Lily Allen: “When you take cocaine you think all of your ideas are brilliant and need to be shared”

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Lily Allen has reflected on her days of addiction, remembering that when she was on cocaine, “you think all of your ideas are brilliant and need to be shared”.The popstar and actor was speaking to The Guardian in a joint interview with Miquita Oliver about their shared podcast Miss Me?.In it, she discussed her five years of sobriety and her settled life in Brooklyn, New York with her husband, the Black Widow actor David Harbour, and her two kids, Ethel and Marnie.“I’m a much more connected and present parent, which is amazing,” she said, about her life without drugs or alcohol. “I got a text from Ethel yesterday and she was very clear: these are the things I’m feeling, I’m sad, I’m upset because of this.

And I was, Oh my God, I’m winning at life! She’s naming her emotions and she’s asking me for help. My relationship with my kids specifically is much better since I got sober.”Looking back at her younger self, she reflected on the reasons why she was attracted to class A drugs.“Drugs and alcohol were very good at drowning out my inner critic,” she said. “When you take cocaine you think all of your ideas are brilliant and need to be shared.”Allen has been open about her struggles with addiction in the past, particularly when she detailed her alcohol and drug abuse in 2020 memoir My Thoughts Exactly.

According to an interview in 2023, the last time she consumed alcohol was on July 28, 2019, adding “my life has changed so much”.Earlier this year, she said that she “stands to lose everything” if she drinks again, while also recalling the time that she was once banned for a year from the Soho club Groucho’s.In the new interview, she went on to talk about what she now has to live without as a sober person.“I can really miss.