lily allenLily Allen has said she thinks it was pretty inevitable that she became a party girl when she did, but now she’s moved on.

She explained recently: “If you’d come to my place six months ago or two years ago, I wouldn’t probably be up by now [at 11am]. There would have been empty vodka bottles everywhere, drugs, whatever.

“If you think, when all this happened I was 21. Becoming famous is all a bit scary and weird and I had no idea how to handle it.

“On the one hand, it’s great - you get all this free stuff and party invites… and then on the other, I couldn’t even stay at my nan’s funeral to pay my respects because there were photographers all over the place. And God, I loved my nan.

“So much is written about you, and you look at it all with these photographs, and you think: ‘Everyone must think I’m a total t**t.’ I don’t ever think I’m any different to anyone else. But suddenly I’m this cartoon of a party girl. If I didn’t know me I’d think I was a t**t, too.

“So you go out and you get off your head. You get invited to parties and there’s free drink and drugs. Well you do, don’t you? What other 21-year-old wouldn’t do that?

“Then you wake up and people are calling you ugly and fat and saying what a state you are. You have to deal with that or you can deal with it by just trying not to deal with it.

“And then something much bigger than all of it happens. At some stage the axe is going to fall. When I had my miscarriage I didn’t even know what I was going through, and I’m there and I have to put out a press release to say I was losing my baby. I didn’t deal with any of that at all. I just went out.

“The thing is, I didn’t actually start dealing with it until the baby’s due date. Then it all hits you and you can’t escape and you have to just do something. You have to start dealing with reality.”

This weekend the singer’s second album ‘It’s not me, it’s you’ reached No1 in the UK album charts and her single ‘The Fear’ retained its position at No1 in the singles chart.