Celeb News: Lily Allen talks about losing her child.

gloamingtheplain

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The singer said she had a "tough time" when her eldest daughter had to be fed through a tube for several months.

In an interview for BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs, Allen said: "I was scared of losing her the whole time."

Lily Allen, who performed at Glastonbury on Friday, had a stillbirth six months into a pregnancy in 2010.

The following year her daughter Ethel was born with a condition called laryngomalacia.

"All I wanted to do was just breast-feed her and to sit there in my chair with her and spend those precious hours into the night looking after your child."

"When we lost our first, I remember thinking it's just so bizarre that I seem to have all these really unique experiences, you know, the highs along with the lows," she said.

"From playing on the main stage at Glastonbury to 70,000 people to losing a child, it's just, everything seemed to be extremes."

Allen, who released her third album Sheezus this year, said her daughter's condition made it difficult for her child to eat.

"It's basically a problem with the throat," Lily explained.

"She was working so hard to breathe, to just exist really, and she wasn't really gaining any weight at all.

"Because all of the food she was taking on, she was just expending the energy on this breathing process.

"When she was really, really little the doctors said she had to have an operation to correct it and then that didn't work so she had to have it again.

"And she was tiny, she'd lost so much weight and then as a result of that, because of what happened before with my previous, it was just a really tough time.

"She just had to be tube-fed for about seven months, eight months. But she's fine now, absolutely fine."

During her appearance on Desert Island Discs she chose the song I Would Rather Go Blind by Etta James which she associates with her stillbirth.

"It's quite difficult to talk about it," the singer said.

"Sometimes I think that listening to certain songs can be really helpful to take you back to a certain place.

"I lost a child three years ago now, and I just remember leaving the hospital empty-handed, so to speak, and driving from Homerton in Hackney, all the way down to Gloucestershire and this song being on a CD that Sam was playing and in a weird way it's just a nice song to kind of connect to."

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Poor girl

Having a miscarriage the first time, then a still birth with your second child and then your third child having two operations and being fed through tubes. It must have been so hard.

Girlicious

Omg, she's lost two kids and possibly a third? That's awful.

Haus_of_Will

I wonder how Lily was talking when she was describing this, she usually has a nice composure but this is heart wrenching.

Gazing Ball

A miscarriage and a stillbirth, what an awful thing for a woman (especially) to go through.

RideOrDie

And this is why she got extra defensive when Azealia tried to come for her children. Not trying to start an argument at all, just putting that out.

gloamingtheplain

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Originally posted by Haus_of_Will

I wonder how Lily was talking when she was describing this, she usually has a nice composure but this is heart wrenching.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features...a7544#b047w8tm

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J a y

2008 Miscarriage (Unnamed)
2008 Psychiatric breakdown / depression
2010 Stillbirth (William)
2011 Ethel born with laryngomalacia
2013 Marnie born

Horrible time for her, and people wonder why she's so protective of her kids.

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Originally posted by Girlicious

Omg, she's lost two kids and possibly a third? That's awful.

She's okay now.

"She just had to be tube-fed for about seven months, eight months. But she's fine now, absolutely fine."

GeminiGurl09

aww. That's terrible

gloamingtheplain

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Originally posted by J a y

2008 Miscarriage (Unnamed)
2008 Psychiatric breakdown / depression
2010 Stillbirth (William)
2011 Ethel born with laryngomalacia
2013 Marnie born

Horrible time for her, and people wonder why she's so protective of her kids.

She's okay now.

"She just had to be tube-fed for about seven months, eight months. But she's fine now, absolutely fine."

Exactly. If you lost two kids and almost a third, you'd be so protective.

Lily had every right to keep reminding Azealia how low she went to come for her.

SpinThatShhh

Celebrate

This is an unfortunate situation for anyone. its unfortunate of her history with these miscarriage situations

Nait Phoenix

I felt the pain when I listened to "Take My Place"…
I can never imagine how much pain and heartache she went through, but I know she's in a better state now…

collin

I can't believe all the things she's had to go through. Truly terrible.

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Originally posted by RideOrDie

And this is why she got extra defensive when Azealia tried to come for her children. Not trying to start an argument at all, just putting that out.

No f**king kidding. I'm a fan of Azealia and even her drags, but when she had it in with Lily
it was the first time I didn't take her side or see where she was coming from. Just horrendous.

rivers

alrightsir

I'm so happy she finally has 2 beautiful children and a happy family. She deserved it.

Darkroth

Lily Allen sis

Such a strong woman

gloamingtheplain

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Originally posted by Darkroth

Lily Allen sis

Such a strong woman

True

Temporal

I didn't she lost two kids, that's awful

Glad she has a new baby though!

tuber123

Poor Lily. Hope everything works out for her.

JCON

That is so sad.

Lily is truly a brave woman and such a great mom!