Lily Allen admitted she ‘can’t remember’ how many abortions she has had as she opened up about birth control in a chat with best friend Miquita Oliver.
Speaking on the pair’s podcast, Miss Me?, the singer, 40, described her reproductive system as a ‘complete disaster area’, confessing she would ‘get pregnant all the time’.
While on the topic of contraception, Lily mused: ‘I just remember I have an IUD [contraceptive coil] now.
‘I think I’m on my third maybe fourth and I just remember before that it was a complete disaster area. Yeah I’d get pregnant all the time all the time.’
As Miquita, 41, confessed she didn’t know if Lily had ever terminated a pregnancy, Lily 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’.
Giggling, she continued: ‘I can’t remember. I think maybe like, I want to say four or five.’
Lily Allen admitted she ‘can’t remember’ how many abortions she has had as she opened up about birth control in a chat with best friend Miquita Oliver
Lily – shares daughters, Ethel, 13, and Marnie, 11, with her ex-husband Sam Cooper – and revealed she thinks she’s had four or five abortions in the past (pictured in 2022)
Miquita 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 judgment. We’ve had about the same amount of abortions.’
Lily then recalled one of her experiences with an ex, musing: ‘I remember once getting pregnant and the man paying for my abortion, and me thinking it was so romantic!’
Miquita interjected: ‘I actually think that is romantic! Do you not think that’s romantic?’ to which Lily responded: ‘Am I an idiot? What? Getting rid of the problem?’
The former Popworld host then argued: ‘No but if you’re both like “let’s not do this. I don’t want it no neither do I, I don’t have any money well I can sort that out…”‘
Yet Lily insisted she wasn’t on board, continuing: ‘No I don’t think it’s generous or romantic. Think about that investment, like that’s how much is it 500 quid? Kids are a lot more expensive.’
She then revealed that she didn’t hear from him again after terminating the pregnancy but reasoned: ‘I mean fair tbh. I was a f***ing crazy b***h – still am!’
Miquita then reflected on her first abortion, confessing: ‘I was very excited! I felt like I was like a woman.’
Revealing she bumped into several people from school at the local contraceptive clinic, she went on: ‘I think as a young woman starting your contraceptive journey I was quite excited. It meant that I was having sex.’
Lily 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’
Miquita 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 judgment’
The TV presenter – who does not have any children – later added that she used to feel ’embarrassed’ to say that she’d had more than one abortion.
‘I felt really embarrassed to even say that I had more than one abortion, why the f**k should I be ashamed? I have had a few,’ she shared.
Lily – who shares daughters, Ethel, 13, and Marnie, 11, with her ex-husband Sam Cooper – went on to express her annoyance at having to justify terminating a pregnancy.
She explained: ‘It actually irritates me, and I’ve said it before on the record. I’ve seen memes going around sometimes, on Instagram from pro-abortion accounts or whatever, whenever this conversation comes up, and suddenly you start seeing people posting things about extraordinary reasons for having an abortion.
‘Like: “My aunt had a kid that had this disability,” or whatever, “if she went full term it was going to kill her, so we have to.” It’s like, shut up!
‘Just: “I don’t want a f***ing baby right now.” Literally: “Don’t want a baby” is enough reason.’
She previously shared her views on a woman’s right to choice in the wake of the US Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v Wade in 2022.
Lily appeared on stage during Olivia Rodrigo’s Glastonbury performance to sing her 2009 hit F**k You as they discussed the ruling.
In 2022 Lily appeared on stage during Olivia Rodrigo’s Glastonbury performance to sing Lily’s 2009 hit F**k You in response to the US Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v Wade
After her performance, Lily took to Instagram to reveal she had an abortion and called on women to stop feeling they needed to ‘justify’ their decisions to terminate pregnancy
American singer Olivia took to The Other Stage at Worthy Farm where she said she was ‘devastated and terrified’ by the ruling which ended the constitutional right to abortion in the US, meaning individual states could decide whether abortion can be made illegal.
She said: ‘I’m devastated and terrified [by the ruling] and so many women and girls are going to die because of this and I wanted to dedicate this next song to the five members of the Supreme Court who showed us at the end of the day they truly don’t give a s*** about freedom.’
After her words prompted huge applause from the audience, Olivia went on to address the Supreme Court justices individually, saying: ‘This song goes out to the justices Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, Amy Coney Barrett, and Brett Kavanaugh.’
Lily then gave the middle finger as she stood on stage, before saying: ‘We hate you guys!’ as the pair launched into the expletive-filled song.
After her performance, Lily took to Instagram to reveal she had an abortion in the past and called on women to stop feeling as though they needed to ‘justify’ their decisions to terminate a pregnancy.
She wrote: ‘I wish people would stop posting examples of exceptional reasons for having abortions.
‘Most people I know, myself included, just didn’t want to have a f***ing baby and that is reason enough. We don’t have to justify it.
‘It shouldn’t have to be said, and I think all these examples just play into the hands of the baddies.’
In 2008 Lily suffered a miscarriage with then partner Ed Simmons from the Chemical Brothers (pictured in 2008)
In 2008, Lily suffered a miscarriage with then partner Ed Simmons from the Chemical Brothers.
Two years later Lily tried for a baby with then husband Sam but lost her baby at six months pregnant and was left fighting for her life due to blood poisoning.
Speaking about the ordeal she said: ‘I nearly died. But I was so numb and I didn’t care. I’d just lost my baby and that is how numb I was.’
Lily who was rushed to hospital with septicemia admitted: ‘It’s something that I still haven’t dealt with. I will never get over it. I have dealt with it, you know as being at one with it. But it’s not something you get over.
‘I held my child and it was really horrific and painful – one of the hardest things that can happen to a person.’
Following her operation Lily was able to physically recover and went on to have her two daughters.
Last month, British MPs voted in favour of measures to decriminalise women terminating their own pregnancies in the biggest change to the law on reproductive rights for half a century.
Women will no longer face prosecution for aborting their own baby for any reason and at any stage up to birth under the proposed legislation, which was backed by 379 votes to 137.
It will alter the 1861 Offences Against the Person Act – which outlawed abortion – meaning it would no longer apply to women aborting their own babies.
Lily tried for a baby with ex husband Sam Cooper in 2010 but lost her baby at six months pregnant and was left fighting for her life due to blood poisoning (pictured in 2009)
MPs and pro-choice activists welcomed the abortion vote and said it will finally put an end to the prosecution of vulnerable women for ending their own pregnancies.
Under the amendment, women will no longer be prosecuted for an abortion when it relates to their own pregnancy, even if they abort their own baby without medical approval or after the current 24-week legal limit.
However it maintains criminal punishments for doctors who carry out abortions beyond the legal limit and abusive partners who end a woman’s pregnancy without her consent.
For help and support with pregnancy options in the UK please call the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS) on 03457 30 40 30.
If you are in the US please call Planned Parenthood on 1-800-230-PLAN.
