Lily Allen reveals she was almost sectioned during blazing row with ex-husband Sam Cooper: ‘I threw a water cooler through the window’

Breakdown: Lily Allen reveals she was almost sectioned
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Jennifer Ruby2 October 2018
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Lily Allen has revealed that she was once almost sectioned during a particularly heated row with her ex-husband Sam Cooper.

The British pop star, 33, has admitted that she threw a water cooler through a window and was “pinned down” by six nurses during the incident back in 2016.

Allen revealed details of her hospital stay in her tell-all memoir My Thoughts Exactly, and has now told how a showdown with Cooper almost resulted in her being sectioned.

“It was a build-up of everything and that was the straw that broke the camel’s back,” she told Cosmopolitan magazine.

Blazing row: Lily Allen and ex-husband Sam Cooper
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Even though the couple had already ended their marriage, and Allen was dating grime artist Meridian Dan, she thought Cooper was being “cagey” about his own dating life.

“When I feel that the people I trust most have betrayed that [trust], my whole world falls out from underneath me,” she said.

“[The staff] had me pinned down on the floor. I picked up a water cooler and threw it through the window.

“Dan said six nurses tackled me to the floor and they had the needle out and were about to knock me out and sedate me. Once the needle goes in, you’re sectioned. [Dan] had to really fight with them not to do it.”

Allen recently revealed that she had used female escorts while touring her Sheezus album as her marriage started to crumble.

When asked if the experiences made her question her sexuality, she said: “I had this little voice in my head saying ‘maybe’.

“The not-masturbating and not having the connection with anyone… maybe I was looking in the wrong places. But I didn’t feel attracted to women. I was just on a mission to find out what was going to wake something up in me, so I was trying everything out.”

Read the full interview in the November issue of Cosmopolitan – on sale Wednesday 3rd October.

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