In a candid new interview with The Guardian, Lily Allen stated she was assaulted by an unnamed file government at a celebration in Los Angeles.
Allen addresses the incident in her forthcoming memoir, My Thoughts Exactly, which might be launched Sept. 20 within the U.Okay. and Dec. 20 within the United States. The singer instructed The Guardian she wished to call the person who assaulted her within the e book, however in the end her writer suggested in opposition to doing so for authorized causes.
After getting “smashed” on the occasion, Allen says the person let her into his resort room to sleep it off, however then, “I woke up at 5 a.m. because I could feel someone next to me pressing their naked body against my back. I was naked, too… I moved away as quickly as possible and jumped out of the bed, full of alarm… I found my clothes quickly… and ran out of his room and into my own.”
Allen stated she continued working with the person after the assault as a result of he had extra energy than she did and he or she feared being labeled “a difficult woman.” “If things went down, I told myself, he’d win,” she stated. Upon returning to London, the singer sought authorized counsel and signed an affidavit, as she “wished it on file that I’d been sexually abused by somebody I labored with.”
Later, she turned down a BBC Radio 1 efficiency as a result of she knew one of many government’s different artists can be there and didn’t need to run into him. As a end result, Allen believes, she was “punished by Radio 1, with no airplay for my subsequent single, ‘Trigger Bang’ — I simply couldn’t inform them why I couldn’t take the slot.”
Read the whole interview here.
