American Idol judge Paula Abdul has refused to film a second series of her reality TV series Hey Paula! - because she found watching the first season “disturbing”.

The Straight Up singer insists she was falsely portrayed as an insecure diva on the US show and she’s determined never to put herself through such trauma again.

“That was hard for me to watch. Disturbing,” she reveals. “They’d put a camera on me when I got wind that my dog was in a coma, and they’d make it seem like it was about hair and make-up.”