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Almost eight years later,Lily Allenis still dealing with the aftermath of losing her first child.
In a Thursday interview forBBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour, the British singer opened up about her new memoirMy Thoughts Exactlyand recalled the heartbreaking experience ofdelivering her stillborn sonGeorge in 2010.
“I went into early labor and they put a stitch in my cervix to try and stop that from developing, and that lasted for the best part of a week,” said Allen, 33, who also suffered a miscarriage almost three years previously during her relationship with musician Ed Simons but has since welcomed daughtersMarnie Rose, 5½, andEthel Mary, 6½, withnow-ex-husband Sam Cooper.
“I don’t think I did — I don’t think I ever will, really,” the “Hard Out Here” singer replied when asked of how she began her recovery process.
“The hardest thing about that was losing a child, but there werecomplications with the actual delivery,” Allen said, explaining, “He was so small he actually got stuck halfway in and halfway out, so to speak, during the delivery, and because his skin wasn’t fully formed they couldn’t [use] forceps [to] pull him out.”
“So there was a period of about 12 hours of lying there with him deceased in between my legs, which was incredibly [traumatic],” she shared. “I went into trauma and Idon’t think I’ll ever really recoverfrom that.”
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The star got pregnant “very quickly” after the loss with her older daughter, but the family was once again plagued with hardship after Ethel’s birth.
“She actually was very ill for the first eight months of her life, and three months after she was born I then found outthat I was pregnant with Marnie,” Allen revealed. “So babies became my focus in that period of time.”
My Thoughts Exactlyis available for purchase now onamazon.com.
source: people.com
