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Nigel Lythgoe is producing a slew of emails and posts from Paula Abdul which he says present that they had a really pleasant and loving relationship for years after she alleges he sexually assaulted her.
Within the authorized docs filed Tuesday, it is instantly clear Nigel’s taking the gloves off along with his former good friend and coworker at “American Idol” and “So You Think You Can Dance” … calling her a “well-documented fabulist, with a long history of telling wild stories that are untethered from reality and are primarily designed to attract attention and make Abdul appear to be the victim of dreadful misfortune.”
The scathing response consists of a number of personal emails Lythgoe says Abdul despatched him, crammed with flowery, form and “adoring” language. For example, a Sept. 12, 2014 electronic mail reads partially, “Hi sweetheart — thank you for this lovely ‘gift.’ Please forgive me for not calling yesterday. Forever grateful to have you in my life! Love, love LOVE YOU! XO P.”
One other, dated June 20, 2014, says, “Thank you for the beautiful flowers — they were exquisite! But, I have to say the kicker was the birthday card last night. I am still howling! I truly appreciate our friendship and am looking forward to launching our project.”
Lythgoe’s submitting additionally consists of pages of Paula’s public tweets at his @dizzyfeet deal with, beginning in 2009 and persevering with by means of 2015 once they had been each engaged on ‘SYTYCD.’ Lots of them embrace images of them collectively and captions like, “You know the crew loves you, too!! :)) xoxoP” — and, in a Thanksgiving tweet, she wrote, “I’m grateful that I met you too, Nigel! Have a very Happy Thanksgiving! xoxoP.”
TMZ broke the story … Abdul filed a lawsuit towards Nigel and FremantleMedia North America (producers of ‘Idol’ and ‘SYTYCD’) in December, alleging he’d sexually assaulted her twice — the primary time in “one of Idol’s initial seasons” … which might be the early 2000s, and the second at some unspecified level throughout her 2 seasons as a ‘SYTYCD’ choose. She began that gig in 2015.
In response to the brand new docs, the pages of emails, messages and tweets “show how Abdul really felt about Lythgoe during and after the time she now alleges abuse occurred.”
Lythgoe additional makes an attempt to impugn Abdul’s character, claiming he championed her to be employed on ‘Idol’ and ‘SYTYCD’ … “despite the opposition from other executives due to Abdul’s already well-known erratic behavior.”
He additionally claims her substance abuse points had been a frequent matter for ‘Idol’ execs, claiming … “At her worst, Abdul was slurring her speech, unintelligible, drooling and passing out in audition rooms, having to be carried out on two separate occasions.”
And, Lythgoe takes one different main swipe at Paula, saying her “credibility has been called into question on a serious issue” … specifically, the airplane crash she says she survived in 1992.
Within the docs, Lythgoe says, “There are no records whatsoever of the supposed plane crash. In one interview Abdul explained that she was able to keep the story under wraps with NDAs and because ‘there was no internet at the time.’ In another interview, she explained that at the time of the crash, there were ‘no computers.'”
As we reported, Nigel dismissed her allegations towards him as “false and deeply offensive” the day after she filed her lawsuit … and he is, once more, flatly denying the allegations within the docs.
He is asking the courtroom to dismiss Paula’s lawsuit, and he desires her to cowl his legal professional charges.
We have reached out to Paula’s reps … to date, no phrase again but.
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