Comments on: Paula Abdul: Idol producers let my stalker audition http://www.celebitchy.com/25799/paula_abdul_idol_producers_knew_woman_was_my_stalker_before_letting_her_audition/ Stylish celebrity escapism Wed, 15 Feb 2012 01:15:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: DVMartinEsq http://www.celebitchy.com/25799/paula_abdul_idol_producers_knew_woman_was_my_stalker_before_letting_her_audition/#comment-165110 DVMartinEsq Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:07:52 +0000 http://www.celebitchy.com/?p=25799#comment-165110 January is National Stalking Awareness Month. Paula Abdul’s experience is not limited to celebrities. 78% of stalking victims are women. 54% of female murder victims reported being stalked before they were KILLED! Paula Goodspeed eventually decided to take her own life, rather than Paula Abdul's, but stalkers often kill or otherwise injure the object of their unwelcome attention. There is no federal statute directly addressing workplace stalking, but the Supreme Court is now considering whether to hear Martin v. Howard University, a workplace stalking/sexual harassment case, under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (www.dvmartinlaw.com/MartinvHowardUniversity. In addition to the legal issues, we need to provide law enforcement with some real alternatives. Courts can issue restraining orders, but people with mental problems are rarely deterred by them. Paula Goodspeed was clearly a danger to herself and others -- primarily, to Paula Abdul. Stalkers need to be confined and provided with mental help, for their own sakes and the sakes of the people they might kill or otherwise injure. It's true that we would need more info to understand the previous stalking, but in the video of Goodspeed herself, as a contestant, she says that she has been a fan of Paula Abdul since she was a child and that the first picture she ever drew was of Paula Abdul! So, I would not summarily discount the possibility that Paula Abdul had been receiving strange or disturbing letters from Paula Goodspeed since she was 12 or 13. January is National Stalking Awareness Month. Paula Abdul’s experience is not limited to celebrities. 78% of stalking victims are women. 54% of female murder victims reported being stalked before they were KILLED! Paula Goodspeed eventually decided to take her own life, rather than Paula Abdul’s, but stalkers often kill or otherwise injure the object of their unwelcome attention. There is no federal statute directly addressing workplace stalking, but the Supreme Court is now considering whether to hear Martin v. Howard University, a workplace stalking/sexual harassment case, under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (www.dvmartinlaw.com/MartinvHowardUniversity. In addition to the legal issues, we need to provide law enforcement with some real alternatives. Courts can issue restraining orders, but people with mental problems are rarely deterred by them. Paula Goodspeed was clearly a danger to herself and others — primarily, to Paula Abdul. Stalkers need to be confined and provided with mental help, for their own sakes and the sakes of the people they might kill or otherwise injure.
It’s true that we would need more info to understand the previous stalking, but in the video of Goodspeed herself, as a contestant, she says that she has been a fan of Paula Abdul since she was a child and that the first picture she ever drew was of Paula Abdul! So, I would not summarily discount the possibility that Paula Abdul had been receiving strange or disturbing letters from Paula Goodspeed since she was 12 or 13.

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]]> By: Emjaynie http://www.celebitchy.com/25799/paula_abdul_idol_producers_knew_woman_was_my_stalker_before_letting_her_audition/#comment-161862 Emjaynie Thu, 11 Dec 2008 13:04:43 +0000 http://www.celebitchy.com/?p=25799#comment-161862 People who've never been stalked don't take it seriously enough ... stalking in and of itself is psychopathic behavior, and should have been treated by American Idol producers with seriousness. Now they're responsible for this girl's death ... but what's worse, if not her, then it could have been Paula. People who’ve never been stalked don’t take it seriously enough … stalking in and of itself is psychopathic behavior, and should have been treated by American Idol producers with seriousness. Now they’re responsible for this girl’s death … but what’s worse, if not her, then it could have been Paula.

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]]> By: Jessica http://www.celebitchy.com/25799/paula_abdul_idol_producers_knew_woman_was_my_stalker_before_letting_her_audition/#comment-161749 Jessica Thu, 11 Dec 2008 09:40:30 +0000 http://www.celebitchy.com/?p=25799#comment-161749 Stalking doesn't necessarily mean following people around. You can stalk people by writing letters, are you seriously telling me that you don't know any 12 year olds who write letters to their idols?? If anyone is going to write to a famous person, it would be a kid! Do you know any adults (that aren't mentally disturbed) who do that? She probably started out as a kid and slowly the obsession built, you know? But I do wonder why Paula doesn't just break the contract... really. Surely she could afford a good lawyer to get her out of the contract. But either way I don't like the way AI lets mentally unwell people audition, its cruel. I always thought they must have employed actors to behave that way because they couldn't possibly be real people. But I guess I was wrong! Stalking doesn’t necessarily mean following people around. You can stalk people by writing letters, are you seriously telling me that you don’t know any 12 year olds who write letters to their idols?? If anyone is going to write to a famous person, it would be a kid! Do you know any adults (that aren’t mentally disturbed) who do that? She probably started out as a kid and slowly the obsession built, you know?

But I do wonder why Paula doesn’t just break the contract… really. Surely she could afford a good lawyer to get her out of the contract. But either way I don’t like the way AI lets mentally unwell people audition, its cruel. I always thought they must have employed actors to behave that way because they couldn’t possibly be real people. But I guess I was wrong!

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]]> By: RAN http://www.celebitchy.com/25799/paula_abdul_idol_producers_knew_woman_was_my_stalker_before_letting_her_audition/#comment-161477 RAN Thu, 11 Dec 2008 01:20:06 +0000 http://www.celebitchy.com/?p=25799#comment-161477 Aleach, thank you. Here I was feeling bad about saying Paula may be milking the notoriety (on another thread), and then I read your post. You're 100% right, I googled the woman - she was 27 years old when she was on AI. Impossible for her to have stalked Paula Abdul for 18 years. Now I'm even more annoyed that Paula appears to be using this girl's death for her own gain. Aleach, thank you. Here I was feeling bad about saying Paula may be milking the notoriety (on another thread), and then I read your post. You’re 100% right, I googled the woman – she was 27 years old when she was on AI. Impossible for her to have stalked Paula Abdul for 18 years. Now I’m even more annoyed that Paula appears to be using this girl’s death for her own gain.

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]]> By: Lucinda http://www.celebitchy.com/25799/paula_abdul_idol_producers_knew_woman_was_my_stalker_before_letting_her_audition/#comment-161144 Lucinda Wed, 10 Dec 2008 19:26:37 +0000 http://www.celebitchy.com/?p=25799#comment-161144 The problem with this story is that Paula has been playing the victim for several years now. Her reason for staying is that she's under contract. Why not break the contract? People do it all the time and if I felt my employer was ruining my reputation (which is slander and libel by the way) and endangering my safety, I wouldn't feel obligated to complete a contract. She has more control in this situation than I think she is acknowledging. She could be suing the producers if all this were true but she's not. Things that make you go hmmmm..... The problem with this story is that Paula has been playing the victim for several years now. Her reason for staying is that she’s under contract. Why not break the contract? People do it all the time and if I felt my employer was ruining my reputation (which is slander and libel by the way) and endangering my safety, I wouldn’t feel obligated to complete a contract. She has more control in this situation than I think she is acknowledging. She could be suing the producers if all this were true but she’s not. Things that make you go hmmmm…..

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]]> By: aleach http://www.celebitchy.com/25799/paula_abdul_idol_producers_knew_woman_was_my_stalker_before_letting_her_audition/#comment-161031 aleach Wed, 10 Dec 2008 17:45:23 +0000 http://www.celebitchy.com/?p=25799#comment-161031 i dont know if i believe her. i mean, everyone knows paula is a little (a lot) kooky, but this is just too much. first, if this lady was stalking her FOR 18 YEARS, you would think something would have been done before this...right? and wasnt the woman that killed herself only like 30? i dont know of a whole lot of 12 year old stalkers. but whatever. AI is the highest rated show on FOX, why would they let a stalker audition if they knew she has some serious mental issues? they dont need THAT kind of publicity, i think they do pretty well without it. i jsut cant beleive this story. i dont know if i believe her.
i mean, everyone knows paula is a little (a lot) kooky, but this is just too much. first, if this lady was stalking her FOR 18 YEARS, you would think something would have been done before this…right? and wasnt the woman that killed herself only like 30? i dont know of a whole lot of 12 year old stalkers. but whatever.
AI is the highest rated show on FOX, why would they let a stalker audition if they knew she has some serious mental issues? they dont need THAT kind of publicity, i think they do pretty well without it.
i jsut cant beleive this story.

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]]> By: Shay http://www.celebitchy.com/25799/paula_abdul_idol_producers_knew_woman_was_my_stalker_before_letting_her_audition/#comment-160911 Shay Wed, 10 Dec 2008 15:49:58 +0000 http://www.celebitchy.com/?p=25799#comment-160911 I'd have to agree with her. I work in banking and it's not rare for us to get customers who turn into stalkers. In every instance the company I worked for requested that I contact the police to get documentation on file and then they would close all of the customers accounts reguardless of what they had with us. That being said I'm a little torn. I only watch the auditions on American Idol. Having studied music in school and privately since I was 8 vocally and by instruments I reserve the right to laugh my ass off at people who think they can sing. I don't think it's fair to make fun of mentally challenged people though. I wish AI had a better way of weeding those people out of the auditions. I’d have to agree with her. I work in banking and it’s not rare for us to get customers who turn into stalkers. In every instance the company I worked for requested that I contact the police to get documentation on file and then they would close all of the customers accounts reguardless of what they had with us.

That being said I’m a little torn. I only watch the auditions on American Idol. Having studied music in school and privately since I was 8 vocally and by instruments I reserve the right to laugh my ass off at people who think they can sing. I don’t think it’s fair to make fun of mentally challenged people though. I wish AI had a better way of weeding those people out of the auditions.

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]]> By: Wif http://www.celebitchy.com/25799/paula_abdul_idol_producers_knew_woman_was_my_stalker_before_letting_her_audition/#comment-160892 Wif Wed, 10 Dec 2008 15:30:36 +0000 http://www.celebitchy.com/?p=25799#comment-160892 I guess I just don't understand people, but if I were auditioning my known stalker, I wouldn't have behaved so flippant. I would have been handling her with kid gloves. Yes, the producers were assholes, and clearly they knew (from the featured art and Simon's comment about the similarity) but I think Abdul should have been less glib about it, unless she was in on the joke. I guess I just don’t understand people, but if I were auditioning my known stalker, I wouldn’t have behaved so flippant. I would have been handling her with kid gloves. Yes, the producers were assholes, and clearly they knew (from the featured art and Simon’s comment about the similarity) but I think Abdul should have been less glib about it, unless she was in on the joke.

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]]> By: Frenchie http://www.celebitchy.com/25799/paula_abdul_idol_producers_knew_woman_was_my_stalker_before_letting_her_audition/#comment-160859 Frenchie Wed, 10 Dec 2008 14:55:12 +0000 http://www.celebitchy.com/?p=25799#comment-160859 The producers might not have taken Paula seriously and think the stalker wouldn't do much arm as she was a woman. They were wrong and macho : a woman stalking another, that's just hilarious for some big hairy men, you know ! The producers might not have taken Paula seriously and think the stalker wouldn’t do much arm as she was a woman. They were wrong and macho : a woman stalking another, that’s just hilarious for some big hairy men, you know !

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]]> By: Syko http://www.celebitchy.com/25799/paula_abdul_idol_producers_knew_woman_was_my_stalker_before_letting_her_audition/#comment-160840 Syko Wed, 10 Dec 2008 14:23:42 +0000 http://www.celebitchy.com/?p=25799#comment-160840 I hate that part of American Idol. I don't enjoy watching clearly mentally disturbed people being messed with. I hate that part of American Idol. I don’t enjoy watching clearly mentally disturbed people being messed with.

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