Lily Allen slams protection of her rescue canine story after demise threats

Lily Allen is pushing again on studies of her returning a rescue canine after it ate her and her youngsters’s passports, calling protection of her story about it “intentionally distorted.”

The “Smile” singer defined intimately her aspect of issues and known as for folks to cease sending her “actually abhorrent messages together with demise threats” in an announcement she posted on X on Sunday.

Allen started with a quote from her Miss Me? podcast, on which she initially mentioned giving up the adopted pet. “We tried very arduous and for a really very long time,” she mentioned, “however the passports had been the straw that broke the camel’s again.”

She continued in her assertion, “That is the a part of the podcast that the tabloids determined to not quote of their articles about me ‘dumping my pet.’ Folks have been furiously reacting to a intentionally distorted cobbling collectively of quotes designed to make folks offended and in consequence, I’ve acquired some actually abhorrent messages together with demise threats. Among the most disgusting feedback have been throughout my social media channels, and I am actually not stunned as a result of that is precisely what these articles are designed to do.”

Allen mentioned her plans to undertake a Chihuahua combine on Thursday’s episode of the podcast, which led her to recall her debacle with a rescue she adopted through the pandemic.

“She ate all three of our passports, and so they had our visas,” Allen mentioned. “And I can’t inform you how a lot cash it price me to get every part changed as a result of it was in COVID, and so it was simply an absolute logistical nightmare.”

Allen lives within the U.S. along with her husband, actor David Harbour, whereas her daughters’ father, Sam Cooper, lives in England. The youngsters not having their passports meant they could not see their father for months, as a result of, because the singer put it, the “f—ing canine had eaten the passports.”

“We rescued our pet Mary from a shelter in NY and we cherished her very a lot, however she developed fairly extreme separation anxiousness and would act out in all method of the way,” Allen wrote in her assertion. “She could not be left alone for greater than 10 minutes. She had three lengthy walks a day — two by us and one with a neighborhood canine walker and several other different canines. We labored with the shelter that we rescued her from and so they referred us to a behavioral specialist and an expert coach. It was a volunteer from the shelter who would come and dog-sit her after we had been away, and after many months and far deliberation everybody was in settlement that our house wasn’t the most effective match for Mary.”

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Allen went on to say that she’s had rescue canines “fairly constantly all through” her life and had by no means been accused of mistreating an animal, so the previous few days had been “very distressing.” She ended her assertion with a plea for folks to “cease appearing on clickbait articles when you have not accomplished your due diligence,” referencing the current “racially pushed xenophobic riots” within the U.Ok. that she mentioned had been spurred on by “distorted propaganda.”

“It is simply all so poisonous and I do know that we will do higher,” she mentioned.

Learn Allen’s full assertion under.