Paula Abdul Recording Again

The Associated Press is reporting that American Idol judge Paula Abdul has returned to the vocal booth.

"I've been really, really blessed and fortunate and it's really, really poignant for me to come back now," says Abdul, who hasn't had a new album released since 1995. Abdul blames a plane mishap for sidelining her musical career for over 10 years.

"I had four plates and fourteen cervical spinal injuries ... it all happened during the time that I disappeared and no one knew where I went. For five and a half years, I went through paralysis, the worst experience, and then I came back on American Idol, that was my first time back out there."

Fellow Idol judge Randy Jackson produced the new single, "Dance Like There Is No Tomorrow," for his new album, Randy Jackson's Musical Club, Vol. 1. Abdul decided to make her comeback when Jackson asked her to be on the album.

"Everything felt right. The song was amazing. I'm dancing ... wait (until) you see me. I'm doing things that you won't believe, that I don't even believe."

She's already begun work on a new album that's slated to be released this summer.