At 36, Lily Allen has returned to the scene. Literally. The singer, who released her latest album, entitled No Shame, in 2018, is now taking the charts in London's West End with the
thriller
2:22 A Ghost Story
, in which for the next ten weeks she will play Jenny, in her first foray into the theater. A professional debut that symbolizes the rebirth of the artist, after years fueling controversy. At 36, Allen once again positioned himself as an icon, acting as the image of luxury brands such as Fendi on social networks. And she does it, in addition, sober and away from a past full of addictions since adolescence, as shown in her Instagram profile, where she has gone from sharing snapshots at parties to images of morning walks, in sports clothes and family life.
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"I am riding a wave of constant emotion and terror," the singer told BBC News about her premiere on stage.
Although it is a novelty for her, the world of acting is not alien to her, since Allen's father, Keith Allen, is a television and film actor who has participated in productions such as
The Others
by Alejandro Amenábar.
Just a few days ago, the artist shared four images on her Instagram account with the Fendi First bag from the new Kim Jones collection for Fendi -whose price is around 2,000 euros-, in one of her new collaborations with luxury brands among the there is also Dior who, according to the Daily Mail newspaper, paid the singer a "five-figure" payment for publishing a producer on their profiles.
A pioneer of the My Space platform - her Instagram username is, in fact, Queen of My Space - the British has more than one and a half million followers on the social network owned by Facebook.
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At the end of July, the British singer celebrated two years away from the consumption of alcohol and drugs with a publication on Instagram in which she assured that cleaning herself is "the best thing" she has done in her life. She herself had previously admitted her addictions. In 2019, in an interview in
The Guardian
on the occasion of the launch of his memoir,
My Thoughts Exactly, he
assured
being surprised that she was not "dead", and even stated that she had paid for the services of prostitutes
.
“I chose sex over heroin. I didn't realize it at the time, but addictions can manifest themselves in all ways. This helped me plug up other things like pain or fear. There are many structural things that can come to you when you are up ”, he confessed then, blaming his desire to leave that previous life behind on the upbringing. "Having children triggered responsibilities," he said. Allen has two daughters in common with her first husband, Sam Cooper, Ethel Mary and Marnie Rose, ages 11 and 8, after having two miscarriages.
The current image of Allen is far from that of that artist who in 2016 was photographed drinking from the nose of a bottle of whiskey at the Notthing Hill carnival - and carried on the shoulder of a friend completely - or embodied the third in discord in the marriage between Liam Gallagher of Oasis and Nicole Appleton of All Saints. Although in Allen's language centered does not mean unnoticed. Proof of this was her unusual wedding with her second and still husband, actor David Harbor, known for his role as Jim Hooper on the Netflix series
Stranger Things
. The surprise link was held in September 2020, in the style of some American comedies, at the Graceland Chapel in Las Vegas, including an Elvis impersonator, with a Dior wedding dress and a family celebration at a burger joint.
This has not been his first break either. In 2009, after the success of her second album
It's Not Me, It's You
, the singer announced a see you later, a break with the producer EMI included, which finally lasted three years, during which time she married for the first time, had her friends. two daughters and opened a clothing store with her sister that closed years later. But then, even his return was also charged with controversy with the publication of a song,
Hard Out Here
, in which he criticized sexism in the music industry and statements. “Of course I'd rather look like Kate Moss than myself. I would rather not feel that way and I think the reason we feel that way is because of the imagery we constantly consume. It's still expected of women, in a strange way, a kind of… sit there and look pretty and don't talk, ”she said a couple of months after posting a new job to
Elle
magazine
.