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Sugababe confirms drink drive charge, but no boyfriend bust up
By CMU Editorial | Published on Monday 27 September 2010
Sugababe Amelle Berrabah has confirmed that she was charged with drink driving last week, but accuses newspapers of reporting on the story in a misleading way, adding that the coverage is “sending her rock bottom again”.
She was arrested in north London on Thursday morning after police stopped her and found she was over the drink drive limit. Some reports claimed she’d got in her car while drunk after a “boozy bust up” with her other half Tom Benn. But she insists that was simply not the case. She’d been drinking with friends the previous night and, as it turned out, the alcohol was still in her system the next morning. She was pulled over by police while she was on her way to meet her personal trainer, she says. Well, I’ve always said having a personal trainer is never a good idea.
The Babe tweeted this weekend: “I can’t believe what’s being said! I’m so sad this has happened to me. I got up to do my normal 6am jog, you guys know this as I Twitter about it all the time! I’d been out the night before for drinks with friends and got stopped on the way to meet my personal trainer and it was obviously still in my system. I’m so angry with myself [but] I felt fine and had [had] a coffee. Why do papers always write horrid stuff on me? I feel like I’m going rock bottom again”.
The singer is due in court on 8 Oct to face the DUI charge. Fancy leaving the house early in the morning still a bit drunk from the night before. They should give her Sarah Kennedy’s old slot on Radio 2.
