Christina Aguilera arrested on public-drunkenness charge

LOS ANGELES — Singer Christina Aguilera was arrested by Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies on suspicion of public drunkenness early Tuesday morning, officials said.

Aguilera, 30, was booked on a single count of public drunkenness at the West Hollywood sheriff’s station.

Officials said deputies pulled over a car in which Aguilera was a passenger near a West Hollywood
club. The driver was cited for drunk driving, and Aguilera also was
taken into custody because she was intoxicated, the officials said. She
was being released on $250 bail.

Aguilera made headlines at the Super Bowl for
forgetting some words for the national anthem. She later issued an
apology: “I got so caught up in the moment of the song that I lost my
place. I can only hope that everyone could feel my love for this
country and that the true spirit of its anthem still came through.”

She starred opposite Cher in last year’s movie “Burlesque.”

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