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She sings about being a West End Girl in her latest album of that name.
And now Lily Allen admits she’s undergoing therapy for ‘shopping like an insane person’ to celebrate its success.
The 40-year-old has splashed the cash ‘convinced she is a billionaire’, but is now receiving treatment for her spending addiction.
Returning to her Miss Me? podcast for a Christmas special with co-host and best friend Miquita Oliver, Ms Allen revealed all the lavish items she has purchased – including a £120,000 Porsche and a £16,500 Hermes bag.
‘I’m just playing with my huge diamond and emerald ring, I bought myself a little present but it’s not that little,’ she said.
‘You’ve got to treat yourself and mark the moment. I’m convinced I’m a billionaire. Handbags have been bought, jewels and a car has been bought.’
Lily Allen has revealed she’s undergoing therapy for ‘shopping like an insane person’ to celebrate her new album’s success, including spending £16,500 on a Hermes handbag
Returning to her Miss Me? podcast for a Christmas special, Ms Allen revealed all the lavish items she has purchased – including a £120,000 Porsche (pictured)
The singer told how she has been in eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing (EMDR) therapy for the past four months due to her spending habits.
According to the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, EMDR helps people to recover from past experiences that are affecting their mental health and wellbeing.
Using side to side eye movements combined with talk therapy, it is designed to help process negative images, emotions, beliefs and body sensations associated with traumatic memories that appear stuck and can contribute to a range of issues.
Describing it as ‘life changing’, Ms Allen said: ‘You usually start by deciding an area, like a traumatic experience you want to focus on, and visualise the experience and identify the feelings that are coming up in your body and mind, and the pain levels go down.
‘If you’re trying to stop a negative behaviour like spending or drug taking, you do the opposite and think of the good feeling and try and dissociate that feeling from your self-worth.’
She added: ‘In my case a handbag, you separate it by saying this handbag is making me a better person. It is really interesting… I’m not clear on the science but it is working for me.’
Ms Allen, the daughter of actor Keith Allen, has had a tough year since her ‘devastating’ split from Stranger Things actor husband David Harbour, 50, at the end of 2024.
She revealed in February that she has had breast enhancement surgery, stating she did it for herself in order to ‘glow up’.
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Lily also spoke about the large diamond and emerald ring she’d splashed out on, after the huge success of her new album West End Girl
Her latest album West End Girl, which was released in October to rave reviews, details her recovery from her marriage break-up.
And after weeks of speculation that she is in a relationship with writer Jonah Freud, 28, the pair were spotted kissing at a Christmas party in London last week.
Ms Allen was seen cosying up to Freud, son of entrepreneur Matthew Freud and ex-wife Caroline Hutton, at Stringfellows nightclub, before they shared a kiss.
