Lily Allen has said she has been ‘shopping like an insane person’ to celebrate the success of her new album, West End Girl.
The singer, 40, admitted she has splashed the cash ‘convinced she is a billionaire’ but is now in therapy for her spending addiction.
Returning to her Miss Me? podcast for a Christmas special with co-host and best friend Maquita Oliver, Lily revealed all the lavish items she has purchased including an £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 explained.
‘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 explained that she is has now been in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing therapy for the last four months due to her spending habits.
Lily Allen has said she has been ‘shopping like an insane person’ to celebrate the success of her new album, West End Girl
The singer, 40, admitted she has splashed the cash ‘convinced she is a billionaire’ but is now in therapy for her spending addiction
She explained: ‘I start doing EMDR therapy four months ago and its been life changing. EMDR therapy is a special type of therapy it stimulates the brain and creates new pathways to certain behaviours or traumatic experiences.
‘This is what is working for me currently, I’m not a doctor though.
‘You usual 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 your 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.
‘In my case a handbag, you separate it by saying this handbag is making me a better person. It is really interesting and I’m not clear on the science but it is working for me.’
It comes after Lily revealed the reason she decided to get a boob job just weeks after leaving a trauma centre – as she shares the ‘devastating’ impact of her divorce from David Harbour.
The Madeline singer has had a tough year since her split from the Stranger Things star at the end of 2024 and revealed in February she had gone under the knife.
She revealed the surgery on her podcast, stating she did it for herself in order to ‘glow up’.
Returning to her Miss Me? podcast with co-host Maquita Oliver, Lily revealed all the lavish items she has purchased including an £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. I’m convinced I’m a billionaire. Handbags have been bought, jewels and a car’
But now she has told The Observer that she really did it because she had lost a lot of weight after her split from David and was concerned that when the weight returned it would ‘go to her legs’.
She said: ‘Because I’ve always been really small up top, I was worried about becoming really bottom-heavy. And so I felt like…’
‘This is how I talk to myself! I felt like if I got boobs, it would make me feel better about gaining weight. So that was my reasoning.’
She had the plastic surgery right after spending two weeks in a trauma centre in Nashville due to the impact of the split which she has now described as ‘f***ing excruciatingly painful’ as well as ‘really helpful’.
In the interview she described visiting Kris Jenner’s plastic surgeon in Manhattan to find ‘her authentic self’ with the surgery – just days after spending three weeks in the trauma centre also trying to find her ‘authentic self’.
Lily told how she doesn’t remember much from that period of time but described how she was given Percocet by two of the nurses looking after her following the operation despite being sober.
The star – who has two daughters from a previous relationship – went on to discuss the divorce itself – calling it ‘devastating’ and something that kept her up at night, as well as ‘costing a huge amount of money’.
Saying she felt ‘utterly heartbroken’ in the aftermath of the split she stopped being able to sleep and eat.
She said: ‘I’d sit down at the breakfast table and try and get the girls to have their breakfast before school. And they’d go, ‘Mummy, your arms look so thin.’
Her new album West End Girl details her recovery from the breakup and alludes to numerous infidelities from David.
Lily explained that she is has now been in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing therapy for the last four months due to her spending habits
It comes after last week Lily proved her career is going better than ever thanks to the release of her tell-all album West End Girl as she stepped out of a new £120,000 Porsche.
The singer’s latest record, which details the breakdown of her marriage to David, has won rave reviews and she is due to embark on an arena tour in 2026.
The hitmaker also proved she has expensive taste when it comes to fashion as she carried a £16,500 Hermes bag through the streets of east London.
Lily’s album recounts in painfully raw detail the collapse of her four-year marriage to David.
At its emotional core sits Madeline, a blistering track devoted entirely to the woman Lily believes her husband was involved with during their marriage.
In it, Lily sings of confronting the woman directly by text, asking: ‘How long has it been going on? Is it just sex or is there emotion?’
The lyrics sparked a frenzied online hunt among Lily’s millions of fans desperate to identify ‘Madeline’ – or, as the singer snarled in lyric form, ‘Who the f*** is Madeline?’
Despite Lily claiming the name was a pseudonym, the Mail on Sunday exclusively revealed Madeline to be costume designer Natalie Tippett.
It is understood that Natalie met 50-year-old David, who is 16 years her senior, while filming the Netflix movie We Have A Ghost in 2021, on location in New Orleans.
David was the movie’s leading man, while Natalie worked in the costume department. Their affair reportedly began shortly after shooting started.
But even after filming ended, he reportedly flew Natalie to his home in Atlanta, Georgia, as the affair continued behind Lily’s back.
Natalie broke her silence on the cheating accusations in a series of Instagram posts recently.
The Madeline singer has had a tough year since her divorce from Stranger Things star David Harbour at the end of 2024
She denied claims of a long-term affair and said she felt ‘extremely violated’ by the way she has been portrayed by Lily.
David married Lily, who has two daughters, Ethel, 13, and 12-year-old Marnie from her previous marriage to Sam Cooper, in Las Vegas the year before.
The couple, who had met on the celebrity dating app Raya, had disabled their profiles following a whirlwind romance.
But Lily decided to re-join the app to check on her husband’s activity and discovered he had a secret profile which had been active for around a month.
A source said at the time: ‘Lily was looking for women that were on Raya and cross-referencing them with women David follows on Instagram to try to figure out who he was seeing.’
Since the split, Lily has moved back to London and has bought an ex-council flat in a building near where she grew up.
She said: ‘I have wanted to live in this building since I was a baby, it’s been a dream of mine forever and finally a flat became available in here and I was in a position to buy it and I did.’
