Lily Allen to take mental health podcast break

Lily Allen has said she is taking a break from her podcast for “a few weeks” because her mental health is “deteriorating” and she is not in a “good place”.

Speaking on the latest episode of Do you miss me?On the BBC Sounds show she hosts with Miquita Oliver, the pop star turned actor said she was going through a “tough time”, including panic attacks.

This comes amid reports of her split from her husband, Stranger Things star David Harbour.

Allen said she is currently “unable to concentrate on anything other than the pain I’m going through”.

He added, “I’m having a hard time getting interested in anything. I’m really not in a good place.” Thursday’s episode.

“I know I’ve been talking about it for months, but I just keep growing and growing and growing, and it’s gotten out of control. I’ve tried.

“I came to the Miss Me? Christmas lunch and I had a panic attack and had to go home,” the 39-year-old said. “And I went to see something at the theater with my friends the other night… and I had to leave at half-time.

“I can’t focus on anything except the pain I’m going through. And that’s really hard.”

The singer, who now lives in the US, said she was “going away next week”, adding: “Listeners, you won’t be hearing from me for a few weeks.”

But despite “rumors” that she was going to drug rehab, she said that’s not the case and that nothing like that has ever happened to her again.

She did not say where she was going, but said she was “not allowed to take my phone”.

“That’s one thing I’m really excited about where I’m going in the next few weeks, is that I’m not allowed to have my phone,” said the artist, who has criticized the effects of social media.

Allen also said that her two daughters – whom she lives with with her ex-husband Sam Cooper and recently went on safari with her – have been a great help recently.

“It’s really hard – they’re always there and you have to be there for them,” he said.

“And that’s OK. When things are going well and well in life and you’re coping, it’s really nice to have kids around – being around them is a joy, really the highlight of one’s life.” One of the main sources of happiness.

“But when things aren’t going so well and life is hard – as it is for many people for all kinds of reasons – it’s really hard to keep things together.”

Co-host Oliver told listeners that she would “steer this ship” in Allen’s absence and “will wait for the captain to return”.

The BBC Sounds podcast, which launched last year, sees childhood friend Alan and former Popworld host Oliver joining forces for a twice-weekly “transatlantic catch-up”, discussing the highs and lows of their lives and the highs and lows of the week. The biggest cultural moments are discussed.

Allen made her West End theater debut in 2021 in 2:22 – A Ghost Story, and is due to return to the stage in Hedda, a new version of Henrik Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler, at the Ustinov Studio at Bath Theater Royal in July.

She is also reportedly filming a screen adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s comic novel Knight and Day.

The Brit Award winner mentioned in a previous episode that she was hoping to get back into the studio to record more music later this year.