NEWS OF THE WEEK: Lily Allen likens social media ban to ‘withdrawing from drugs'
Speaking on the Miss Me? podcast, The Smile hitmaker shared, "I'm nearly two weeks into a complete social media ban. The beginning of last week, I was feeling incredibly low, like lower than I've felt in months. It was extremely heavy.' "And then I realised maybe this is because I'm not filling the gaps with doom scrolling and I've suddenly got this time for like reflection, you know what I mean?" She continued: "I don't have that much to do here in New York during the day,…
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