'Hey Paula': Seriously, what was she thinking?

After three weeks of "Hey, Paula!" you really have to wonder what Paula Abdul was thinking when she signed on to do a reality show.

Or rather, you really have to wonder what her "team" was thinking. And there is a team.

We see her team every week, in conference, planning and carrying out Paula's jam-packed schedule, managing her every move to within an inch of her life.

So how did "Hey Paula!" slip through the cracks?

Paula is clearly not comfortable talking to the camera about herself. Her feelings about all of the "reality" going on is meticulously scripted for her, and while she hasn't stumbled on her cue cards, she's clearly reading them. Or reciting them.

The show's producers are especially unkind, editing together only the moments where Paula is at her most unstable.

At least the "Hey Paula!" cameras were around to capture the truth, right?

That would be the truth about those rumors that Paula looked, how shall we say, not sober during those local newscast interviews leading up to last season's "American Idol." She said it was all a misunderstanding: There was a sound issue and a feed mixup and she was responding to questions from multiple cities while her answers were being beamed down to the wrong places.

Well, not entirely.

Here are her interviews on newscasts in Los Angeles  and Seattle. Call us crazy, but doesn't it look like she answered all the questions correctly while appearing inebriated????

But we digress. Back to "Hey Paula!'s" mission last night: Damage Control.

I'm just going to put it out there: I loved "Britney & Kevin: Chaotic."

Compiled from footage shot by the former marrieds themselves, it was possibly TV's most truly uncensored celebrity reality show.

And I'm a loyal "American Idol" watcher, too, so it goes without saying that I could get into a promised trainwreck like Bravo's "Hey Paula!" right?

'Hey Paula!': Can you handle Paula's TRUTH?

At least the "Hey Paula!" cameras were around to capture the truth, right?

That would be the truth about those rumors that Paula looked, how shall we say, not sober during those local newscast interviews leading up to last season's "American Idol." She said it was all a misunderstanding: There was a sound issue and a feed mixup and she was responding to questions from multiple cities while her answers were being beamed down to the wrong places.

Well, not entirely.

Here are her interviews on newscasts in Los Angeles  and Seattle. Call us crazy, but doesn't it look like she answered all the questions correctly while appearing inebriated????

But we digress. Back to "Hey Paula!'s" mission last night: Damage Control.

I'm just going to put it out there: I loved "Britney & Kevin: Chaotic."

Compiled from footage shot by the former marrieds themselves, it was possibly TV's most truly uncensored celebrity reality show.

And I'm a loyal "American Idol" watcher, too, so it goes without saying that I could get into a promised trainwreck like Bravo's "Hey Paula!" right?

'Hey Paula!': Pulling up the rear of trainwreck TV

I'm just going to put it out there: I loved "Britney & Kevin: Chaotic."

Compiled from footage shot by the former marrieds themselves, it was possibly TV's most truly uncensored celebrity reality show.

And I'm a loyal "American Idol" watcher, too, so it goes without saying that I could get into a promised trainwreck like Bravo's "Hey Paula!" right?