People: Paula Abdul Admits She Checked into Rehab

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ANTICLIMACTIC
A SAD DAY FOR REVELATIONS
"Withdrawal — it's the worst thing," Paula Abdul tells Ladies' Home Journal. Abdul admits to the magazine that she checked into a rehab facility in Carlsbad, Calif., at Thanksgiving for addiction to prescription painkillers. "At my very core, I did not like existing the way I had been." The singer says she now feels better, thanks to surgery, yoga and spiritual work

FLAGRANT
FORMER 'DALLAS' STAR BARELY BOTHERS DENYING CHARGES
Housekeeper Maribel Banegas claims she was fired by Victoria Principal on Dec. 26, but instead of paying her, the actress threatened to shoot her. Principal, in a lawsuit filed Tuesday, states she pulled the gun only after Banegas injured her dog and was acting aggressively.

APPEARANCES
RIHANNA EMERGES
Rihanna is back on the red carpet. The singer arrived Monday at the annual Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum gala in New York. It was her first such appearance since her boyfriend allegedly beat her in February. She did not speak with the press.

INTUSIVE
OPRAH PROVIDES CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE VOYERUIST'S SOUL
Elizabeth Edwards tells talk show host Oprah Winfrey that it's a "complicated question" whether she still is in love with her husband, John Edwards, after his admitted affair. "Neither one of us is out the door, so I guess it's day by day, but maybe it's month by month," Edwards says. Winfrey visited the Edwards family at the Chapel Hill, N.C., home where the couple live with their children. She interviewed Edwards about her relationship with her husband, his affair and her battle with terminal cancer. The interview will appear on Winfrey's show and there will be a companion piece in the June issue of "O" magazine.

WE KNEW IT!
NORMAL NAME ACTUALLY JUST AS CRAZY AS EVERY OTHER FAMOUS BABY'S
Brad Paisley says his wife, actress Kimberly Williams-Paisley, dreamed they had a boy and they named him Jasper. So, when their second son was born April 17, they named him Jasper Warren Paisley. Jasper Warren joins older brother William Huckleberry, who was born in February 2007.
» Pictured at left: His wife also dreams he'll stop wearing quilted black denim, but does he? No.

INTRUSIVE
FAWCETT SPECIAL TO AIR
NBC News next week will air a two-hour special on Farrah Fawcett's battle with cancer. Fawcett says that she would have liked to have kept her cancer private, but realized others might benefit from her experiences. NBC paid a licensing fee for the footage, but it isn't saying how much.

With contributions from The Associated Press
Photos by Chris Pizzello/AP