Paula Abdul is fabricating new particulars of an alleged sexual assault she claims her former “American Idol” boss Nigel Lythgoe dedicated … in keeping with new docs he is filed of their ongoing battle.
The previous ‘Idol’ and “So You Think You Can Dance” EP filed docs Tuesday, calling out Paula’s reminiscence of an alleged 2015 incident in Las Vegas. As we first reported, Paula initially claimed she witnessed Nigel groping her assistant throughout a ‘SYTYCD’ shoot … which Nigel denied when Paula first filed her lawsuit final December.
However Nigel’s elevating an eyebrow on the reality Paula’s story modified 9 months later when she filed an amended lawsuit … accusing him of additionally sexually assaulting Paula in Vegas. She claims after the assistant rejected him, Nigel touched Paula’s “buttocks, hips, waist and her breasts” and likewise tried to kiss her on the neck.
In Nigel’s new docs, he says, “It stretches credulity that Abdul would supposedly remember witnessing her assistant allegedly being assaulted … and yet apparently ‘forget’ until the filing of [amended complaint] that she also allegedly was assaulted at the same time.”
Backside line, he flat-out accuses Paula of producing this new model of her story simply to maintain her lawsuit alive — and provides, the “shifting allegations” punch a gap in her general credibility.
As Nigel sees it, he is the “victim of Abdul’s appalling lies.”
After all, Paula’s go well with additionally claims there have been different alleged incidents with Nigel … all of which he is denied, and referred to as “false and deeply offensive.”
We have reached out to Paula’s legal professional, however thus far, no phrase again.
