Paula Abdul has told a magazine that she has overcame the second long addiction of her life.

The American Idol judge says in the June issue of Ladies Home Journal that last Thanksgiving she checked into a resort and spa in Carlsbad, California, where she weaned herself off her 12-year addiction to painkillers.

Abdul says she didn't like existing the way she had been.

The magazine says the 46-year-old singer-dancer had suffered for years from chronic pain caused by an unusual series of accidents.

In 1994 she was also treated for the eating disorder bulimia, which she said dated back to her teenage years.

Abdul's spokesman, Jeff Ballard, says Abdul "has moved forward in her life".

(China Daily May 8, 2009)