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Sky Ferreira has opened up about her much-publicised recent arrest, stressing that she 'is not a drug addict'.
Last month, Ferreira and DIIV's guitarist Zachary Cole Smith were arrested at Saugerties in New York, when Smith was reportedly found with a plastic bag containing 42 decks of heroin and Ferreira 'was found in possession of ecstasy and resisted arrest'.
Now in a new interview with Billboard, Ferreira claims that the Saugerties Police had ulterior motives and that they were out to get them.
"I legally can't say much about what happened, but it's not what it all seems," she said. "I kind of got fucked with. And it's annoying because I wasn't charged with his heroin. It says it. The public records are out there... If I was even anywhere near that, they would've charged me because they had no problem charging me with other shit. They were out to kind of like fuck with us."
She continued: "I'm scared to say more than that because I don't want them to arrest us anymore... No one actually knows what happened besides Cole and I and the Saugerties Police."
Watch the Ferreira and Smith covering Cat Power's 'Nude As The News' on the day after their arrest below
Discussing the drug habit rumours that surrounded her arrest, Ferreira stressed: "It's hard that every day now I have people calling me a heroin addict or making fun of me and saying that I'm gonna die of AIDS from needles and shit like that. The one thing I think that bothers me the most is people being self-righteous about it and not knowing what they're talking about. Read what it says.
"People are being really hypocritical about it and just using it as a way to mock us. I don't like the way people are treating me and Cole. If I thought someone had a problem, I would help them, I would want to get them help. I know for a fact I'm not a drug addict. That's all I really have to say about it."
DIIV also took to Twitter last month to respond to the charges and defend Sky's innocence:
what you're reading is a police blotter, not the outcome of a court case. these cops wanted to fuck us, and they did. sky did nothing wrong.
— DIIV (@DIIV) September 16, 2013
