Ashlee's Slurry Natter

Ashlee SimsonSchome schtimes schist schjust too hard to speak.

And things pour out a bit skew-whiff...

Just ask Ashlee Simpson - well, er, actually don't bother.

All that chat has been getting too much for her.

And her rep has hit back against claims that she was drunken during a recent radio interview.

It seems that when she popped on a US radio brekkie show she attracted attention because she appeared to have trouble speaking and slurred her words.

There were mutterings that Ash was a wee bit boozy.

But her rep said: "Ashlee was absolutely not intoxicated this morning on Hot 99.5.

"She has been working extremely hard traveling across the country to promote her upcoming new album by performing at night and waking up very early the next day to do radio interviews in the morning - like any of us would be - she was simply just tired."