Tina Fey won't be getting a Christmas card from Paula Abdul's assistants this year, not after what she said to Playboy magazine about Abdul's appearance on SNL when Fey was a cast-member.
Fey told an interviewer that Abdul was a "disaster" on the show. When asked exactly how, Fey said:
In the ways she generally appears to be. It was an American Idol sketch, and she wanted to change parts. So Amy Poehler had to play her.
The bad vibes persisted long after the taping. Fey says:
A year later I saw her on a flight. We both looked at each other like, "Do I know that girl?" And then we both had the same moment of recognition, and she was like "uuuggh." I saw it register on her face that she had had a terrible time with us.
Fey concludes:
I was pregnant 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."
What do you think the producers of American Idol say to themselves every day, Tina?
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