Lily Allen has revealed that she has harbored an unfounded grudge against Elton John for several years.
The singer admitted she was angry with the star after he didn’t respond to a heartfelt letter she wrote to him – until she realized she never sent it .
Elton was Lily’s former manager at her band Rocket Music Entertainment, and the two “would talk every couple of weeks to check in and say hello to make sure I was okay,” Lily said on her podcast Miss Me? “There were times in that period when I wasn’t doing well.”
When the pair split professionally, she wrote the 77-year-old a “long letter” expressing her “sadness” about the “Elton-shaped hole in his life.”
Having received no response from him, she admitted: “I was very resentful for making myself very vulnerable in that letter and telling him everything about my sobriety,” she said. she said, adding that she was “pretty upset.” with him for a few years.
It wasn’t until 2020, when she moved to New York with her husband David Harbour, that she found the letter and realized he had never read it.
“Elton, if you’re listening to me – which you probably aren’t – I love you and I don’t have this resentment towards you anymore,” she said.
Both stars made their jokes public. In 2008, they appeared on stage together at the GQ Men of the Year Awards in London. When Elton suggested that maybe Lily should stop drinking, she replied: “Fuck you, Elton.” I’m 40 years younger than you. I have my whole life ahead of me. » He replied, “I might sniff you under the table again.” »
