Fiona Apple alleges police mistreatment after drugs arrest

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Fiona Apple was subject to actions she believes were "inappropriate" and "probably illegal" after being arrested for possession of hashish and marijuana in the Texas border town of Sierra Blanca. In a bizarre address to fans at a concert in Houston on Friday, Apple also apologised to "the guy who runs the jail" for being "attitudey".

There were four unspecified officers who were in particular receipt of Apple's ire. "And I want you to know that I heard everything you did," the singer said, according to Rolling Stone. "I wrote it all down with your names and everything you did and said, stupidly thinking that I couldn't hear or see you. I then ripped the paper up, but not before I encoded it and – I got two lock boxes. We'll call them 'holding cell one' and 'holding cell two'.

'In 'holding cell one' is the encoded version of the shit that you did that I know was inappropriate and probably illegal. In 'holding cell two' is the decoder. I'm the only one who holds the key, and you and I will be intimate forever because I will hold that secret forever. Unless of course the celebrity that you had so much interest in but you wanted to accuse me of bringing up while you laughed at me all night? Unless you're interested in being a celebrity, I'll make you fucking famous any time you ask and I'll open those boxes. So why don't you stay in your fucking holding cell?"

Apple, 35, was arrested last Wednesday and spent one night in jail before posting $10,000 bail. The Hudspeth County sheriff's office said she admitted to being the owner of .01 pounds of hashish and the same amount of marijuana.