Lily Allen has hit out at the backlash sparked by her revelation that she returned her puppy to an adoption shelter, after it ate her and her children’s passports. The pop star, author and actor received heavy criticism after she told the story on her podcast, Miss Me?, on which she called the passport incident “the straw that broke the camel’s back”. “Passports weren’t the only thing she ate, she was a very badly behaved dog and I really tried very hard with her, but it just didn’t work out,” she told her guest, Welsh TV presenter Steve Jones.
She explained that she was unable to travel to England with her two children to see their father, her ex-husband Sam Cooper, for four or five months while arranging replacement passports. The British musician, 39, recalled the resentment she felt looking at the animal after the incident, stating: “I just couldn’t look at her. I was like, you’ve ruined my life.
” Allen has now claimed that tabloid newspapers failed to include her remark that the passports incident was the latest in a long line of issues involving the puppy, named Mary , which she said had resulted in her receiving “some really abhorrent messages”. “People have been furiously reacting to a deliberately distorted cobbling together of quotes designed to make people angry and as a result, I've received some really abhorrent messages including death threats, some of the most disgusting comments have been all over my social media channels, and I'm.