Paula Abdul Explains Herself

Remember a few days ago when we showed you the clip of Paula Abdul on a Seattle news station? Well, now she's doing the popular backpeddle to explain her strange behavior.

As a guest on The Tonight Show on Monday, she tried to answer Jay's questions on what was going on with her.

"I did a big week of press all last week in New York, and on the third day I did one of those press junkets where you're in that one little room and you're looking at one camera and there are 30 cities talking into your ear. I guess Alabama was in my ear and so was Seattle at the same time, so I'm answering questions to the wrong answers of the cities. So they're going, 'What the heck ... what is she saying?' "

On Monday, FOX Network (thems that air American Idol) issued a statement in support of Paula, "Rather than getting angry about these difficulties, or stopping the tour, Paula forged ahead and decided to have fun with the increasingly challenging situation. Unfortunately, because reporters and viewers were unaware of the situation, her humor was misconstrued."

People magazine reports that Paula was also acting strangely on an appearance on the San Francisco area station KTVU. The anchor actually asked Paula, "Do you always wiggle around that much? You're just wiggling around." Abdul laughed and answered, "I'm a dancer."

I don't know about you folks, but I ain't buying it.

Photo from People.