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Metro
02-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Metro
Lily Allen ‘can't remember' how many abortions she had before IUD contraception
To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video Lily Allen has opened up about having a number of abortions before she went on IUD contraception. The Smile hitmaker, 40, and TV presenter Miquita Oliver, 41, were discussing contraception and abortion in their latest episode of their Miss Me? podcast when Lily made the revelation. In the episode, released yesterday, Lily opened up about not being able to remember 'exactly how many' abortions she's had, guessing the number is 'about 4 or 5'. 'I have an IUD now. I think I'm on my third, or maybe fourth [IUD]. I just remember before that, it was a complete disaster area,' Lily said while talking about the coil. 'I'd get pregnant all the time. All the time,' Lily said of life before her IUD. 'Were you fertile like me in those days?' asked Miquita. 'Oh yeah,' Lily said, before singing; 'Abortions, I've had a few, but then again I can't remember exactly how many.' 'Really?' asked Miquita, to which Lily replied, 'Yeah,' before confirming: 'I would say I've had about 4 or 5.' 'I've had 5 too,' Miquita said, adding: 'I'm so happy I can say that, and you can say it and no one came to shoot us down.' Lily also recalled thinking it was 'romantic' when a man offered to pay for her abortion after getting her pregnant, laughing darkly at the memory. 'I don't think he called me after,' she added. Lily has campaigned for abortion rights before. Her chat on Miss Me? comes three years after Lily took to the stage at Glastonbury with this year's headliner Olivia Rodrigo to sing her 00s classic F**k You in protest of the Supreme Court overturning Roe vs Wade that week. To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video The pair took to the stage with the memorable performance after it was announced that the Supreme Court had decided to reverse a decision from 50 years ago, putting an end to guaranteed abortion rights and marking a huge step back for women's rights. The Not Fair hitmaker has previously opened up about her personal life on the podcast, nodding to the recent breakdown of her marriage to Strenger Things actor David Harbour. In May, Lily described a sense of spiralling, paired with intense panic attacks that left her feeling out of control. Allen admitted she needed professional help to improve her worsening mental health, so she subsequently checked herself into a trauma treatment centre near her US home. This wasn't about rehab, she clarified, but was purely to address her mental health. The facility, which offers intensive therapy and costs around £8,000 a week, became her temporary home while she worked through her feelings post-breakup. Miquita and Lily's conversation about abortion comes at a time when Republican-led US states are moving to a near-total ban on abortions, which would make abortion at any stage of pregnancy equivalent to murder under state law. A person who undergoes the procedure could face life in prison or the death penalty as a result. In the UK, MPs recently made a historic move, voting to finally decriminalise abortion in England and Wales after 60 long years. More Trending It represents a 'monumental change to our abortion law', Katherine O'Brien, from the leading abortion provider BPAS, told Metro of the ruling. However, she also explained why it's needed. 'Increasingly, women are being investigated by police under suspicion of illegally ending their own pregnancy, and this includes women who've experienced miscarriages, stillbirth and access to legal care, and the impact that can have on their lives, their family, is unimaginable,' O'Brien said. 'This vote will mean that will come to an end, and that is a huge, huge achievement.' Got a story? If you've got a celebrity story, video or pictures get in touch with the entertainment team by emailing us celebtips@ calling 020 3615 2145 or by visiting our Submit Stuff page – we'd love to hear from you. MORE: James Bond favourite addresses split from fiancé after 'first date' with Lily Allen MORE: Pro-life Republican 'nearly died' during ectopic pregnancy amid abortion ban MORE: The abortion pills-in-post system needs a serious overhaul
News.com.au
29-04-2025
- Entertainment
- News.com.au
Lily Allen apologises for ‘being mean' to Katy Perry about ‘out-of-touch' Blue Origin space flight
Lily Allen regrets 'being mean' to Katy Perry by slamming the pop star's Blue Origin space flight. The Smile singer acknowledged her 'own internalised misogyny' after discussing Meghan Markle's haters in Monday's episode of her Miss Me? podcast. 'Because we're talking about a very famous female person who's a bit divisive, I would actually like to apologise for being mean about Katy Perry last week,' Allen said. 'There was actually no need for me to bring her name into it, and it was my own internalised misogyny.' Allen, 39, admitted to singling out Perry, 40, despite the E.T. singer being joined by five other women on the galactic excursion: Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos' fiancee, Lauren Sánchez, journalist Gayle King, aerospace engineer Aisha Bowe, civil rights activist Amanda Nguyen and film producer Kerianne Flynn. 'I've been thinking about it a lot, and it was just completely unnecessary to pile on with her,' the English star said. 'I do disagree with what it was that they did, but she wasn't the only person that did it.' Allen explained that Perry was 'possibly the most famous' person on the flight and therefore 'the one that divides people the most.' 'There was something in me that decided to choose her,' she said before adding, 'Anyway, I just, I'm really sorry.' The LDN singer put herself in the former American Idol judge's shoes and shared that she would feel terrible if the roles were reversed. 'I would have been hurt if it had been me and someone in my industry used me and my name. I'm sorry,' she added. 'I'm sorry, Katy Perry. I know you don't listen to the show, but yeah, sorry.' Allen initially ripped into Perry's highly criticised space jaunt last week. 'Do we want to talk about Katy Perry and her mates all going up to space for 12 minutes?' she asked her podcast co-host, Miquita Oliver, who replied, 'I think that if they're going to go to space for 12 minutes, we can talk about it for 10 seconds, and that's about all it deserves.' The Fear vocalist went on to question the 'point' of the trip and said it was 'so out of touch.' 'We're on the brink of recession. People are really f***ing struggling to make ends meet and get food on their table. I don't know about how things feel in London, but in New York, it's really f***ing expensive at the moment,' she said at the time. 'It's hard to leave the house without spending $500, and I'm not even joking. It's cheaper for me to DoorDash food, to get takeaway, than it is for me to go and get groceries and cook.' While Allen said she is financially 'OK,' she felt it was 'glaringly obvious how f***ing hard it is to make it work in a city like this.' 'I know it's not necessarily a nationwide issue in terms of New York is definitely at the steeper end of the country than other places; it just seems like things are hard at the moment,' she said. The F**k You singer then said Perry was sent to space for 'absolutely no f***ing reason.' 'It's like … we send people to space to discover things, like [for a] scientific reason, and the fact that they have made it some sort of feminist thing,' she said of the all-women crew. The Dark Horse artist, for her part, briefly addressed the public backlash by asking the audience at her concert in Mexico City last week, 'Has anyone ever called your dreams crazy?'
