Paula Abdul has spoken out for the first time since breaking her nose in a weekend fall, revealing she also fractured her toe. The clumsy American Idol judge tripped over her pet Chihuahua, Tulip, at home on Sunday and is now nursing a series of bumps, bruises and breaks.

She tells the news show Extra:

I took a nasty fall… trying not to hurt my dog… I tore cartilage… I bruised myself on my arm, that’s nothing… my chest, my waist all the way down to my hip. All from my little chubby Tulip. I saw her… I just remember saying, ‘Oh my God, I’m going to do a face plant!’ It hurt so bad!”

“I screamed like a little baby would scream. I fractured my toe as well.” But brave Abdul won’t be sitting out of the Idol finale tonight and tomorrow. Fellow judge Simon Cowell says, “We’ll have a huge bowl of ice just to make sure the swelling isn’t too bad.”

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