Lily Allen admitted she had been 'very promiscuous and experimental' with female sex workers during the breakdown of her first marriage to 'help others' Appearing on the Miss Me? podcast with co-host Miquita Oliver, the mum-of-two revealed she was concerned the encounters would be outed in news articles, reports . According to Lily, by sharing her experiences 'non-shamefully', she managed to regain control of the narrative. She said: "During the breakdown of my last marriage [with Sam Cooper] I was very, very promiscuous and experimental and I had sex with female prostitutes.
"I wrote about it in my book because I lived in a state of perpetual fear at that time, because I always felt like I was about to be got ya'd." She further explained her reasoning: "I knew this thing existed and that I had been behaving this way and I thought it was going to be revealed, so I thought, to take a little bit of the power back, I would reveal it in my book." "I did that for two reasons; one, to try and reclaim a little bit of the power where that conversation was concerned, but also because lots of other people have done the same thing.
And I think that when they hear someone like me talking about their own experiences in a non-shameful, matter of fact way, then it makes people feel better about themselves." "And I'm always wanting to do that. I want to do that with my music and to me that is what art is, that is what creativity is, helping people come to terms with their own behaviour that .