DioGuardi said in a statement, “I felt like I won the lottery when I joined American Idol two years ago, but I feel like now is the best time to leave Idol. I am very proud to have been associated with American Idol — it has truly been an amazing experience.”
Joe said, "Would you believe that she did not hear, and still has not heard, anything? She read it the way you did and I did. Her disappointment is that that's the way she's being treated and she feels that's not proper. I think they're trying to create a lot of buzz."But thinking positively, Joe doesn't think that the career of her daughter will suffer.
Joe said, "Kara has a very deep career in music. She'll be fine. Would she want to do it another year? I think so... I think at some point [she] will confront them on that."
Kara said, “This shoot was less about beauty than about taking a risk and showing people a side of me they have never seen.”DioGuardi struggled with binge eating and depression in her early 20s.
"Back then I was a size 6 or 8; now I'm more like a size 2. Food is not what I use to anesthetize myself anymore."
“I can’t get over it. Completely shocked,” Kara said during an interview on KIIS FM’s On-Air with Ryan Seacrest on Friday. “It’s such a loss for the show, such a loss for the contestants.”
She added, “She’s definitely the heart of the panel and the kind of heart she treats the contestants with she treated me with last year during the auditions. She was so kind to me and made me feel immediately like I was part of the panel. And I hoping she’ll reconsider.”
“The way I’m understanding, it was her choice to leave,” Kara told Ryan. “How could you ever replace [her]? She’s an incredible talent. She is somebody who helped to make the show as big as it is. And how could you ever replace that?”FOX denies speculations that that hiring Kara is their "insurance policy" if Abdul will leave the show.
In a statement, Simon Fuller said, "We are so happy to welcome back Kara for her second season with Idol. She is a breath of fresh air, and her passion for music and her understanding of talent is invaluable. This show is all about discovering new talent, and Kara's championing of Adam Lambert is proof positive of her great instinct."Now the big question mark remains on Paula Abdul future on the American Idol family. She is still working out about the "fair" details of her contract.
DioGuardi, 38, and McCuddy, 34, got engaged last December in Mexico. They announced their engagement the day of her Idol debut on the show's eighth season premiere.Kara tells In Touch, "I feel great. What was most unbelievable about the experience was when I looked out at the church and saw all these people that were so important to me and Mike, who were there for us. It was pretty powerful. I was very emotional and I'm not somebody who breaks down and cries."
In her guesting on The View, Kara said, “I don’t think that Adam was ever in [the closet]. I think he was always openly out. I never thought he wasn’t.”Barbara Walters asked whether Adam's sexuality may have influenced Idol voters...
DioGuardi says, "Well, first of all, I hope not ... because we should be judging on talent and viability in the music industry and they both [Lambert and winner Kris Allen] had that."
