'She didn't have a single drink': Amanda Bynes father insists his daughter was not drunk on night of arrest

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By Daily Mail Reporter
PUBLISHED: 23:26 GMT, 9 April 2012 | UPDATED: 23:41 GMT, 9 April 2012

Amanda Bynes' father has angrily denied his daughter was under the influence on the night she arrested on suspicion of drink driving.
Rick Bynes claims his fomer Nickelodeon star daughter had not had a drop of alcohol when she was pulled over after allegedly passing a cop car and sideswiping the vehicle.  
He told People.com: 'She was not drunk. I was told that she blew a zero on the breathalszer. 

Facing the music: Amanda Bynes spotted leaving a police station in West Hollywood on Friday after being arrested on suspicion of drink driving in the early hours of the morning

'She didn't have a single drink that night. My daughter doesn't drink.'

Defence: Amanda's father Rick Bynes says his daughter was not drinking on the night she was arrested

Rick claims it was police who were at fault after pulling out in front of his 26-year-old daughter as she turned at the West Hollywood intersection in the early hours of Friday morning.
He says his daughter was arrested because she was 'upset and emotional'.
Amanda was at Los Angeles club Greystone Manor hours before her arrest.
Her father's defence comes amid fresh claims Amanda was turned away from The Standard Hotel on Friday night - just hours after she was released on $5,000 bail.
According to TMZ, the Easy A actress had also been drinking at the hotel's nightclub the evening before.
Having heard of the 3am drama on Friday morning, the hotel did not want to be associated with actress, according to the website.
Sources told TMZ Amanda and her friends left without causing a fuss.

Legs on show: The former Nickelodeon star was pulled over after a scraping past a police car

According to her booking sheet, Bynes was arrested at 3am and taken to West Hollywood sheriff's station.
According to her booking sheet, Bynes is 5'7" and 125 lbs.
In her mugshot she is seen with pink hair and sporting heavy eye make-up.
Bynes shot to fame as a child star on All That and The Amanda Show on children's channel Nickelodeon.

Mugshot: The 26-year-old actress is seen in her police photograph
and, right, in Nickelodeon's The Amanda Show

Booked: The details of the incident were logged on the actress's arrest sheet

She later appeared on the big screen in several teen films including What a Girl Wants, Love Wrecked, She's the Man, Hairspray, Sydney White and most recently alongside Emma Stone in Easy A.
It's not the first time the actress has been in trouble with the law.

On March 7 the actress was pulled over for allegedly talking on her phone before bolting from the scene before the police finished issuing her a ticket.
She was not arrested - but later visited a police station to sign her ticket.
The day before, Bynes had tweeted: 'Live fast die young bad girls do it well!'

Keeping her head down: The actress covered her face with her hands as she was driven away