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Writer's pictureMegan Roche

Ask Paula

By now, all of you who read my blog know that I love Paula Abdul. Recently, I got the opportunity to attend a live stream Q&A, followed by a virtual meet and greet. It's been a long 18 months but Paula and I finally reconnected.


On June 25, I was a nervous wreck. Affectionately known as the Paula Abdul diet, my friends and I spent all day with bundles of nerves. Insider secret: no matter how many times she and I have been together, it doesn't matter, I'll always be nervous as heck to see her.


I wracked my brain trying to figure out what to tell her when I got to talk to her one on one. I had gone back and forth about possibly letting her know about the book I wrote. I also knew I only had one minute to talk to her so I wasn't sure if a minute was long enough to tell her all about it in the way I wanted to.



Many of my friends were also participating in the Ask Paula event so just like we always do, we got ready together over the phone, picking out our outfits together, doing our hair and makeup. Who do you know that puts on a full face of makeup, a dress, and. shoes to go to a virtual event? I'll give you a hint, it's this girl right here.


It had been a crazy week up to that point though. It wouldn't be a Paula Abdul event if we didn't have something crazy happen. One of my friends had bought two tickets, one for $20 and one for $200. She got an email on the Monday of that week that event had been cancelled.


Alarmed, I jumped into my role as the unofficial fan club president and started sending pictures to all of my other friends. Nobody else got this email. We were all so confused. I spent hours on the phone trying to figure out what was going on. I went to bed that night with an upset stomach. It always sucks when something you look forward to for months may get cancelled the week of.


The next day we got relief though. The one on one video calls would still go on as planned. THANK GOD. With quarantine and the COVID-19 pandemic, I really needed something good and exciting to happen. I logged onto the Looped Live app the day of the call, only to discover that I was phone call number 50.


Since I had all the time in the world to wait for my call, I had a lot of time to think about what I wanted to say. Once again, my book popped up in my mind. Should I? Shouldn't I? I really didn't know what else to tell her about. As my call drew closer and closer, I was so excited but my stomach was doing backflips.


When her face popped up on my phone screen, oh man. I knew I missed her but I had no idea how much I had missed her. If you aren't one of the lucky ones to have seen the video, I can tell you that my face lit up like a Christmas tree. Finally after 18 months, I was reunited with my favorite person in the whole world.


Paula has always been and will always be special to me. She is such a gem and I'm extremely lucky to know her. She asked me how work had been going, and I said it. "I don't know if you've known about this, but I actually wrote a book during quarantine and it's about you and I and the relationship that we share together and how important you are to me," Cue the reaction.


"Oh my God I need to get that book!!!! I love you so much Megan, you know how much I appreciate you. You are my biggest blessing."


Mission accomplished.



18 months was a long time to wait, but I'm so glad I did. I forever have her reaction on video and it was all I could have hoped for. After my screen went dark from our call being over, I sat in the chair in my living room and just cried. After getting it all out, I called my friends and we all came down from our high together.


Quarantine was hard, no doubt about it. But, getting ready for an event, feeling excited and nervous, the joy afterwards. I missed it all. Thank you Looped for bringing me back to my favorite person in the entire world.


Signing off,




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