A rep for former teen idol David Cassidy said on Thursday that the actor adamantly denied being drunk behind the wheel after being arrested in Florida.
The “Partidge Family” star was caught with a half-empty bottle of bourbon in his car after being pulled over on the state’s turnpike around 8:00pm local time Wednesday, following careless driving, TMZ.com reported.
Cassidy, now 60, told cops he drank a glass of wine at lunch and popped a painkiller a few hours before he was stopped.
But breath tests showed blood alcohol readings of 0.139 and 0.141 — way over the .08 legal limit.
The highway patrol trooper who caught him then found the bourbon bottle after searching Cassidy’s car, a 2008 Mercedes.
Cassidy’s rep Jo-Ann Geffen later said that Cassidy was not drunk and was ready to fight any DUI charges, adding, “He would never jeopardize anyone on the road, and he would not have been driving had he not had to go to a funeral … he’s never been arrested in his life before for anything.”