Lily Allen Details Traumatic 'Statutory Rape' Experience, Recalls How Father Reacted

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According to Lily Allen, her father Keith Allen phoned the police when he learned that she had lost her virginity when she was 12 years old.

The mother-of-two singer, 38, was on vacation with her father, 69, and younger brother Alfie, now 36, at the time.

She has been married to "Stranger Things" actor David Harbour, 48, since 2020.

On the "Life's A Beach" podcast, she spoke with 47-year-old Alan Carr about how her father initially believed she had vanished.

She actually went missing, Lily claimed. She said she gave up her virginity to Fernando in Brazil. They believed that she actually vanished. While on vacation with her dad and brother, she went to his hotel room instead of returning to mine.

The following day, Lily stated she "slept in," adding that she woke up and there was police all over the hotel.

She said after the event, she didn't have sex again for a while because it was all a little traumatic.

While she did not say it directly, what happened to her is statutory rape.

Statutory rape is the term for having sex with a minor under the age of 12.

This implies that sex is always illegal since kids this age are incapable of giving their consent. The age of the man in question is unknown. Lily experienced more trauma when she revealed in 2018 that she had sex with her dad's well-known acquaintance when she was 14 years old.

She wrote about the incident in her autobiography, "My Thoughts Exactly," and blamed her father for making light of the situation.

Lily claimed that after the unidentified male celebrity had participated in a charity game, she had been directed to a hotel to return his football uniform.

He approached her at the hotel bar, bought her drinks, took her to a room, and had sex with her there.

She acknowledged that she was too afraid to tell her father what had happened, but she alleges that when he did, he made light of the circumstance.

Right now, Lily is currently blissfully married to Stranger Things actor David Harbour. Her two kids Ethel, 11, and Marnie, 10, who she shares with her ex-husband Sam Cooper, 45, attended the 2020 Las Vegas wedding. She and Sam got married in 2011 and divorced in 2018.

Allen now resides in New York, where she is mostly unknown. She had also abandoned music - at least temporarily - in favor of acting, which is why she was back in London. Allen is now portraying the lead character in "The Pillowman," a West End revival of the 2003 play by "Banshees of Inisherin" author and director Martin McDonagh, which is currently playing at The Duke of York's Theater and will continue through September 2.

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