David Cassidy denies driving drunk

Singer-actor David Cassidy, of the 1970s musical sitcom "The Partridge Family," Thursday denied he was driving drunk when state police stopped him on Florida's Turnpike in St. Lucie County Wednesday evening.

Cassidy's publicist, Jo-Ann Geffen, told TMZ.com that the former teen heartthrob "would never jeopardize anyone on the road and he would not have been driving had he not had to go to a funeral . . . [H]e's never been arrested in his life before for anything."

Cassidy was charged with driving under the influence after the Florida Highway Patrol says the actor failed two breath tests and two field sobriety tests. The actor had an "approximately half empty" bottle of bourbon "in the back seat floorboard . . . with access by the defendant," according to the police report.

Cassidy was weaving in and out of his lane and abruptly pulled in front of a small red car that "had to abruptly brake to avoid a collision," according to the arrest report, which TMZ posted online.

When troopers pulled over Cassidy at about 6 p.m., "The defendant stated that he [had] had a glass of wine around lunch time and a hydrocodone" - the generic name for Vicodin and other painkillers - "at approximately 3:30 p.m."

After Cassidy reportedly failed two field tests, officers administered two breath tests, which they say recorded 0.139 and 0.141 blood-alcohol content, far over the state's 0.08 legal limit.

Cassidy's rep says the tests were measured incorrectly.

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Cassidy, 60, who lives in Fort Lauderdale, was released from county jail around 3 a.m. Thursday on $350 bail, according to E! News.