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In other news - Paula Abdul says "she's not addicted to pills of any kind." And Barry Bonds does not take steroids.

Last November, the “Idol” judge was diagnosed with Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy, a chronic neurological disorder that causes severe pain.

“I get a shot (of an anti-inflammatory drug) once a week,” she said. “I give it to myself.”

So not addicted to pills, but addicted to the shots.

Abdul remarked that her 25 years of pain have been long and arduous, beginning with a cheerleading accident at 17 that injured a disc in her neck. The pain was punctuated with “a couple of car accidents” in the 1980s, her battle with bulimia, an emergency plane landing in 1992, paralysis in 1998 and years of failed treatments including prescription drugs, acupuncture and live leech therapy. Emphasis supplied.