Perhaps there is an answer for those attempting to join the dots laid out by Lily Allen during her latest podcast interview.
Lily has sparked inevitably wild speculation regarding the identity of a ‘successful and incredibly beautiful’ A-list star who allegedly warned her off their musician boyfriend.
Now 39 and happily married to Stranger Things star David Harbour, Allen was 24-years old when the alleged incident took place during preparations for a charity fundraiser in 2009.
The alleged incident prompted Allen to get her own back at a later awards ceremony, but the singer insists she has since forgiven the unknown celebrity and addressed her publicly to apologise for being ‘particularly petty’.
‘All is forgiven on my part anyway. But she’s probably just finding out. So if you are listening and you recognise yourself in this story, I’m sorry. It was particularly petty.’
Lily Allen has sparked inevitably wild speculation regarding the identity of a ‘successful and incredibly beautiful’ A-list star who allegedly warned her off their musician boyfriend ahead of a duet at a charity show
Lily onstage with Kate Moss’ then-boyfriend Jamie Hince at the Hoping’s Got Talent Fundraising Evening for the Hoping Foundation, held at London’s Café de Paris in 2009
Allen claims she got her own back by requesting the celebrity present her with a ‘prestigious’ award (Pictured: Allen after being presented the GQ Women of the Year Award by Moss in 2009)
Speaking on her Miss Me? podcast, the mother-of-two claims she was confronted by a female celebrity who was a ‘older’ and ‘more successful and famous’ than herself, after being asked to perform at the event with the mystery star’s musician boyfriend.
According to Allen, the unnamed star told her: ‘If you think I’m leaving you alone with my f***ing boyfriend you’ve got another thing coming’, leaving her determined to ‘get her back one day’.
Allen doesn’t name the woman in question, but it could be supermodel Kate Moss.
The British star was in attendance at the Hoping’s Got Talent charity fundraiser, an event arranged by Moss and held at London’s Café de Paris – in 2009.
On the night, Allen helped raise £48,350 for children’s charity The Hoping Foundation after taking to the stage with Moss’ then-boyfriend Jamie Hince, guitarist with rock band The Kills, for a rendition of Dream A Little Dream Of Me.
The X-Factor themed event was also attended by stars including Guy Ritchie, Jemima Khan, Will Young, Tracy Emin and David Walliams as guests raised money for children’s community projects in Palestinian refugee camps.
Moss would eventually marry Hince in 2011 during an intimate ceremony at St Peter’s Church in Gloucestershire, before filing for divorce five years later.
Speaking on Monday, Allen recalled that she had been sent to teetotal Sir Elton John’s house in an attempt to curb her excessive drinking, when the female A-lister had asked for a favour to help raise money for charity.
Allen at the Hoping’s Got Talent charity fundraiser, an event arranged by Moss and held at London’s Café de Paris in 2009
Moss was in attendance at the GQ Men of the Year Awards in 2009, but stormed out after James Nesbitt made a crude joke at her expense
The singer explained that the alleged incident had taken place when she was 24, and that she had been alone at Elton John ‘s house in France with the couple (pictured in September 2009)
She detailed: ‘This was when I was managed by Elton John’s company and I’d been sent to his house in the south of France to like dry out for a couple of weeks.
‘And while I was there I got a phone call from somebody very famous at the time asking me if I could perform at a charity event that they were involved in – she was asking me to sing a song with her boyfriend, who was a musician.
‘I said “I’d love to but it’s next week and I haven’t got any time to rehearse because I’m in the south of France”. She was like “Don’t worry, we’ll come out there and we’ll rehearse with you”.’
She said: ‘They come to the south of France, they arrive, and it’s like late afternoon and she’s like “I think you guys should sing The Sound of Silence”.
‘And I was like, “Ooh, I don’t know about that, I really don’t want to – that’s out of my comfort zone”. And she got the hump.
‘I was like “I think maybe we would be better suited to doing something like Something Stupid”.
‘I said, “Look, I’ll go downstairs with your boyfriend and we’ll practice the song and then we’ll come up and then we’ll sing it for you and see how you feel about it”.
While she refused to name names, she said the mystery star was ‘incredibly beautiful’, a ‘older’ and ‘more successful and famous’ than herself, while the then-boyfriend was a musician
Speaking on her Miss Me? podcast, Allen recalled that she had been sent to Elton’s house in an attempt to curb her excessive drinking, when the female A-lister had asked for a favour to help raise money for charity (pictured with Elton and David Furnish in 2009)
‘And she said, “If you think I’m leaving you alone with my f***ing boyfriend you’ve got another thing coming”.’
Allen said she was left shaken by the incident, but decided to channel her feelings into revenge.
She said: ‘I was on my own in this house and it was the two of them and just me, and she was quite a lot older than me, and a lot more famous and more successful, and I just thought “I’m stranded and you’ve got me snookered”.’
‘And I was like, “I’m banking this feeling and I will remember it, and I will get you back one day”.
‘Her boyfriend was not someone I found remotely attractive and she was incredibly beautiful – still is – and so should not have found me remotely a threat. I was definitely in my like puffy strung out phase.’
A few weeks later she was approached by an awards ceremony to be honoured with a prestigious award.
Allen recalled: ‘And then they said, “Is there anybody that you would like to present you with the said award?” I was like “At what point in the proceedings does this award get awarded?” And they were like it’s the penultimate award.
Lily decided to channel her feelings into revenge when she was approached to be honoured with a prestigious award a few weeks later (pictured at 2009 GQ Men Of The Year Awards)
Despite the previous bad blood however, Lily insisted that she has since forgiven the unknown celebrity and addressed her publicly to apologise for being ‘particularly petty’ (pictured last week)
‘I was like, “There is no way this person will be able to hold themselves together for that long and if I can stay sober then she’ll have to present me with the award when I’m looking pristine and brilliant and she looks completely f***ed”.’
She added that her plan was a success, saying: ‘And it f***ing worked. Front cover of the papers the next day were like “So and so was a complete mess”, and then pictures of me with my award.’
The anecdote also points to Moss, who presented Allen with the Women Of The Year gong at the 2009 GQ Awards.
The event did not end well for Moss, who was pictured storming out after actor James Nesbitt made a risqué joke at her expense, with subsequent pictures drawing attention to her blemished complexion.
Reflecting on the incident, Allen said: ‘That person I actually really like them now. It was just a particularly bad phase that both of us were going through at the time.
‘All is forgiven on my part anyway. But she’s probably just finding out. So if you are listening and you recognise yourself in this story, I’m sorry. It was particularly petty.’
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