Lily Allen isn’t in a ‘great place mentally’ and has ‘stopped eating’-Kitty Chrisp-Entertainment – Metro

Lily Allen says she keeps on forgetting to eat at the moment (Picture: Dave Benett/Getty Images for Harper’s Bazaar)

Lily Allen has revealed she’s ‘not in a great place mentally,’ and isn’t eating at the moment.

On her podcast Miss Me? with her best friend Miquita Oliver, Lily, 39, opened up about her ‘tough’ time over the last few months in an episode about therapy.

Saying she is in therapy at the moment, Lily explained: ‘I’ve been going through a tough time over the last few months and my eating has become a real issue.

‘My therapist and I talk about it and she says, “How long has this been going on?” And I said, “Well, about three years really.” And she’s like, “OK, why haven’t you mentioned it before?”

‘And it’s not because I’m lying about it. It’s just because it hasn’t seemed at the top of the list of important things that I need to talk about, but obviously it is.’

The star candidly opened up about her struggles with eating and mental health on her podcast with friend Miquita Oliver (Picture: Shane Anthony Sinclair/Getty Images for Mission 44)

Lily added: ‘I’m not really very good at talking about the bigger picture. I wonder if that’s something to do with my ADHD as well, that I don’t link a lot of things.

For Lily, her body and brain are ‘two very separate things’ she said, adding: ‘I know a lot of people feel those two things are very connected to each other, but for me it’s very different.

‘I spend a lot of time in my head, and not a lot of time thinking about my body,’ she explained.

The star rose to fame in 2006 with Smile her first big hit (Picture: Mark Metcalfe/Getty Images)

‘I’m really not in a great place mentally at the moment, and I’m not eating. But I’m not hungry. I obviously am hungry, but my body and brain are so disconnected from each other that my body… the messages of hunger are not going from my body to my brain. 

‘I’m not avoiding food, I’m just not thinking about it because I’m so in my head. My body’s, like, a few steps behind me.’

The Smile hitmaker lives in New York with husband David Harbour, 49, and children Ethel Mary, 13, and Marnie Rose, 11.

Lily recently explained, also on her podcast, how joining Only Fans to sell pictures of her feet is an ’empowering’ side hustle for her – and actually makes her more money than the music industry, despite her fame and success.

‘I’m finding this actually quite empowering. Having been very sexualized from a very early age, and literally everybody else in the process profiting from that sexualization, it’s actually really fun to be like, in power and in control of something that I find so silly,’ she revealed.

Lily is married to Stranger Things star David Harbour, and the pair live in New York together with her kids (Picture: Michael Simon/GC Images)

However, she has drawn a hard line at feet, refusing to do anything more extreme than ‘toe-spreading.’

‘Believe me, these guys are all up in my DMs telling me they want bespoke content and asking me for all kinds of crazy stuff and I take such pleasure in just saying, only feet, don’t even go there – this is a foot only page,’ she said.

When fans hit out at her decision on social media, Lily advised them not to ‘hate the player, but hate the game’.

‘Imagine being one of the biggest pop stars/musicians in Europe and then being reduced to this,’ said X user New_Dimez in response to a series of snaps from her page.

Lily hit back: ‘Imagine being an artist and having nearly 8 million monthly listeners on spotify but earning more money from having 1000 people subscribe to pictures of your feet.’

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