--- title: Little Girl Vomits on Paula Abdul After Dancing to Beyonce description: After blowing the judges away with her routine to Beyoncé's countdown, Chi Tahani threw up on So You Think You Can Dance's Paula Abdul canonical: https://time.com/4361175/paula-abdul-vomiting-girl-so-you-think-you-can-dance/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-06-08T14:35:50.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:33:07.036Z og:title: Little Girl Vomits All Over Paula Abdul After Dancing to Beyoncé og:description: "All the happiness came out on her jacket" og:url: https://time.com/4361175/paula-abdul-vomiting-girl-so-you-think-you-can-dance/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Little Girl Vomits All Over Paula Abdul After Dancing to Beyoncé twitter:description: "All the happiness came out on her jacket" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # A Little Girl Vomited All Over Paula Abdul After Dancing to Beyoncé  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Jun 8, 2016 2:35 PM UTC  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Jun 8, 2016 2:35 PM UTC After blowing the judges away with her [routine](http://time.com/4308342/chris-christie-bruce-springsteen-barclays-center-brooklyn/) to [Beyoncé’s](http://time.com/4359633/beyonce-khaleesi-game-thrones-destinys-child/) “Countdown,” Chi Tahani made an unprecedented move to close out her _So You Think You Can Dance: The Next Generation_ audition. The 12-year-old contestant was immediately — and unanimously — voted through to the next round, a moment that had her falling over in excitement. But when she went to give [Paula Abdul](http://time.com/3510790/paula-abdul-breast-cancer-check-yourself-music-video/) a celebratory hug, she vomited all over the judge. “I’m so sorry,” she exclaimed. Overall, Tahani seemed fairly unfazed by the incident though. During a post-audition interview, she explained that she had just gotten a bit overwhelmed. “I hugged Nigel, and I hugged Paula,” she told host Cat Deeley. “And she just squeezed me too tight. And all the happiness came out on her jacket.” Watch the full video above. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4361175/paula-abdul-vomiting-girl-so-you-think-you-can-dance/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4361175/paula-abdul-vomiting-girl-so-you-think-you-can-dance/"},"headline":"A Little Girl Vomited All Over Paula Abdul After Dancing to Beyoncé","datePublished":"2016-06-08T14:35:50.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:33:07.036Z","description":"\"All the happiness came out on her jacket\"","url":"https://time.com/4361175/paula-abdul-vomiting-girl-so-you-think-you-can-dance/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","viral","TV"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4361175/paula-abdul-vomiting-girl-so-you-think-you-can-dance/","name":"A Little Girl Vomited All Over Paula Abdul After Dancing to Beyoncé"}}]}] ```