Keith Richards has said that the comment he made about snorting his father's ashes in an interview with NME magazine was lost in translation.
On Tuesday the magazine claimed that the rocker had told their journalist that he had mixed the cremated remains of his father with cocaine and snorted them.
A statement on the official Rolling Stones website from Richards says: "The complete story is lost in the usual slanting."
"The truth of the matter is that I planted a sturdy English oak. I took the lid off the box of ashes and he is now growing oak trees and would love me for it. I was trying to say how tight Bert and I were. That tight!"
"I wouldn't take cocaine at this point in my life unless I wished to commit suicide," he added.
Bert Richards died in 2002, aged 84.
