Lily Allen to take podcast break over mental health

Lily Allen has said she is taking a interruption from her podcast for "a fewer weeks" due to the fact that her intelligence wellness is "spiralling" and she is not "in a bully place".

Speaking connected the latest occurrence of Miss Me?, the BBC Sounds amusement she hosts with Miquita Oliver, the popular star-turned-actor said she had been going done a "tough period" including panic attacks.

It comes amid reports of a divided from her husband, Stranger Things prima David Harbour.

Allen said she was presently "unable to ore connected thing but the symptom I'm going through".

"I'm uncovering it hard to beryllium funny successful anything. I'm truly not successful a bully place," she said connected Thursday's episode.

"I cognize I've been talking astir it for months, but I've been spiralling and spiralling and spiralling, and it's got retired of control. I've tried.

"I came to the Miss Me? Christmas luncheon and had a panic onslaught and had to spell home," the 39-year-old added. "And I went to spot thing astatine the theatre the different nighttime with my friends... and I had to permission astatine half-time.

"I conscionable can't ore connected thing but the symptom that I'm going through. And It's truly hard."

The singer, who present lives successful the US, went connected to accidental she was "going distant adjacent week", adding: "You're not going to perceive maine for a fewer weeks, listeners."

But contempt "rumours" that she was going into cause rehab, she said that was not the lawsuit and she had not relapsed.

She didn't accidental wherever she's going, but said she is "not allowed my phone".

"They're not doing america immoderate good," she said. "They're surely not doing maine immoderate bully astatine the moment. I truly don't similar my phone."

Podcast co-host Oliver told listeners she would "drive this ship" successful Allen's lack and "wait for the skipper to return".

The show, which launched past year, sees puerility friends Allen erstwhile and erstwhile Popworld big Oliver indulge successful doubly play "transatlantic catch-ups, discussing the highs and lows of their lives and the biggest taste moments of the week".

Allen made her West End theatre debut successful 2:22 - A Ghost Story successful 2021, and is owed to instrumentality to the signifier successful Hedda, a caller mentation of Henrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabler, astatine Bath Theatre Royal's Ustinov Studio successful July.

She is besides reportedly filming a surface adaptation of Virginia Woolf's comic caller Night and Day.

The Brit Award victor mentioned successful a erstwhile occurrence that she was hoping to spell backmost into the workplace to grounds much euphony aboriginal this year.