Tina Fey: “Paula Abdule was awful!”
In the new issue of Playboy, the 30 Rock star (and former Saturday Night Live head writer), 37, said Paula Abdul, 45, “was awful” while hosting SNL in 2005.
“I was pregnant [with daughter Alice] at the time and probably a little moody, but I remember thinking, ‘She’s a disaster! I gotta prop this lady up and get her on TV,’” Fey dished.
She said Abdul was “disastrous … in the way she generally appears to be.”
“It was an American Idol sketch, and she wanted to change parts. So Amy Poehler had to play her.”
A year later, Fey recalled seeing Abdul on a flight.
“We both looked at each other like, ‘Do I know that girl?’” she said. “And then we both had that moment of recognition, and she was like, ‘uuuggh.’ I saw it register on her face that she had had a terrible time with us.”
