Lily Allen talks going into “self-hatred spiral”, feeling “ashamed” of lack of education
Lily Allen has discussed the topic of education, and admitted that she can go into a “self-hared spiral” over her lack of qualifications.
The pop singer opened up about her lack of traditional academic education while on the latest instalment of her Miss Me? podcast – which she hosts with her longtime friend and radio host Miquita Oliver.
During the episode, the two got onto the theme of intelligence, which led to the ‘Smile’ singer admitting that she still feels self-conscious about leaving school at age 15, without having any academic qualifications under her belt.
“I’m not educated,” she said. “I left school when I was 15 and I don’t even have one GCSE, not one qualification, and I am ashamed of it.”
She also recalled how she can get lost in a “self-hatred spiral” about the topic – namely when she hears other people talk about going to university.
Co-host Oliver went on to question if more degrees or qualifications would actually make a difference to either of them at this point in time, to which Allen added that she may not have returned to the music industry if she had other options available.
This, she said, arose particularly after she suffered the stillbirth of her son, George, in 2010.
“I would have thought, I’m actually gonna go and be a lawyer [for instance],” she explained. “I really wanted to go into midwifery or obstetrics because that was something that really interested me, but because I didn’t have any diplomas in GCSEs or A Levels it seemed too difficult, too much. I was too lazy.
“And actually too embarrassed… I thought I’d have to go and do my A Levels with a bunch of 18-year-olds and I was already in my mid-thirties. I didn’t wanna do that.”
Lily Allen has been in the headlines for her comments made on the Miss Me? podcast in the past too. For instance, last month the singer turned heads after she named the “very flirtatious” James Corden as the celebrity who was once her “beg friend”.
She also opened up about the “eye-opening” response she had to opening her OnlyFans account, on which she sells photos of her feet.
“It is going very well. It’s been a real eye-opener,” she explained. “I’ve had a lot of disparaging, you know, horrible messages in my DMs. I’m talking really personal, nasty.”
“It seems to me what I’m taking from these, mainly men, is that women should only really be selling images of herself or access to her body when it is an absolute last resort.”
She continued: “I think its a socio-economic issue in a lot of ways, the fact that I’m making money from this podcast and that I’m in a relationship – which by the way my husband happens to support the choices that I make – and I have kids means that I shouldn’t be ‘stooping so low’ as to be profiting from my own body.”
She also revealed how her husband David Harbour reacted to her decision to create the OnlyFans page.
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