Lily Allen 'slept with female escorts on tour' as marriage with Sam Cooper broke down

Lily Allen has opened up about the breakdown of her marriage in a new book. Photo / Getty Images

Lily Allen has revealed she paid to sleep with female escorts during the breakdown of her marriage with ex-husband Sam Cooper.

The 33-year-old singer - who married Sam in 2011, and has two daughters, six-year-old Ethel and five-year-old Marnie, with him - says was feeling "lost and lonely" as her marriage was under strain.

Lily opened up about her marriage breakdown in her upcoming book My Thoughts Exactly - which comes out later this month. However she took to Instagram to give her fans a "heads up" before the press could "make it sound worse than it was".

She wrote: "So, in my book My Thoughts Exactly (out on 20th Sept) I detail some stuff from my dark days, around the Sheezus era. I slept with female escorts when I was on tour, cause I was lost and lonely and looking for something. I'm not proud, but I'm not ashamed. I don't do it anymore. (sic)"

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Sooo, in my book ‘My Thoughts Exactly’ (out on 20th Sept) I detail some stuff from my dark days, around the Sheezus era. I slept with female escorts when I was on tour, cause I was lost and lonely and looking for something. I’m not proud, but I’m not ashamed. I don’t do it anymore. The Mail are gonna run with the story tomorrow cause someone leaked it, and they’re bound to make sound worse than it was. Just wanted to give you Er, the ‘heads up’ ! #LINKINBIO

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The Not Fair hitmaker announced in 2016 that she had filed for divorce from Sam following a year of speculation, and officially finalised the process earlier this year.

Lily previously revealed she had considered turning to heroin when her marriage broke down, but instead used sex to "fill the void".

She said: "I was so sick, I said to my therapist: 'Maybe it is time to try heroin.' I know heroin is really the end of the line. But I have toyed with the idea before.

"Instead, after I got divorced, I kept having sex with other guys to fill the void. I was totally out of control."

Meanwhile, Lily's dad Keith - who split from Lily's mother Alison Owen when she was just four years old - recently revealed he's worried about what the singer might write about him, because she's been critical of him in the past.

He said: "Listen, man. I'm not made of steel. But I have read stuff that Lil's said about me [previously] and I've thought, 'Really? Hang on a minute. That's not my memory, not quite.'

"But, you know, it's tricky, and it will be tricky...Because like I say, me, in her eyes, abandoning the family, is a big thing."

-Bang! Showbiz