Thanks to Best Week Ever for this clip of Paula Abdul explaining her accident, in which she sort-of broke her nose trying to avoid her chihuahua or something.

It’s pretty clear how she fell down in the first place, and how she’ll cope with her pain. Paula has repeatedly insisted that she’s not on any “recreational” drugs, nor is she a drinker. She said in February that she’s never been drunk in her entire life.

Two years ago Paula explained that she suffers from complex regional pain disorder, a rare neurological affliction that causes debilitating pain. She says she contracted the disorder from a cheerleading accident when she was 17 that was complicated by a plane crash in 1992. It seems that she now suffers from a much more common addiction to prescription painkillers.