SHE has confessed to having a Mile High romp with a married Liam Gallagher, sleeping with high-class female escorts, seeing her father take cocaine and headbutting Orlando Bloom at a Hollywood party.
But Lily Allen’s latest revelation is her most explosive, and to me, repulsive, yet.
The Smile hit maker giggled away as she admitted she’s had five abortions. Yes - five. That number isn’t a typo.
And yet while her outburst was crass it’s not Lily who is to blame for this wildly feckless attitude.
Triggered is a word I loathe. But I have zero doubt that her blase brag will have been a knife in the heart to thousands of ‘Childless Not By Choice’ (CNBC) women - myself included.
We're living in a world in which women like mother-of-two Allen - whose previous relationships include Chemical Brothers DJ Ed Simons, art dealer Jay Jopling and Stranger Things actor David Harbour - assume it’s fine to boast - on a BBC podcast no less - about having multiple abortions, “yeah I’d get pregnant all the time”.
Listen, my motto in life is you do you.
But we all have a dark side – psychiatrist Carl Jung called it the ‘shadow’ – that is honestly best left in the dark.
Why oh why would an emotionally intelligent woman ever assume that such an abhorrent admission would ever be okay?
When the likes of the Suffragettes were dying to give us the votes, when Gloria Steinem galvanised the feminist movement in the late 1960s was it really so a pop star could brainlessly joke about her irresponsible lifestyle?
Women in my CNBC tribe - and there are more of us than you think - have spent years, not to mention thousands of pounds trying to end up with a baby. When we call time on our dream of motherhood, grief is a lifelong companion.
To dig the knife in further, Lily’s ‘Miss Me’ co-host Miquita Oliver also said she’s undergone five terminations, too.
Recalling her first abortion, Oliver said: “I was very excited! I felt like I was like a woman.”
When Oliver, 41, confessed she didn't know if Allen had ever terminated a pregnancy, she began singing to the tune of Frank Sinatra's My Way: “Abortions I've had a few... but then again... I can't remember exactly how many”.
She continued: “I can't remember. I think maybe like, I want to say four or five.”
Oliver, who doesn’t have children, responded: “I've had about five too! Lily I've never… I'm so happy I can say that and you can say it and no one came to shoot us down, no judgement. We've had about the same amount of abortions.”
I’m sorry, is this where we’re at in 2025?
Part of me feels desperately sorry for the pair of them. That neither of them can recognise that this isn’t something cool to riff and praise each other on.
But the other part of me wants to wring their bloody necks for such an utterly irresponsible approach to conception and pregnancy.
Look, we don’t live in the Victorian era. Sleep with whoever the heck you want, whenever the heck you want.
Lily has admitted her sense of desire fluctuates - “I go through horny and unhorny phases” - but contraception is available everywhere.
Also, anyone with a brain knows how to keep track of their menstrual cycle.
To be clear, I am not against abortion. I am pro-choice and firmly believe a woman’s body is her own.
I’ve been on the planet long enough to accompany girlfriends through such procedures. One friend terminated at eight weeks because she didn’t want the ‘inevitable gossiping’ (her words) she thought she’d get walking down the aisle with a baby bump – no judgement from me.
Another terminated her pregnancy on the advice of her doctors because the foetus was malformed. I had so much compassion for her.
Then there are the dozens of friends who have agonised and wept over the decision because they weren’t in the right relationship or it was a one-night stand. All reasons I support.
But I’m also 54 and, over the decades, I have witnessed the emotional and psychological fallout when women have terminated a pregnancy. They remember the due date for years to come. So many wonder what their child would have looked like.
We should never ever normalise abortion or trivialise this act. It disgusts me that these women are trying to frame multiple abortions in society as a lifestyle choice, something so casual and everyday that it’s akin to popping out for a coffee.
An abortion is not a rite of passage. It is often a medical procedure that comes with health risks, too.
And let’s not forget our current political climate. They are handing the bonkers, yet growing, alt-right political movement a gift with their selfishly brazen attitude towards potential life.
And boy are they rubbing such a revelation into the faces of women like me who weren’t able to have children.
Look, I'm no angel. Most women I know have had sex and not used protection - myself included - it happens! But that’s what the morning after pill is for. I used it once at 17, after that I went on the pill. That’s what grown-ups do.
And throughout my 20s and 30s I continued to use the pill. Yes, I know it isn’t a right fit for many women. Thankfully there are a dazzling array of other contraceptive options which shouldn’t include an abortion.
When I tried to become a mum I was stable, settled and married in my late 30s. After trying for two years, we then turned to the fertility industry. Two attempts at IVF didn’t work. We were going to try a third time, but my husband’s son died from skin cancer. The devastation put paid to any more attempts.
So yes, I am writing this from the pain of that experience. Even though I closed the door on motherhood 11 years ago - the grief never entirely leaves you.
I feel nothing but pity for both women brought up to assume that abortions are an acceptable lifestyle choice. Their mothers must be looking in the mirror and wondering where they went wrong.
Because in this instance I actually blame their parents. We can all imagine how a conversation about birds and the bees would have gone with hell raiser and feckless father Keith Allen. And Oliver seems like a together woman – but honestly this is an epic failure on her part.
Who knows what Lily Allen’s daughters are thinking about their mother now. Of course they’ll defend her. But that’s not to say that school is going to be fun for a while.
Yes I know the pair will honk on about men being responsible too. But that argument has nothing to do with these circs.
If I was living in the UK and paying the license fee I’d be campaigning to get this podcast pulled off air. It has zero merit in a world where such views are so utterly and pointlessly cruel. All it has demonstrated is that two privileged, middle class, nepo baby women don’t give a monkeys how their lifestyle choices and opinions land with others.
I actually don’t wish either women the global slagging they are inevitably going to get. But I’d put a very large bet on them both regretting this conversation in the future. And if they don't? Then they are even shallower and more unevolved than I thought they were.
