AMERICAN IDOL CONESTANT COMMITS SUICIDE

Now this is a sad, but interesting story....


A former American Idol contestant apparently infatuated with Paula Abdul was found dead Tuesday night in a car near Abdul's Los Angeles house.

Paula Goodspeed, 30, a Season 5 contender whose audition performance of "Proud Mary" was panned and mocked by the judges, appears to have died of a drug overdose, police say.

"Ms. Goodspeed's mother had gone to [the sheriff's department] to report her daughter missing, and advised them that she might be suicidal," says Los Angeles police Capt. James Miller. "The sheriffs determined that Ms. Goodspeed may be up in the vicinity by Paula Abdul's house. Our officers discovered her vehicle parked on the street, and found her inside. She was unresponsive to officers."

The former American Idol hopeful found dead in an apparent suicide near Paula Abdul's home had been causing "a disturbance" there for several years, LAPD Capt. James Miller reports.

"Our station has been called to respond to Paula Abdul's house on multiple occasions over the last several years concerning Ms. Goodspeed," Miller says. "The last time our officers had contact with Goodspeed was in July."

There were no court records of a restraining order against Goodspeed.

"I can't say whether Ms. Abdul was directly harassed," Miller adds. "Ms. Goodspeed had been causing enough of a disturbance [to have police called]."

Five months after her failed Idol appearance, Goodspeed wrote on her MySpace page about her notoriety:

"It's very hard reading such awful things being written about yourself.....or hearing things being said..... not like alot of people would understand what it's like having so many haters," she wrote, "just because I made the mistake of trying out for a singing competition before I was even ready vocally, emotionally and physically."

She added: "I have to believe there is something good about me."