Lily Allen’s mum feared her daughter was headed for a similar destiny as Amy Winehouse.
The singer, 38, who’s now settled together with her ‘Stranger Issues’ actor husband David Harbour, 48, and her two kids, went via a wild interval when she hit fame as a singer, and her mom Alison Owen says she noticed Lily and Amy undergo disturbingly comparable struggles after they have been first thrust into the general public eye.
Alison, 63, who’s a producer on the upcoming Amy Winehouse biopic ‘Again to Black’, instructed The Instances she although being within the highlight “would destroy my daughter” and lead her down the identical grim path Amy ended up on – which noticed her die aged 27 in 2011 from alcohol poisoning.
Referring to Lily’s former hellraising actor dad Keith Allen, 70, she added: “Lily fitted the invoice as a result of, early in her success, her function mannequin was her dad.
“She’d seen him idolized for swearing, taking medicine and being drunk within the Groucho Membership (in London), so in her younger mind she thought that’s what you probably did while you turned well-known.
“She didn’t notice it’s solely OK for males. Ladies get punished for it.”
Alison stated photographers would watch for Lily within the early days of her fame and “say issues like, ‘I see your single’s taking place the charts,’ or, ‘You’ve placed on weight, Lily’” within the hope of constructing her “indignant or cry”.
Alison additionally spoke about feeling disturbed after seeing Amy wanting excessive on medicine and shockingly skinny whereas out together with her former accomplice Blake Fielder-Civil, 41, at a music business occasion.
She stated: “Amy was as skinny as a pencil. And he or she and Blake have been in the midst of this room dancing in a full-on sexual approach.
“Each have been clearly ‘utilizing’ and I keep in mind considering, ‘That is an accident ready to occur. That is going to be a catastrophe.’”
Lily has now been sober for 4 years and is specializing in her performing profession from her house within the US, the place she is elevating her daughters, 12-year-old Ethel and 10-year-old Marnie, who she had together with her 46-year-old first husband Sam Cooper.
Alison added: “Lily was fortunate. She’s blissful citing her kids.”
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