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Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton admitted Tuesday that she discarded tens of thousands of emails from a private server kept at her New York home.

In her first extended public remarks about her exclusive use of a personal email account to conduct government business, Clinton was adamant that she complied with all applicable rules and said she went above and beyond by handing over some 30,000 work-related emails to the State Department.

But her admission that she did not turn over roughly half the messages in her private account and will not submit them to independent scrutiny will likely fan the controversy.

At the end, I chose not to keep my private personal emailsemails about planning Chelseas wedding or my mothers funeral arrangements, condolence notes to friends as well as yoga routines, family vacations, the other things you typically find in inboxes, Clinton said, saying attorneys she paid categorized the correspondence.

They were personal and private, she added. They had nothing to do with work. I didnt see any reason to keep them.

Under fire from pundits and political critics, Clinton called the unusual press conferencethe most significant since she left officeto defend herself.

The former Secretary of State said that when she began the job, she made the decision to use her private address as a matter of convenience. She noted the vast majority of her work emails were sent to government employees on their official work accounts, and as a result, those messages are preserved and archived as public records on the other end.

I thought it would be easier to carry just one device for my work and personal emails instead of two, she said. Looking back, she added, it might have been smarter to have two devices from the very beginning.

Read more: Transcript of Hillary Clintons remarks at the press conference

The State Department said Tuesday that it is reviewing by hand 55,000 pages of emails supplied by Clinton. The Department will release emails from that cache on a publicly accessible website once it redacts information not covered by the Freedom of Information Act. The process is expected to take several months.

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Hillary Clinton Did Not Keep Personal Emails