Thank you, Captain Obvious!

Paula Abdul released a new song to Ryan Seacrest’s morning show today and she has her sights set on singing live for the American Idol audience on tomorrow night’s results show.

Is it a coincidence that she’s finally revealing what we already knew? She was addicted to pain killers, and for the first time, she’s coming clean with the news and her addiction.

She says that when she was a dancer, she turned to a combination of painkillers, including shots of lidocaine and Chinese medicine to get her through. She says, “I couldn’t cancel my tour. I didn’t want anyone to count me out. I tried to keep everything hush hush. I’m an old school professional. Never let them see you sweat.”

Abdul had suffered from severe pain caused by several accidents and in 2005 she was diagnosed with “reflex sympathetic dystrophy syndrome”, which is a chronic neurological disorder that causes severe pain.

She says, “I could have killed myself. Withdrawal – it’s the worst thing. I was freezing cold, then sweating hot, then chattering and in so much pain. It was excruciating. At my very core, I did not like existing the way I had been.”