Lily Allen celebrates nine months of sobriety with triumphant Instagram post
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Lily Allen has marked nine months sober by sharing news of her feat on social media.
The 34-year-old, who admitted she drank “a bottle of Grey Goose a day” when her dependency on booze was at its highest, posed in a sports bra and leggings on Instagram as she celebrated her achievements.
She captioned the snap: “Nine months sober today. And the beginning of an ab is appearing.
“Very pleased. Still can’t make my bed though.”
Allen has never shied away from speaking about using drink and drugs during difficult periods, most recently documenting her struggles on her fourth studio album No Shame and in her frank autobiography My Thoughts Exactly – both released in 2018.
She said one of her lowest points came during her Sheezus tour in 2014, where she would drink vodka with only a splash of tonic so often that she couldn’t taste the difference between her own beverage and her drummer’s glass of water.
Speaking to GQ in 2018, she explained: “I never really had been a drinker before. I always had been a drug taker, and the drinking was an accessory to doing drugs.
“I realised, ‘Oh, f**k, I haven’t taken any drugs for ages, but I’m drinking a lot.’ It had become that bad.”
“I was drinking a bottle of Grey Goose a day. It was really bad.”
It was only when her life started to fall apart, and her four year marriage to Sam Cooper disintegrated, that she cut back on the booze - forcing herself to go 90 days sober.
“I started to just lose everything that was valuable to me in my life," she explained.
“I lost my house and my kids started to feel really distant and I broke up with my husband and started to realise [drinking like I was] probably wasn't working.”
Allen is now isolating with her two daughters, Ethel and Marnie, sharing a rare snap of them together on her Instagram page recently.
