Diana Ross charged with drink driving

Singer Diana Ross said she was trying to rent a video and got lost when she was stopped for allegedly driving under the influence, according a police report.

Officer Scott Sullivan of Tucson Police in Arizona, stopped Ross early on Monday morning after someone reported that a vehicle was driving south in the northbound lanes of a street in the north east of the town.

Sullivan’s report, released on Tuesday, indicated that he stopped Ross, 58, at a video store, where she had pulled into a parking space for handicapped people.

The report said she twice denied she had been drinking, and said she had been lost and was “just trying to get here to rent a video”.

The report also said Ross consented to a sobriety test, but fell down and laughed while trying to stand on one leg and count to 10.

In another test, it said, she skipped a couple of letters and doubled others when asked to write the alphabet.

Ross was cited on three misdemeanour counts related to driving under the influence and has a January 13 court date.

Police said breath tests showed Ross had a blood-alcohol level of at least 0.2%, more than twice Arizona’s legal limit of 0.08%.

A spokeswoman for her Los Angeles-based publicist, Paul Bloch, declined to comment on the arrest. In May, Bloch had said Ross entered a drug and alcohol rehabilitation centre to deal with personal issues.