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Lily Allen is speaking out for the first time about a stay at a treatment center. The 39-year-old “Smile” singer, who recently separated from husband David Harbour after four years of marriage, addressed her mental health on her return to her BBC podcast Miss Me?, out Thursday (February 13). “I just feel very grateful to have been given the time and the space that I needed. I went into a sort of treatment center for a few weeks, which was great,” she began. Keep reading to find out more… “I did a lot of group therapy and some individual therapy and I just, I needed some time and space away from everything.” Lily did a lot of shadow work about her “inner child stuff” while in treatment, and while it “was not easy by any stretch,” she knows healing is a “lifelong journey.” On the podcast, she said people often think that she “hate[s]” her children. “I absolutely adore my children and I’m in a situation now where I really have to be my strongest self for them. And I felt like it was getting harder and harder for me to be able to show up for them in the way that they need me to,” she said. “It was a really big decision to have to leave them for a few weeks to go and focus on myself, but ultimately it was for them. Yes, it’s for me, but it’s for them so that I can get us through this bit. I needed some help to be able to do that.” She added that she never wanted her daughters to feel as though they have to “prop me up,” and it’s her job to make them “feel safe and secure.” “I just don’t think I was able to do that because of the sort of emotional turmoil that I was in at the time,” she said. “But I do feel like I am now. I‘m not saying I’m 100% there and I’m not saying that I’m getting it 100% right or ever will but I’m definitely in a stronger place.” Lily said she was at the facility when the Los Angeles fires began, and ultimately wound up in the city a week later for work on a new musical. She also said she’s had issues with her medication over the last year, and feels as though that was “a big part of where things became unmanageable,” noting one antidepressant “really did not work for me,” but thinks she is “on the right track [now].” Find out more about her split after four years of marriage.
