Lily Allen slams 'deliberately distorted' coverage of her rescue dog story after backlash and death threats

"It's just all so toxic and I know that we can do better," the singer wrote in a statement.

Lily Allen is pushing back on reports of her returning a rescue dog after it ate her and her children's passports, calling coverage of her story about it "deliberately distorted."

The "Smile" singer explained in detail her side of things and called for people to stop sending her "really abhorrent messages including death threats" in a statement she posted on X on Sunday.

Allen began with a quote from her Miss Me? podcast, on which she originally discussed giving up the adopted pet. "We tried very hard and for a very long time," she said, "but the passports were the straw that broke the camel's back."

She continued in her statement, "This is the part of the podcast that the tabloids decided not to quote in their articles about me 'dumping my puppy.' 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 really not surprised because this is exactly what those articles are designed to do."

Allen discussed her plans to adopt a Chihuahua mix on Thursday's episode of the podcast, which led her to recall her debacle with a rescue she adopted during the pandemic.

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"She ate all three of our passports, and they had our visas," Allen said. "And I cannot tell you how much money it cost me to get everything replaced because it was in COVID, and so it was just an absolute logistical nightmare."

Allen lives in the U.S. with her husband, actor David Harbour, while her daughters' father, Sam Cooper, lives in England. The kids not having their passports meant they couldn't see their father for months, because, as the singer put it, the "f---ing dog had eaten the passports."

"We rescued our puppy Mary from a shelter in NY and we loved her very much, but she developed pretty severe separation anxiety and would act out in all manner of ways," Allen wrote in her statement. "She couldn't be left alone for more than 10 mins. She had three long walks a day — two by us and one with a local dog walker and several other dogs. We worked with the shelter that we rescued her from and they referred us to a behavioral specialist and a professional trainer. It was a volunteer from the shelter who would come and dog-sit her when we were away, and after many months and much deliberation everyone was in agreement that our home wasn't the best fit for Mary."

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Allen went on to say that she's had rescue dogs "pretty consistently throughout" her life and had never been accused of mistreating an animal, so the past few days had been "very distressing." She ended her statement with a plea for people to "stop acting on clickbait articles when you haven't done your due diligence," referencing the recent "racially driven xenophobic riots" in the U.K. that she said were spurred on by "distorted propaganda."

"It's just all so toxic and I know that we can do better," she said.

Read Allen's full statement below.

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