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Lily Allen pulls out of Isle of Wight festival, is being treated for depression
March 5, 2008
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Lily Allen has been receiving treatment for depression in a private residential clinic. She is receiving treatment following her recent miscarriage and split from boyfriend . Despite being admitted to the clinic, Allen is apparently allowed out to film her BBC TV show, 'Lily Allen And Friends', and to see friends. The Smile (Click on video) singer, 22, endured a tearful start to the year when she learned she had lost her baby, just weeks after announcing her pregnancy. There was further heartbreak when she split from the baby's father, Ed Simons, half of dance duo Chemical Brothers. "She was so happy to be pregnant and was willing to give up her showbiz life to settle down and have a family. Her miscarriage was a huge blow and she hasn't really recovered. She has tried to put on a brave face but she found she needed to get some professional help," said a friend. "She is responding well to treatment and is pleased that she is being allowed out to film her TV show and to keep in touch with the friends supporting her."
Isle Of Wight festival organizer John Giddings said Lily would not be attending the festival. “It's true, they [her representatives] have said she's not coming. They said she hasn't delivered her record, and I said I haven't booked a record, I've booked an artist. “I think the poor girl has got a few problems. It's a good job she (Allen) pulled out now and not the day before. I wish her the best I hope she sorts herself out.”
The Isle Of Wight Festival takes place between June 13 and 15.
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Lily, who claims she wants nothing more to do with partying and vows to change her life recently, launched a scathing attack on the British paparazzi after a photographer allegedly smashed her car window. The 22-year-old returned to her new BMW after a night of partying at London's Groucho Club on Monday to find one of the vehicle's windows was broken. And Allen is adamant the damage was the work of a paparazzo - and is "angered and horrified" by the incident. Writing on her MySpace page, she says: "If you see photos in the press or online of my car window being 'smashed by vandals', I just want you to know that it was one of the many paparazzi who were following us who did it. |
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Biography
Lily Rose Beatrice Allen (born 2 May 1985) is an English singer-songwriter best known for songs such as "Smile" and "LDN". She is the daughter of actor/musician Keith Allen and film producer Alison Owen. Allen also hosts her own BBC Three talk show Lily Allen and Friends.
Her single "Smile" reached number one on the UK singles charts in July 2006. In December 2006, her debut album Alright, Still was voted the third best album of the year by Mixmag. In 2007, it was nominated for the award of Best British Album at the Brit Awards and for Best New Artist at the 2007 MTV Video Music Awards. The album was nominated for a 2008 Grammy Award in the category of "Best Alternative Music Album".
Allen was born in Hammersmith, west London, daughter of Welsh-born comedian Keith Allen and film producer Alison Owen. She and her family eventually settled in the North London borough of Islington. She has an older sister, Sarah; a younger brother, Alfie Owen-Allen (who was the subject of her song "Alfie"); and a younger sister Rebecca. She also has a number of half-siblings. Lily Allen lived for a while with comedian Harry Enfield while her mother dated him. She is the god-daughter of Wild Colonials vocalist Angela McCluskey and is also the god-daughter of late Clash singer and guitarist, Joe Strummer.
In 1988, Allen appeared on The Comic Strip Presents... episode "The Yob", which her father had co-written. When Allen was four years old, her father left the family. Allen claims to have grown up with her mother in a working class environment, living in a council house environment for most of her childhood. This certainly seems at odds with the fact that she attended some of England's costliest public schools; Allen attended 13 schools in all, including Prince Charles's junior alma mater, Hill House School and Bedales School, and was expelled from several of them for drinking, smoking and performing fellatio.
Allen told Loveline that at age 11 she was singing an Oasis tune in the schoolyard when a teacher overheard her and told her she had talent and suggested she do something with it. She took singing lessons with the teacher. She sang at a school play and claimed that the audience was brought to tears at the sight of a troubled young girl doing something good. At that point Allen said she knew that music was something she needed to do either as a lifelong vocation or to get it out of her system. She became a member of the Groucho Club at the age of 17 and in her free time, she listened to artists such as The Specials, T.Rex, and Happy Mondays and read.
Allen made an appearance as a lady-in-waiting in the 1998 film Elizabeth, produced by her mother. She dropped out of school at age fifteen, not wanting to "spend a third of her life preparing to work for the next third of her life, to set herself up with a pension for the next third of her life." After her family went to Ibiza on vacation, Allen told her mother that she was staying with friends but remained in Sant Antoni de Portmany instead. She earned money by working at a Plastic Fantastic record store and dealing in ecstasy.
Allen's vocals appeared on the single "Who Invented Fish & Chips?" by Fat Les, in which her father was the lead singer of the band.
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