‘Bullied’ singer criticises former friends
SINGer Lily Allen has hit out at her former celebrity friends – saying that their behaviour left her feeling bullied.
The musician, who enjoyed this year’s No1 Christmas hit with Somewhere Only We Know , retired from music four years ago. She attacked the contemporary music scene, saying it was full of fake and “sterile Botoxed idiots”.
She revealed she was ostracised by people who she had counted as friends when she became pregnant.
Allen, now 28, claims that the era of Britpop, when celebrities and their friends were taking drugs and “having sex with each other”, was more “real”. The mother-of-two, who has made her pop comeback with new single hard Out here and her rendition of Somewhere Only We Know for televised Christmas commercial for retailer John Lewis said of becoming famous: “I thought the people in that showbiz circle were my friends. But almost the second I got pregnant and I wasn’t able to go out and party, they were suddenly quite nasty.
“There’s a way that those people survive, and it’s not by being nice. The way they make themselves feel powerful is to ostracise other people.
“I feel blessed to be able to recognise that but at the same time it can still feel pretty s*** when you walk into a room full of people and you can feel the eyes looking at you and people laughing. It’s hard for me because I will eternally feel like that little bullied girl at school, because that’s what I was.”