Attention Erin Andrews, this is how you deal with a fuzzy video that purports to be you - DENY, DENY, DENY!!! Gossip Girl star Leighton Meester addresses images of a supposedly home made sex tape that surfaced earlier this year in an interview with Harper's Bazaar.

Having recently been bitten hard by a peril of fame, an alleged sex tape, she arrives at the interview coated in metaphorical sheet metal. Let's get it out of the way, then: In June, some provocative pictures of a rumored "18 years old!!" Leighton were splashed around the Web. While a sex tape can now conceivably be used as a marketing tool (hello, Paris Hilton), in Leighton's case, the reaction was "Oh, no, she didn't."

And, according to Leighton, that would be correct. "[The tape] is not real," she says bluntly, "so it makes me sort of sad. It's unfortunate that it got carried as far as it did." She pauses. "I definitely understand the nature of people better now and that the mere allegation of something like that could be headline news. People think it's real because somebody says it is." She takes a sip of her Coke. "By the way, [as for] me being 18 in those pictures, I don't believe I was.

"I don't want most of what comes along with all of this," Leighton continues at a Blairlike clip. She is protective of her friends, family -- much has been written about mother Connie's entering federal prison on drug-smuggling charges while pregnant with Leighton -- and relationship (with actor Sebastian Stan). "I'm doing everything I can to keep things separate. I feel like my friends are in a cult because we're like, No outsiders! I've never been crazy. I'm a very good girl, to be honest. I don't do anything to hurt anybody. Honestly, all I ever do is work."

More real pictures of Leighton Meester at Harper's Bazaar