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

The “Smile” singer defined intimately her aspect of issues and known as for individuals to cease sending her “actually abhorrent messages together with dying threats” in a press release she posted on X on Sunday.

Lily Allen.

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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 stated, “however the passports have 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 individuals offended and in consequence, I’ve acquired some actually abhorrent messages together with dying threats. A number of the most disgusting feedback have been throughout my social media channels, and I am actually not shocked 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 throughout the pandemic.

“She ate all three of our passports, they usually had our visas,” Allen stated. “And I can not let you know how a lot cash it value 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 children 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 beloved her very a lot, however she developed fairly extreme separation nervousness and would act out in all method of how,” 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 an area canine walker and several other different canines. We labored with the shelter that we rescued her from they usually referred us to a behavioral specialist and an expert coach. It was a volunteer from the shelter who would come and dog-sit her once we have been away, and after many months and far deliberation everybody was in settlement that our residence wasn’t one of the best 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 individuals to “cease appearing on clickbait articles when you have not achieved your due diligence,” referencing the latest “racially pushed xenophobic riots” within the U.Okay. that she stated have been spurred on by “distorted propaganda.”

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

Learn Allen’s full assertion under.

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