When this story broke on Digital Spy yesterday it was headlined "Woman found dead at Paula Abdul's home", which suggests a somewhat bigger news story than what we got. Though it's still a bit tragic. One Paula Goodspeed was found dead in a car near the singer and American Idol judge's LA home yesterday - police are treating her death as suicide.
It's thought the location of Goodspeed's death was no coincidence. She was reportedly an almost obsessive fan of Abdul's, to the extent that her parents had expressed concerns to the police that their daughter may be stalking the star.
According to TMZ, Goodspeed had met the singer when she auditioned for 'Idol' in 2006, and she told the show about her Abdul fandom, explaining: "I'm a really big fan and I made life-sized drawings of Paula. I've been drawing ever since I was a little kid and my first drawing was of Paula Abdul". However, she didn't get past the first hurdle on the 'Idol' show, with her rendition of Creedence Clearwater Revival's 'Proud Mary' being generally ridiculed by the judges.