpired yesterday," she tells Usmagazine.com in a statement. "My heart and prayers go out to her family.
Her rep tells
Entertainment Tonight that the woman had been an extreme fan and had "issues." They knew about her for "several years," her rep tells
ET.
The license plate to Goodspeed's car read "ABL LV"; a picture of Abdul hung from the rear-view mirror.
The woman's car was found after 6 p.m. on Tuesday after the Los Angeles Police Department received a call. The cause of death may have been a drug overdose in an apparent suicide, according to
TMZ.com.
Abdul was working on
Idol all day and returned home late in the evening after the scene had cleared.
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