In recent news, Lily Allen claims that her children were threatened because she publicly apologized to an Afghan Immigrant on behalf of the government of UK.
It
is no secret that the singer has been vocal in the past with her
criticism against the British government but her recent comment
caused quite a storm. While on a visit to a currently demolished
refugee camp in 2017 in Calais, France, the singer met a 13-year old
Afghan. After hearing what the teenage boy had been through after
escaping the Taliban, Lily was touched and fazed by that cloud of
emotion, she apologized to the boy stating that she was sorry for
what her country’s government had put him through.
Though
the comment was made offhand, Lily Allen was then slammed for making
such a comment by various individuals, inclusive of politicians. In
her new memoir, My Thoughts Exactly, Lily has revealed that it was
not just her who was the target of the backlash but her children as
well. The singer’s kids, six-year old Ethel and a five-year old
Marnie were threatened several times.
The
singer opens up that following the comment she made to the Afghan
boy, everything she said on social media was twisted and phrased to
mean something else. She was bullied and made fun of, along with
being humiliated. Everything she posted, Lily explains, was ridiculed
and scrutinized. She had often been accused of having a political
agenda behind anything she posted even if it was not even remotely
related to politics. Furthermore, the artist states that people would
often used violent terms, while stating the many ways that they
thought she deserved to be punished in. Often, her kids were dragged
into the threats and were publicly objectified. As a result, Lily was
disturbed.
The singer clarified that consoling
words that she had said to the migrant did not have a hidden agenda.
But, she admitted that she had meant what she had said. Lily
acknowledged that the statement had been poorly phrased but she did
not approve of the bullying that followed nor the threats made
against her children.
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