Lily Allen to take break from podcast Miss Me? over ‘spiralling’ mental health

Lily Allen has mentioned she is taking a break from her podcast for “just a few weeks” as a result of her psychological well being is “spiralling” and he or she shouldn’t be “in place”.

Talking on the most recent episode of Miss Me?, the PJ Sounds present she hosts with Miquita Oliver, the pop star-turned-actor mentioned she had been going by means of a “powerful interval” together with panic assaults.

It comes amid experiences of a cut up from her husband, Stranger Issues star David Harbour.

Allen mentioned she was at the moment “unable to focus on something besides the ache I am going by means of”.

“I am discovering it laborious to be interested by something. I am actually not in place,” she mentioned on Thursday’s episode.

“I do know I have been speaking about it for months, however I have been spiralling and spiralling and spiralling, and it is bought uncontrolled. I’ve tried.

“I got here to the Miss Me? Christmas lunch and had a panic assault and needed to go residence,” the 39-year-old added. “And I went to see one thing on the theatre the opposite night time with my mates… and I needed to go away at half-time.

“I simply can’t consider something besides the ache that I am going by means of. And It is actually laborious.”

The singer, who now lives within the US together with her two daughters, went on to say she was “going away subsequent week”, including: “You are not going to listen to me for just a few weeks, listeners.”

However regardless of “rumours” that she was going into drug rehab, she mentioned that was not the case and he or she had not relapsed.

She did not say the place she’s going, however mentioned she is “not allowed my telephone”.

“They are not doing us any good,” she mentioned. “They’re definitely not doing me any good in the mean time. I actually do not like my telephone.”

Podcast co-host Oliver instructed listeners she would “drive this ship” in Allen’s absence and “watch for the captain to return”.

The present, which launched final yr, sees childhood mates Allen and former Popworld host Oliver take pleasure in twice weekly “transatlantic catch-ups, discussing the highs and lows of their lives and the most important cultural moments of the week”.

Allen made her West Finish theatre debut in 2:22 – A Ghost Story in 2021, and is because of return to the stage in Hedda, a brand new model of Henrik Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler, at Bathtub Theatre Royal’s Ustinov Studio in July.

She can be reportedly filming a display adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s comedian novel Night time and Day.

The Brit Award winner talked about in a earlier episode that she hoped to return into the studio to document extra music later this yr.