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Tragic Details About Lily Allen

Lily Allen was born into an industry family. Her father is actor and comedian Keith Allen, while her mom, Alison Owen, is a producer, having worked on notable projects such as Elizabeth and Shaun of the Dead. And while you think this would be a fantastic setting for Lily to nurture her creative talents, that wasn't exactly the case. In fact, it's Keith that apparently left a pretty bad example on his children.

"I grew up going to Glastonbury [festival] and the Groucho Club," the singer wrote in her 2018 memoir, My Thoughts Exactly, adding, "My dad was part of the Britpop scene, getting publicly loaded with his friends." As she later mused, "My truth is that I didn't feel nurtured as a child." As it turns out, it wasn't just Lily that was feeling neglected. "We weren't a family that did things together," she recalled in her book. Keith ultimately walked out on the family when Lily was just four, and as The Guardian noted, when he actually had a chance to see his kids, "he would plonk them in a room at the Groucho Club while he got smashed in the bar downstairs."

Even as an adult, it appears that Lily still searched for her dad's approval. As she wrote in her memoir, "I spent years trying to shout, Dad! I'm here ... Whatever I did, however successful or however messy I became, either way, I couldn't get my dad to pay me attention."

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