In a candid admission, Lily Allen has revealed a long-held resentment towards Elton John, only to realize there is no reason for it at all.
She shared the story on her Miss Me? podcast with radio personality Miquita Oliver and opened up about the time EGOT-winning entertainer Sir Elton John managed her.
"I used to be managed by a management company that was owned by Elton John and David Furnish," Allen recalled her time on the John co-owned artist management company Twenty-First Artists.
According to the "Not Fair" singer, she "loved" being managed by the team and recalled budding shoulders with John during their annual Christmas party.
"I'd always sit next to him and he'd make me feel really special," she described her close relationship with John. "He would call me like once every couple of weeks to check in and say 'Hi' and make sure that I was OK."
However, Allen believed her relationship with John shifted gears when she was sent to his house in the South of France "to go and relax and dry out a little bit because I was perhaps not living very healthily at the time."
Afterward, Allen says she and John parted ways just after her third album Sheezus was released, and she recalled being "very sad" about the departure from Twenty-First Artists.
"And I wrote this long letter to Elton to say how sad I was about the situation and that I was particularly sad because he didn't call me anymore and I didn't get my bi-monthly phone call from Elton checking in and there was this big Elton-shaped hole in my life," she reflected.
Allen revealed that her life "began to sort of spiral out of control" after her departure from the management. In 2014, around the time after she departed the management firm and the release of Sheezus, Allen claimed that she had an "identity crisis."
"..I held much resentment for the fact that I'd made myself very vulnerable in this letter and told him all about my sobriety, and he's a sober person, Elton, so I thought that he would've responded to this letter," she said on the podcast.
Since then, Allen confirmed that she had been "quite cross" with the singer for a few years, disturbed that he had not responded to her letter.
"I'd been very sort of vulnerable and open and I thought it was mean of him actually," she said.
However, everything seemed to dwindle when she discovered that the letter she had written for Elton had never been sent. Allen found it in a box when she was unpacking things when she moved back to the United States.
"So I've been harbouring all this Elton resentment," she realized. "It felt so out of character, which is why I was so upset.... I poured my heart out and I told him that I wanted to get clean. Anyway, Elton if you're listening, which you're probably not, I love you and I no longer harbour that resentment towards you."
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