I don’t share her cavalier attitude toward drug use and I definitely don’t like the careless ways she shares that attitude, but it’s kind of difficult to “dislike” Lily Allen for an significant amount of time.
I truly believe the girl just doesn’t think before she speaks.
Case in point: In a recent People article, Allen reveals that she spent three weeks in a “nuthouse” after suffering a miscarriage last year that left her “really depressed.”
Kudos to Allen for being open and honest about her depression and how she handled it (not every celeb is - shoot, not every nonceleb is), but, “nuthouse”? Really, Allen? C’mon girl - it’s 2009.
Of course, Allen wraps up her quote up “Maybe if I had stayed pregnant and had the baby then things would have worked out between me and Ed” (her ex-beau and the father of the baby).
With that, you have to stop and recognize there are some deeper issues going on there than just misguided notions about drug abuse and stunted growth in the whole “let’s not add to stigma with labels like ‘nuthouse’” department. Allen suffered a loss so many women (and men) suffer, and is asking herself the very same questions so many do. The situation is actually quite the exercise in pausing to remember we’re all human and, when you do that, the distinction between disliking the person and disliking her ways becomes much clearer.
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