Lily Allen opened up about the moment she realised she was referred to a child psychologist.
The Smile singer, who has been hitting headlines after break-up rumours circulated concerning her marriage to Stranger Things star David Harbour, revealed on her Miss Me? podcast that she started seeing a new therapist when she moved to New York City but didn't know they specialised in child psychology.
She didn't realise the mistake until the therapist referred her to somebody in the same office who was a psychiatrist. When Lily turned up to the office, she noticed the child-friendly decorations and quickly put two and two together.
Lily explained to co-host Miquita Oliver: "So when I moved to New York, Henrietta my godmother, is a very well-connected person and knew lots of people in New York, and I said 'I'm moving to NY can you put the feelers out and see if there's anyone that could be my therapist?'
"And she said 'yes of course,' so she emailed a couple of friends of hers... she said 'My goddaughter's moving to New York, can you recommend anyone?' and so I connected with this woman, and she sent me an email. I started seeing her and I really liked her, and then about a year and a half in, she referred me to somebody from her office who was a psychiatrist."
Lily continued: "And I turned up at the office, and it was all like little baby chairs, and abacuses and books for children. And I was like, 'This is weird'. When I went to go and see the psychiatrist, he said, 'Obviously we don't usually deal with adults, but because you're Anne's client...'
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Getty Images)"I then went back to Anne, and I was like 'Are you a child psychiatrist?' She said, 'Yeah I told you, in the email'. So basically, Henrietta's friend had assumed that when she said goddaughter, goddaughter meant child, and so she recommended a child psychologist, and so I'm still seeing a child psychologist."
Thankfully, her therapist has still been beneficial despite specialising in children's psychology. Asked whether it has helped, Lily said: "Yeah I think it is actually, because it helps with my kids." Lily recently revealed she had been struggling mentally and spending time away from her husband.
Lily and David co-parent Lily’s two daughters - Ethel Mary, 12, and Marnie Rose, 11 - alongside her ex-husband Sam Cooper. Most recently, Lily told fans that due to focusing on her kids and struggling mentally, she’d been neglecting to eat. "I've been going through a tough time over the last few months, and my eating has become an issue. My therapist and I talk about it, and she says, 'How long has this been going on?' And I said, 'Well, about three years really'. And she's like, 'Okay, why haven't you mentioned it before?'” she said.
"And it's not because I'm lying about it. It's just because it's not seemed at the top of the list of important things that I need to talk about, but obviously, it is. I'm not really good at talking about the bigger picture. That's something about my ADHD as well that I don't link things. And also, my body and my brain are two very separate things to me. I know a lot of people feel those two things are very connected to each other, but for me, it's very different. I spend a lot of time in my head and not a lot of time thinking about my body.”
The singer added: "I'm really not in a great place mentally at the moment, and I'm not eating. I'm not hungry. I obviously am hungry, but my body and brain are so disconnected from each other that my body... the messages of hunger are not going through my body to my brain. I'm not avoiding food, I'm just not thinking about it because I'm so in my head. My body's, like, a few steps behind me."
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