Lily Allen 'can't remember' how many abortions she's had in heartfelt admission

Lily Allen has said she cannot remember how many abortions she has had. The singer opened up to best friend Miquita Oliver as the pair discussed birth control.

The shock confession by the 40-year-old star came on their Miss Me? podcast. Lily claimed her reproductive system was a 'complete disaster area' and said she would fall pregnant "all the time."

As the duo discussed contraception, Lily said: "I just remember I have an IUD [contraceptive coil] now. I think I'm on my third, maybe fourth, and I just remember before that it was a complete disaster area."

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She then said: "Yeah, I'd get pregnant all the time, all the time," before Miquita, 41, revealed she didn't know her best pal had terminated a pregnancy previously.

Joking, Lily then started to sing Frank Sinatra's My Way. She changed the words as she sang: "Abortions I've had a few... but then again... I can't remember exactly how many."

She then chuckled as she tried to recollect. Lily went on: "I can't remember. I think maybe like, I want to say four or five."

And the mum-of-two's confession led to Miquita sharing her own journey. "I've had about five too!" she said. "Lily, I've never. I'm so happy I can say that, and you can say it, and no one came to shoot us down, no judgment. We've had about the same amount of abortions."

As Lily continued, she admitted an ex had once paid for her to have an abortion. She claimed she thought it was "so romantic" at the time.

Miquita responded: "I actually think that is romantic! Do you not think that's romantic?," leading Lily to reply "Am I an idiot? What? Getting rid of the problem?'

"No but if you're both like 'let's not do this. I don't want it no neither do I, I don't have any money well I can sort that out...'" Speaking of her own experience, Miquita said she felt "very excited" after her first abortion. "I felt like I was like a woman."

Lily later expressed her annoyance at feeling the need she had to justify terminating a pregnancy. "It actually irritates me, and I’ve said it before on the record," she said.

"I’ve seen memes going around sometimes, on Instagram from pro-abortion accounts or whatever, whenever this conversation comes up, and suddenly you start seeing people posting things about extraordinary reasons for having an abortion.

'Like: "My aunt had a kid that had this disability," or whatever, "if she went full term it was going to kill her, so we have to." It’s like, shut up! Just: "I don’t want a f***ing baby right now." Literally: "Don’t want a baby" is enough reason."

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