Lily Allen: “My children destroyed my career”. 15 years ago Lily Allen was a celebrated pop star, today she is a happy mother.

The idea that you can be both is simply not true, she says now. Her career peaked in 2009 with the album "It's Not Me, It's You", and five years later she couldn't really follow it up with "Sheezus" She made a different decision: "My parents were often not there when I was a child, and that left really ugly scars"