This article mentions drug use and substance abuse.
Nobody can accuse Lily Allen of holding back when it comes to her BBC podcast Miss Me?, which she hosts alongside her lifelong friend and British TV personality Miquita Oliver.
Since the podcast launched earlier this year, Lily has spoken candidly about everything from her drug use to her "daddy issues" — and on Monday’s episode of the show, she even shared some insight into her sex life with her husband, David Harbour.
Meanwhile, Lily previously admitted on her podcast that despite being married once before, David marked the first official date that she had ever been on — and she remembered researching certain protocols because everything was so new to her.
And Lily opened up some more about her and David’s life together on this week’s episode of Miss Me?, where she revealed that he “often” asks for them to do certain things in the bedroom that she will refuse to entertain.
“I wrote about it in my book,” Lily went on. “Because I felt like I lived in a state of perpetual fear in that period of time because I’ve always felt like I was about to be gotchaed by the tabloids. So I knew that this thing existed, and that I've been behaving this way, and I thought I was going to take a little bit of the power back and reveal it myself in my book.”
Thinking out loud, Lily then added: “I wonder if I kink-shame my husband. Because he quite often asks for things, and I’m like: ‘No, babe, it’s not happening.’”
“I’m not like: ‘You piece of shit, how dare you ask me to do that!'” she then joked. “I’m just like: ‘Hmm, headache. Little headache, got a bit of a headache — maybe not tonight.’”
Throughout the podcast, Lily repeatedly referenced times that she had been more experimental in the bedroom when she was younger, and when she told Miquita that she’d called past partners “daddy” during sex, she admitted that David would be wondering where her “sexy” side had gone.
“Oh my god, I really hope my husband doesn’t listen to this show,” she exclaimed after making the revelation. “He’s going to just be like: ‘Where? Where is this person that’s doing all these sexy things?’ Like: ‘Why are you lying to everyone that you’re this liberated…’”
Lily has opened up about her addiction battle many times over the years. During an appearance on The Recovery podcast in 2021, Lily said that she turned to drugs and alcohol at a young age because she “was just really sad.”
If you or someone you know is struggling with substance abuse, you can call SAMHSA’s National Helpline at 1-800-662-HELP (4357) and find more resources here.