Lily Allen settles her scores. The singer shared a lengthy post yesterday on X/Twitter, condemning the hateful messages and death threats she received after speaking on a recent episode of her podcast miss me? her unfortunate experience with a shelter dog that her family had to surrender due to compatibility issues.
The 39-year-old star, who lives between the US with her husband, David Harbour, and the UK, where the father of her two daughters is based, spoke about the difficult moment when her little family had to give up Mary, a puppy rescued from a shelter in New York because of their difficulty in meeting the special needs of the animal, which suffered especially from anxiety.
“Distorted” remarks
But certain words of the interpreter of smile was, according to her, “distorted” in tabloid articles, which incited several Internet users. “People reacted furiously to a series of quotes deliberately put together and twisted to anger people, and as a result I received some truly vile messages, including death threats,” she said at the beginning of her message. “I am fine, but these few days have been very difficult and have had an impact on me and my family. »
The British singer then returned in more detail to the reasons for her separation from the animal, which her family loved “monstrously”. “She developed quite severe separation anxiety and (…) could not be left alone for more than 10 minutes, she went for 3 long walks a day, 2 with us and 1 with a local walker and several other dogs,” he said, before she added that she had even used specialists to help the dog adjust to its new life, to no avail.
Call for calm and “diligence”
Mary was then quickly placed in a home known to the star, who also highlighted her experience with abandoned dogs “since she was four years old”. “We could not meet Mary’s needs; his happiness and well-being was at the heart of our decision, however difficult it was,” she said.
To conclude her message, Lily Allen urged her opponents not to fall into the trap of “clickbait”-like content and stories aimed at “sowing division”, like the “distorted propaganda” at the origin of the “xenophobic and racist riots ” observed. in Britain in recent weeks following the murder of three little girls in Southport, in north-west England.
