Janice Thibodeaux, the woman who attacked Terri Seymour—Simon Cowell‘s ex—after the American Idol taping Tuesday, has explained the assault to Radar. Turns out she wasn’t a jealous fan of Cowell’s, but a Paula Abdul supporter who wanted to teach the Brit a lesson!
I wasn’t cool with Simon Cowell choking Paula Abdul on the show last week and with her crying-out ‘help’ as he did so. Nobody said anything about that so I wanted to confront him about it because that is not appropriate behavior, is it?
She was taking some photographs with her camera and I knew she was his girlfriend so I went up to her to tell her how I felt. We started arguing and then I put my hands around her neck and started choking her just like Simon had done with Paula. Then I walked away and I was tackled by the police but I don’t regret what I did because of what Simon did to Paula, nobody seemed to care about that.
Seymour, who showed up with Cowell and Randy Jackson for last night’s finale, has refused to comment on the attack. Abdul hasn’t given her two cents either, but we can’t imagine she’s grateful crazies like Thibodeaux have her back.
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