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Officials from the Beverly Hills Police Department have confirmed David Arquette was not under the influence when he was involved in a car crash last Friday.

The Scream actor was left bruised and bleeding after he swerved his Cadillac into oncoming traffic in West Hollywood and collided with another vehicle.

Arquette, who spent much of January in rehab in a bid to kick his alcohol addiction, suffered minor injuries and claimed he refused to allow doctors to prescribe him any pain pills as he continued his quest for sobriety.

And police spokesman Lieutenant Tony Lee has now ruled out any suggestion that the star was intoxicated during the accident.

Lee tells People.com, “No alcohol or drugs were involved in the crash whatsoever. It appears that the accident will be Mr. Arquette’s fault for driving on the wrong side of the roadway.”

Arquette was on his way to the airport at the time of the crash to fly to Las Vegas to attend a restaurant opening. He cancelled the trip as a result of the incident.

Actor David Arquette has opened up about a family intervention which sparked his post-Christmas rehab stint, revealing he arrived home from a Christmas party trip to Miami, Florida to find his actress sister Patricia and estranged wife Courteney Cox at his bedside as he awoke from a nap.

Arquette checked into rehab at the beginning of January and has now spoken about the moment he knew it was time to get sober during a taped chat with Oprah Winfrey, which will air on TV in America on Thursday.

He explains, “I came back from Miami and I’d taken a nap and I woke up and Patricia and Courteney were at my bed.

“Courteney had a cup of coffee and I was like, ‘What are you two doing here together?’ Like I already knew… And Courteney’s like, ‘Do you mind coming out into the living room for a second?’

“I peep my head around the corner and my best friend… is there and my business partner and some guy I don’t know, and I go, ‘What up turkeys? I guess this is my intervention.’”

That took place on December 30, 2010 but Arquette reveals he still attended a New Year’s Eve party the following night – because he had promised he would be there. But he didn’t drink.

He adds, “I was sober at the New Year’s event. It was at this club I was putting on… I had already been sober and so I went there because it was something I was planning on doing and I wanted to see if I could do it sober, if I could still entertain and dance around. And I could and I had a great time.”

In the hard-hitting chat with Winfrey, Arquette admits he drank his first beer when he was four and already had a “serious” drinking problem by the time he started high school. He also told the talk show host he stole marijuana from his father when he was eight.

Arquette’s sisters Patricia and Rosanna will be part of the show when it airs.

Actor David Arquette, the estranged husband of former “Friends” star Courteney Cox, has checked into rehab to deal with alcohol and depression issues, according to news reports on Sunday.

Arquette, 39, and Cox, 46, announced in October that they were undergoing a trial separation after 11 years and one daughter together, but still loved each other “deeply.”

Since then, both have been linked to other people, while Arquette has been unusually open about his marital woes and his subsequent sexual and drinking activities.

People magazine said Cox was supportive of her husband’s decision to get help. “I really admire David and his choice to take charge and better his life,” it quoted Cox as saying. “I love and support him.”

The couple met on the set of the 1996 horror film “Scream,” and married three years later.

But while Cox enjoyed a red-hot decade-long run on “Friends” as the fussy domestic diva Monica, Arquette failed to capitalize on the commercial success of the “Scream” series and on the critical acclaim for his 2001 Holocaust drama “The Grey Zone.”

The couple will reunite on screen in April when “Scream 4″ is due to hit theaters.

The Hollywood stars announced in October that they were taking a break after 11 years of marriage to work on their personal problems.

Arquette subsequently went public with his troubles on the radio airwaves, telling his pal Howard Stern the former Friends star had tired of his immaturity.

He also confirmed rumours he had slept with aspiring actress Jasmine Waltz after the separation, and confessed live on air he hadn’t been intimate with Cox in “like four months”.

The Scream actor opened up about his emotions on air again on Wednesday, admitting the love split has left him a wreck.

When asked by Stern if he’s “having a nervous breakdown”, he replied, “I believe so.”

Arquette also revealed he’s turned to a psychiatrist to discuss his issues in weekly sessions, adding, “Everybody is worried and concerned about me.”

And he’s been drowning his sorrows with alcohol, confessing he made a fool out of himself at Adam Sandler’s recent holiday party.

He said, “I was a little wasted. Someone says ‘Hi David!’, and I said, ‘Hi Sean! Then I realised it was Tom Cruise. And his beautiful wife (Katie Holmes) was there. Tom was cool about it… I was so embarrassed. I was like ‘I gotta get the f**k out of here.’”

But the cringe-worthy incident has made Arquette vow to turn his life around and stop drinking so he can win back the mother of his little girl, Coco: “I’ve been drinking a lot because I’m heartbroken. It’s really a personal, traumatic thing. When I drink, I become a maniac. When you wake up and reality hits you, it’s hard.

“(Cox) didn’t want to be my mother. But I kind of need a mother… I want love in my life. I need love in my life.”