Lana Del Rey has revealed that she regrets trusting a Guardian journalist that published an article in which she said she wished she was already dead.

The subject of the interview turned to her idols to which she answered that Kurt Cobain and Amy Winehouse were hers.

When the connection between the two of premature deaths was raised by the journalist, Lana responded by saying "I wish I was dead already."

She continued: "I do! I don't want to have to keep doing this. But I am. That's just how I feel. If it wasn't that way, then I wouldn't say it. I would be scared if I knew [death] was coming, but …"

She has now taken to Twitter with a series of tweets that have since been deleted and said: "I regret trusting the Guardian. I didn't want to do an interview but the journalist was persistent. Alexis [the interviewer was actually Tim Jonze] was masked as a fan but was hiding sinister ambitions and angles. Maybe he's actually the boring one looking for something interesting to write about. His leading questions about death and persona were calculated.”