It’s a miracle Lily’s so sane

she was even at school (when she was a toddler her father took her to festivals in her pushchair, as a lure for his sideline business, selling amyl nitrate) — and more.

Lily has certainly said and done some stupid things in her life; but if even a fraction of what she says is true, then frankly it’s a miracle she’s as sane as she is.

I READ with growing h horror the account in Monday’s Mail of Lily Allen’s childhood, as she prepares to publish h her autobiography.Tales of her father, a actor Keith Allen’s, c casual cruelty and neglect, both parents’ constant drinking and d drug- taking, being e exposed to all the vices o of an adult world before