{"id":212658,"date":"2025-12-22T23:06:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T23:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/22\/lily-allen-in-therapy-for-spending-addiction-after-shopping-like-an-insane-person\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T23:06:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T23:06:10","slug":"lily-allen-in-therapy-for-spending-addiction-after-shopping-like-an-insane-person","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/22\/lily-allen-in-therapy-for-spending-addiction-after-shopping-like-an-insane-person\/","title":{"rendered":"Lily Allen in therapy for spending addiction after ‘shopping like an insane person’"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Lily Allen<\/a> has been “shopping like an insane person” following the success of her album West End Girl.<\/p>\n

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Lily Allen has been splashing the cash<\/p>\n

The 40-year-old singer explained that she is in therapy for her spending addiction after splashing the cash on lavish items since the release of her critically acclaimed record – which addressed the end of her marriage to Stranger Things actor David Harbour<\/a> – in October.<\/p>\n

Speaking to her best friend Miquita Oliver<\/a> on a Christmas special of their Miss Me? podcast, Lily said: “I’m just playing with my huge diamond and emerald ring, I bought myself a little present but it’s not that little.<\/p>\n

“You’ve go to treat yourself and mark the moment. I’m convinced I’m a billionaire. Handbags have been bought, jewels and a car have been bought.”<\/p>\n

The Smile hitmaker revealed that she has been in Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing Therapy (EMDR) as a result of her excessive spending.<\/p>\n

\nLily explained: “I start doing EMDR therapy four months ago and it’s been life changing. EMDR therapy is a special type of therapy that stimulates the brain and creates new pathways to certain behaviours or traumatic experiences.<\/p>\n

\n“This is what is working for me currently, I’m not a doctor though.”<\/p>\n

\nShe continued: “You usually start by deciding an area, like a traumatic experience you want to focus on and visualise the experience and identify the feeling that are coming up in your body and mind and the pain levels go down.<\/p>\n

\n“If you’re trying to stop a negative behaviour like spending or drug taking, you do the opposite and think of the good feeling and try and dissociate that feeling from your self-worth.<\/p>\n

\n“In my case a handbag, you separate it by saying this handbag is making me a better person. It is really interesting and I’m not clear on the science but it is working for me.”<\/p>\n

\nMeanwhile, Allen suggested that she has a better idea of the “pain” she caused during her first marriage to Sam Cooper as a result of her separation from Harbour.<\/p>\n

\nLily – who has daughters Ethel, 14, and Marnie, 12, with Cooper – told the Observer newspaper: “Having done things that were not very nice in my first marriage, I have a better idea of the pain I may have inflicted. <\/p>\n

\n“I’ve learned how horrible it is to be on the receiving end of that.”<\/p>\n

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