She felt mistreated, underpaid; network had 'mixed feelings'
(NEWSER) - Paula Abdul left American Idol only after “months of calculation,” both her own and Fox’s, writes Edward Wyatt in the New York Times. Abdul felt she was being mistreated on the show. Colleagues, she believed, weren’t doing enough to fight rumors about her “unreliability and possible substance abuse”; meanwhile, she felt she was being treated differently as a woman, making $3.5 million to Simon Cowell's $30 million and Ryan Seacrest's $10 million. More»
