Lily Allen is getting candid.
While sharing insight into her current go-to form of contraceptive the “Smile” singer detailed her experiences with unplanned pregnancies and how she chose to end them.
“I have an IUD now,” Lily said on the July 1 episode of her Miss Me? Podcast. “I think I’m on my third or fourth and I just remember before that it was a disaster area. I would get pregnant all the time.”
“Abortions, I’ve had a few but then again,” she continued, while playfully singing. “I can’t remember exactly how many. I can’t remember, yeah.”
Lily—who shares daughters Ethel, 13, and Marnie, 11, with ex-husband Sam Cooper—added, “I think maybe like five—Four or five.”
As Lily’s cohost Miquita Oliver detailed her similar experiences with abortions, the pop star went on to denote a specific instance that she now looks back on in a different light.
“I remember once getting pregnant and the man paying for my abortion and me thinking it was so romantic,” Lily recalled. “I don’t think it generous or romantic think about how long that investment.”
“Tell you how romantic it was,” the 40-year-old added. “I don’t think he texted me after. Fair TBH I was a crazy b---h. Still am.”
Over the years Lily has been open with fans about aspects her personal life, sharing insight into the joy and pain she has experienced. This includes detailing the painful late-term pregnancy loss of her and Sam’s first child in 2010, during which she ended up being hospitalized for septicemia.
“The stitch broke and I went into full-blown labor and the baby was really, really small,” Lily shared in 2018 during an interview on BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour. “And as I was delivering him, the doctors said, ‘There was a pulse and now there no longer is.’ The cord was wrapped around his neck and he was just too small.”
Noting that she “quickly” got pregnant with her daughter Ethel after the loss of her son George, Lily explained how challenging motherhood was in the early days of her daughter’s life—and her subsequent pregnancy with her youngest—following the trauma.
“She actually was very ill for the first eight months of her life, and three months after she was born, I then found out that I was pregnant with Marnie,” Lily said. “So babies became my focus in that period of time.”