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Effie ain’t feeling the accusations people have been making about her, saying that she’s gotten a little too big for her brazier. Figuratively.

She tells Jawn Murray of “The Tom Joyner Morning Show” that she’s been “hurt” by the backlash since her Oscar triumph, especially allegations that she tried to ditch the “Soul Train Music Awards” and that she demeaned “American Idol” as a mere “stepping stone.” Page Six reported last week that Hudson tried to back out of the “Soul Train ” show, where she received an award. “Why would they dog me out after I was one of the only people to show up on the show?” asks Hudson.

And as for her calling “Idol” a stepping stone — to which Simon Cowell made a pointed and sneering reference on a recent episode — Hudson acknowledges that she did, but says, “I didn’t mean it in a bad way … ‘American Idol’ is a stepping stone because had it not been for them, no one would have known of a Jennifer Hudson to call to audition for ‘Dreamgirls.’” Hudson adds that she’s actually met this year’s “Idol” contenders and taped a segment with them — all at her own request.

She went on to say that she feels everything that she says publicly lately is twisted around to make her look like a “diva.” It’s probably true. That happens to me. Just the other day, I said to the lady who was standing around at the self-checkout down at the Stop -N-Shop – “how come these things never work?” I was trying to scan my can of Hormel corned beef hash. And she was all dude, you a diva, under her breath as she helped me out. I know she saw me on page 49 of Life & Style last month and thought that I was all up on myself, and that I thought I deserved special treatment. I don’t think that. I just want to be able to scan my damn can of hash! Morrissey was right when he said that we hate it when our friends become successful. I’m just happy I could work Jennifer Hudson and Morrissey into the same post. I’m a bridge-builder. The bridges I build span the gaps between the pop culture nations. *bows*