Lily Allen claims her expletive-ridden spat with Elton John this week was blown out of proportion.
"Elton John and I are friends," she blogs on her MySpace page. "I was honored when Elton asked me to present the GQ awards with him this year in association with Elton's AIDS foundation. Not only was it for a good cause, but who would say no to Elton?"
But the singer raised eyebrows after she appeared intoxicated onstage and got into a heated verbal exchange with the singer. ("F*** off, Elton, I'm 40 years younger than you," Allen snapped after he criticized her drinking.)
"I'm not defending my drunkenness because I don't need to," Allen writes. "I'm 23. It was an awards ceremony, I drank the free champagne - how awful of me."
But she says "trying to create a feud .... and trying to make me out as being some rude little girl with a drink[ing] problem is just unfair.
"Elton and I exchanged jokes and there were no hard feelings at all," she continues. "Neither of us gave it a second thought."
(She also said she was just "winding Alfie up" when she called her brother's girlfriend Jaime Winstone "my very soon-to-be sister-in-law.")
"I've been made to feel like a bad friend and an embarrassment to my fans and the people who support me," Allen says before signing off. "I shouldn't have to defend myself when I've done nothing wrong."
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