Lily Allen details ‘trauma’ of losing her virginity when she was ‘aged about 12’ and says her father Keith Allen called the police when he found out
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Lily Allen has revealed she lost her virginity when she was aged 12 and said her father Keith Allen called the police when he found out.
The mum-of-two singer, 38, who has been married to Stranger Things actor David Harbour, 48, since 2020, was on holiday with her dad, 69, and younger brother Alfie, now 36, when it happened.
She told Alan Carr, 47, on his Life’s A Beach podcast about how her dad thought she had gone missing at the time.
Lily said: ‘I actually went missing. I lost my virginity to a guy called Fernando in Brazil. When I was about 12, no I am not joking. Never spoke to him again.
‘They thought I actually went missing. I went to his hotel room, and I was on holiday with my dad and brother, and obviously didn’t come back to my room’.
Honest: Lily Allen has detailed the ‘trauma’ of losing her virginity when she was ‘aged about 12’ and said her father Keith Allen called the police when he found out
Thinking back: Lily said her dad had thought she had gone missing at the time – pictured with dad Keith and her film producer mother Alison Owen in September 2010
Lily added she ‘slept in the next day’, and said: ‘I woke up and there was police all over the hotel.
She said: ‘They were literally combing the beach and had T-shirts (asking), “Is this what she was wearing?” I didn’t have the heart to say, “No, I was just losing my virginity”.’
‘It was all a bit traumatic, and I didn’t have sex again then for a while.’
Sex with a child aged 12 or under is called ‘statutory rape’. This means that children this age can never consent and so sex is always a crime. It’s not known how old the man in question was.
There was further trauma for Lily because she said in 2018 that she had had sex with her dad’s famous friend when she was aged 14.
She detailed the incident in her autobiography, My Thoughts Exactly, in which she accused her father of turning the ordeal into a ‘joke’.
Lily wrote that she was sent to a hotel to return the unnamed male celebrity’s football kit after he had played in a charity match.
She met him in the hotel bar and he bought her drinks before taking her to a room and having sex with her.
Troubling; There was further trauma for Lily because she said in 2018 that had sex with her dad’s famous friend when she was aged 14 – pictured in 2006
Her love: Lily is happily married to Stranger Things actor David Harbour – pictured after their Vegas wedding in 2020
Lily penned: ‘I was 14. He was 19, but to me he seemed like someone from a different generation. Afterwards, I felt funny about it. I knew what had happened wasn’t right.’
She admitted she was too scared to tell her dad what happened but, when he eventually found out, she claims he made light of the situation.
Lily, who had already lost her virginity at the time of this incident alleged: ‘My dad turned it into a shtick with his friends. They made up elaborate schemes to blackmail the guy and they rehearsed how they’d call him up and put the s***s up him.
‘I just know that my dad turned me having sex with this guy I hardly knew into a joke between him and his mates. That didn’t make me feel good.’
Lily is now happily married to Stranger Things actor David Harbour, who she wed in a 2020 Las Vegas wedding attended by her two daughters Ethel, 11, and Marnie, 10, who she had with her ex-husband Sam Cooper, 45.
She and Sam tied the knot in 2011 before splitting in 2018.
Meanwhile, Lily has been open for years about her tempestuous relationship with her dad, from whom she is currently believed to be estranged.
They have been feuding on and off since Lily called Keith a ‘self-saboteur’ and took a stab at his career in her memoir.
Keith later told The Guardian about her criticism: ‘That’s true, yeah. I couldn’t channel anything. You could say I wasted a lot of years. You could also say I had a f****** great time.
‘I was in at the beginning for a lot of things. I presented one of the first “yoof TV” shows. I was one of the first performers at the Comedy Store.’
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