A woman’s body was discovered in a car outside the home of Paula Abdul Tuesday night, dead of apparent suicide.

The vehicle was registered to a Paula Goodspeed, 30, a former American Idol contestant and self professed “huge” fan of Paula Abdul’s.The license plate was ABL LV and a photo of Paula hung from the rearview mirror.

So far, police have not confirmed the identity of the woman.

LAPD officer April Harding confirms, “This has been ruled an apparent suicide and the coroner’s office is now investigating. The body was found around 6 p.m. Tuesday.”

Abdul was not home at the time of the discovery, but she is, of course, affected by the news. She released the following statement:

“I am deeply shocked and saddened at what transpired yesterday. My heart and prayers go out to her family.”

Goodspeed’s audition was featured on the hit show American Idol. Simon was practically repulsed by the woman and made fun of her braces. On the show, Goodspeed told AI how much she loved Paula,

“I really like Paula Abdul a lot. She’s really cool. I’m a really big fan, and I made life-sized drawings of Paula. I’ve been drawing since I was a little kid, and my first drawing was of Paula.”

Then she sang her song, and it was bad. She chose Proud Mary, and the judges did not hide their disgust.

Randy Jackson commented, “It was terrible, what was that?” Simon Cowell poked, “I don’t know how you can sing with all that metal in your mouth.”

And the woman’s idol, Abdul, ended it with, “Speechless, don’t know what to say.”

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