Scoop! Paula explains her odd TV appearance

Paula Abdul has justified her recent odd behavior on a Seattle TV show last week (she was equally strange on KTVU with Ross McGowan), blaming the little voices inside her head — that is, the ones coming through her headset.

“I did a big week of press all last week in New York, and on the third day I did one of those press junkets where you’re in that one little room and you’re looking at one camera and there are 30 cities talking into your ear,” the “American Idol” judge explained to Jay Leno on Monday’s “Tonight Show.” She went on, “I guess Alabama was in my ear and so was Seattle at the same time, so I’m answering questions to the wrong answers of the cities. So they’re going, ‘What the heck? … What is she saying?’”