Lily Allen has revealed her mental health is “spiralling” as she plans time off from her BBC podcast amid reports she has split from her husband David Harbour.
The singer and actress, 39, hosts the Miss Me? podcast with her friend, presenter Miquita Oliver, where they catch up with each other and discuss the biggest cultural moments of the week.
On Thursday’s episode of the BBC Sounds podcast, Allen said she was “really not in a good place," and “unable to concentrate on anything except the pain I’m going through”.
She added: “I’m finding it hard to be interested in anything. I’m really not in a good place.
“I know I’ve been talking about it for months, but I’ve been spiralling and spiralling and spiralling, and it’s got out of control. I’ve tried.
“I came to the Miss Me? Christmas lunch and had a panic attack and had to go home. And I went to see something at the theatre the other night with my friends Carla and Clare and I had to leave at half-time.
“I just can’t concentrate on anything except the pain that I’m going through. And it’s really hard.”
She added that she was “going away” for a few weeks, and dismissed rumours she was going into a rehab facility.
Allen said instead it was somewhere where she is “not allowed my phone”.
Since her marriage to Stranger Things actor Harbour, 49, in 2020, Allen has performed on the West End stage in 2:22 A Ghost Story and appeared in Sky series Dreamland.
The couple were last reported to be living in a townhouse in Brooklyn, New York.
She was also seen in the West End revival of Martin McDonagh’s Olivier Award-winning comedy The Pillowman, in 2023.
Last year Allen won the best entertainment prize for Miss Me? at the British Podcast Awards.
The daughter of Welsh actor Keith Allen, she began her musical career in 1998, and has achieved three UK number one singles and two UK number one albums.
