Lily Allen has mentioned she is to take a break from her award-winning podcast with childhood buddy Miquita Oliver, as she is “really not in a good place”.
The singer and actress made the announcement in Thursday’s episode of the BBC Sounds podcast Miss Me? after additionally discussing her psychological well being in earlier episodes.
“I’m finding it hard to be interested in anything,” Allen mentioned. “I’m really not in a good place… I know I’ve been talking about it for months, but I’ve been spiralling and spiralling and spiralling, and it’s got out of control.”
It comes amid experiences that Allen and her husband, the Stranger Issues star David Harbour, have cut up up. The pair married in Las Vegas in 2020 and had been residing collectively in New York along with her two daughters.
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Allen married Stranger Issues star David Harbour in 2020. Pic: PA 2022
Through the podcast episode, Allen added: “I just can’t concentrate on anything except the pain that I’m going through. And it’s really hard.”
She mentioned she could be “going away” for just a few weeks to take a while out – and reassured listeners that she just isn’t going right into a rehab facility. Nonetheless, it will likely be someplace the place she is “not allowed” her telephone, she mentioned.
The 39-year-old British star has been sober since giving up alcohol about 5 years in the past.
She launched her final album, No Disgrace, in 2018, and since then has moved into performing, acting on stage within the West Finish in 2:22 A Ghost Story and the revival of Martin McDonagh’s Olivier Award-winning comedy The Pillowman.
She additionally starred within the Sky collection Dreamland.
Allen and former Popworld presenter Oliver launched the Miss Me? podcast in March 2024, with the present billed as a twice weekly “transatlantic catch-up” to debate all the pieces from the highs and lows of their lives to the most important cultural moments of the week.
Additionally they reply listeners’ questions on completely different matters.
In September, they received the most effective leisure prize on the British Podcast Awards.
In current episodes, Allen has mentioned she is hoping to return into the studio to document extra music later this 12 months.
The Brit and Ivor Novello-winning singer is understood for hits together with Smile, LDN and The Concern, as effectively her cowl of Keane’s Someplace Solely We Know, which was used within the 2013 John Lewis Christmas advert.
