The singer said she did “shadow work” and “inner child stuff” to find healing
Lily Allen is focusing on her “lifelong journey of healing.” In a new interview with BBC’s Miss Me? podcast, which is hosted by Allen and Miquita Oliver, the musician shared she spent time receiving treatment at a facility to focus on her emotional struggles.
“I just feel very grateful to have been given the time and the space that I needed… Well, I went into a sort of treatment center for a few weeks, which was great,” Allen told Oliver. “I did a lot of group therapy and some individual therapy and I needed some time and space away from everything.”
The singer said she did “shadow work” and “inner child stuff” to find healing,” which was “not easy.”
While Allen hasn’t publicly acknowledged it, the conversation arrives after People reported that she had split from her husband David Harbour. Allen, who has two daughters from a previous relationship, said she was having trouble making them “feel safe and secure” because of the “emotional turmoil” she was facing.
“I do feel like I am now. I‘m not saying I’m 100 percent there, and I’m not saying that I’m getting it 100 percent right or ever will,” she said. “But I’m definitely in a stronger place.”
Allen emphasized that she needed to be her “strongest self” for her kids and that was why she decided to go to the treatment facility. “I felt like it was getting harder and harder for me to be able to show up for them in the way that they need me to,” she shared.
“It was a really big decision to have to leave them for a few weeks to go and focus on myself, but ultimately it was for them,” Allen added. “Yes, it’s for me, but it’s for them so that I can get us through this bit. I needed some help to be able to do that.”
