The other day I found out that Eminem was happy he got rid of his pain pills addiction, and today I hear that another star has problems with the “wonder pills”: Paula Abdul. And, yes, it appears that these pills are worse than one could imagine.

Talking with USMagazine, Paula Abdul said: ““I couldn’t cancel my tour. I didn’t want anyone to count me out. I tried to keep everything hush-hush.”

She didn’t manage to do that, though. By 2005 she was diagnosed with “reflex sympathetic dystrophy syndrome” a neurological disorder that causes sever pain. She said that, due to the problems, she wore a patch that delivered a pain medication about 80 times more potent than morphine and took a nerve medication to relieve her symptoms. Other times she had to use a muscle relaxer… which sounds quite bad.

So, no, after all the news, it seems that being a star is not really as good as it appears to be when we look at them on TV. To suffer like hell and have to smile all the time… that’s simply incredible! But let’s just hope that Paula Abdul is OK now.