Lily Allen has opened up about her previous struggles with drugs. She also spoke about how they influenced her writing process. Moreover, speaking to The Observer, Lily, now almost 40, who has been sober for almost five years, revealed that cocaine once played a significant role in her creative flow.

The singer admitted that cocaine and alcohol helped her silence her inner critic. It also apparently allowed her to feel more liberated and confident about her ideas. “Drugs and alcohol were very good at drowning out my inner critic,” she shared. “When you take cocaine you think all of your ideas are brilliant and need to be shared.”

Despite having a trove of new songs—about 100 in total—Allen confessed that she doesn’t find them up to par and has decided to put her music career on hold. “I have about 100 of them!” she said, but added, “I don’t feel like they’re any good,” leading her to step away from music for the time being.

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George Millington is a music journalist and reviewer situated in central London. He does not write about a single genre but rather the commercial music industry as a whole. His first album was by The Beatles, which he purchased secondhand from a charity shop in his neighbourhood.

He discovered the gem when he was 12 years old and still has it now, claiming it to be why he fell in love with music. He likes to play disc golf when he's not writing about music. He is a one-of-a-kind individual who is always the first to bust out his air guitar on the dance-floor.

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