Avril feels bad for Britney,Avril; I did not trash...

Avril Lavigne has been known to be a big Britney Spears critic but now the pop/punk princess is feeling sorry for the once-pop princess and her situation with the paparazzi.

"No one else has it as hard as Britney," 23-year-old Lavigne tells Maxim magazine. "I feel bad for her. How does she even think with all those flashbulbs?"

Lavigne, who is also being pursued by paparazzi, recounts her own paparazzi run-ins.

"When I'm being followed, everything's thrown off. They run red lights. They cause accidents. She can't even walk to her car. F*****g stalkers!" Part 2:Punk pixie Avril Lavigne wants to set the record straight: She didn't bad-mouth Britney Spears.

Lavigne was quoted in The Sun earlier this week saying, "What's happened to Britney is all down to who she is as a person." Only problem -- she didn't say it.

"I didn't say that," Avril told Los Angeles radio duo Valentine and Lisa Foxx this morning. "I haven't even been talking about her. People ask me about it all the time and I go, 'You know what? I don't know her.'"