She was renowned for a her wild weekends at Glastonbury before she found sobriety.
And now Lily Allen says that she is so hopeful that her two daughters will enjoy the festival that she would let them bunk off school to go.
Speaking on her podcast, Miss Me?, the Smile singer said: ‘If my kids ran away from school to go to Glastonbury, I don’t think I would say s***. It’s a rite of passage, like being naughty.
‘To me it’s not misbehaving, it’s doing what any teenager would do.’
Recalling her experiences of leaving her public school Bedales to join her dad, the actor Keith Allen, at the festival, Ms Allen – mum to Ethel, 13 and Marnie, 11 – said: ‘I think I had got my dad to ask if I could leave school early, and they said no she can’t and so I just ran away.
Ms Allen – mum to Ethel (right), 13 and Marnie (left), 11 – said: ‘If my kids ran away from school to go to Glastonbury, I don’t think I would say s***. It’s a rite of passage, like being naughty’. Pictured in October 2022 at the season 4 Stranger Things premiere in New York
Allen recalled her experiences of leaving her public school Bedales to join the festival when she was young. Pictured performing at the festival in 2014
Allen pictured attending the Glastonbury Festival, Somerset, on June 27, 2014
‘I remember getting to Glastonbury and spending three days there.
‘My dad knew that I was coming, leaving school on the Saturday afternoon and coming down, so we left the site and came back in again, pretending that we hadn’t been there for three days.’
Meanwhile Ms Allen, 38, revealed that being forced to sell her Cotswolds mansion in 2016 to pay off a hefty tax bill was ‘soul-destroying’ – and she checks the housing market ‘every day’ to see if it has gone back on sale.
She sold her £4.2million ‘house of dreams’ after she was sued for an ‘extremely large amount of money’ by a former tour manager.
Ms Allen admitted she often checks to see if the property has ‘come back on sale’ and said she’d ‘love to have that house back’.
She said: ‘I had a beautiful house, which was my house of dreams in the countryside.
‘I did it up so nice, and it was like my life project, I was very proud of it, it was the place where I was going to raise my children.’
Lily Allen has revealed that being forced to sell her Cotswolds mansion to pay off a hefty tax bill was ‘soul-destroying’
The singer admitted she often checks to see if the property has ‘come back on sale’ and said she’d ‘love to have that house back’ (pictured in a clip from her Miss Me? podcast)
Lily, who married Stranger Things star David Harbour in 2020, now lives in a luxurious Brooklyn townhouse
Allen pictured performing on stage at Glastonbury in June 2014
Allen walks through the muddy fields at the Glastonbury Festival at Worthy Farm in 2014
Allen performed at Glastonbury in 2014 following the release of her third album Sheezus
‘I was always good with my tax, I’m a big firm believer in paying tax and I think people in a higher earning bracket should absolutely pay as much tax as they possibly can.
‘And that has made me unpopular in certain political circles, having this view, and being quite public about it.’
She continued: ‘But anyway, I have always put money aside to pay for my tax.
‘What happened was, I got sued by somebody, for an extremely large amount of money, which I hadn’t accounted for.
‘I had to pay him off, with the money I had put aside for my tax.
‘And then when my tax bill came along, I tried to work out a deal with HMRC in which I can pay them back in instalments.
‘Which I would have been able to do, but they said no so, I had to put my house on the market.’
