The woman accused of attacking Simon Cowell’s ex, Terri Seymour after the American Idol taping the other night, was charged yesterday with battery and assault.

Since the incident, Janice Thibodeaux has made a statement, saying,

I wasn’t cool with Simon Cowell choking Paula Abdul on the show last week and with her crying-out ‘help’ as he did so. Nobody said anything about that so I wanted to confront him about it because that is not appropriate behavior, is it? She was taking some photographs with her camera and I knew she was his girlfriend so I went up to her to tell her how I felt. We started arguing and then I put my hands around her neck and started choking her just like Simon had done with Paula. Then I walked away and I was tackled by the police but I don’t regret what I did because of what Simon did to Paula, nobody seemed to care about that.

Despite the public confession, Janice pleaded not guilty to all charges.  Her bail is set at $20,000, and she’ll be due back in court on June 4th.