Iraheta: Mistaken for a finger food and eaten alive
Los Angeles, CA -- Fresh from a triumphant return to the American Idol stage last night to promote her new single, "Battlefield," Season 6 winner Jordin Sparks is now embroiled in a public relations nightmare after she accidentally ate Season 8 Top 4 finalist Allison Iraheta at a post-show party at the Medusa Lounge.
According to eyewitness reports, Sparks, hungry and in a mad rush for sustenance, scooped up and swallowed Iraheta, who was standing next to the hors d'oeuvres table and talking to fellow Season 8 contestant and now Top 2 finalist Adam Lambert.
"I was talking to Allison about ideas for the upcoming tour, and then all of a sudden, she was gone, and there was Jordin Sparks standing in front of me asking for a napkin," said Lambert. "I was like, 'Oh my gosh, girl, you just ate Allison!'"
After realizing what she had done, Sparks reportedly ran to the ladies' room and tried to vomit out the 17-year-old rocker and California native, but it was too late.
"I was talking to Allison about ideas for the upcoming tour, and then all of a sudden, she was gone, and there was Jordin Sparks standing in front of me asking for a napkin," said Lambert. "I was like, 'Oh my gosh, girl, you just ate Allison!'"
"I'm so very sorry. I thought she was a pig-in-a-blanket," an apologetic Sparks was heard saying.
Sources close to Sparks said the 19-year-old singer has been "on frazzled nerves" lately due to intense dieting and not eating properly.
"She wanted to look great and silence her critics so she didn't eat a thing the day before and the day of her performance," said Jodi Weidmann-Sparks, Jordin's mother. "She must have been so hungry and may have temporarily hallucinated. She didn't mean to eat anyone."
Los Angeles Police Department investigators led by Lieutenant George Marquez have deemed the incident "an unfortunate accident" and will not be laying charges.
"As a society, we need to look at this tragedy and learn from it," said Marquez. "If Jordin wasn't being pressured to look thin, she wouldn't have crash-dieted, and we would still have Allison around to entertain us with her rocker chick antics."
Lambert said he will be dying his hair red to commemorate Iraheta during next week's season finale.
"She was like a sister to me. I'm going to miss her so much," said a teary-eyed Lambert.
