Lily Allen Reacts to Receiving Death Threats After Admitting to Returning Rescue Dog _ E! News

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00:00You know what, we actually did adopt a dog together already but then it ate my passport

00:05and so I took her back to the home." Lily Allen is responding to receiving death threats after

00:10revealing that she returned her adopted dog. The singer comments on Instagram about backlash she's

00:17received for recently saying she and husband David Harbour found a new home for their adopted dog

00:24Mary after it ate her family's passports. She writes on August 25th,

00:30I have never been accused of mistreating an animal and I've found this whole week very

00:35distressing. The 39-year-old goes on to accuse tabloids of releasing a deliberately distorted

00:42cobbling together of quotes designed to make people angry. Lily clarifies previous comments

00:48noting that her family gave it their all with the pup writing the dog couldn't be left alone

00:53for more than 10 minutes. She had three long walks a day, two by us and one with a local dog walker

01:00and several other dogs. We worked with the shelter that we rescued her from and they referred us to

01:06a behavioral specialist and a professional trainer. The smiles singer's comments come after

01:12the August 22nd episode of her Miss Me podcast when she revealed she and her fam are getting

01:18ready to welcome a new dog into their home. She explained that they already tried with one pup

01:23but a passport incident was the straw that broke the camel's back. You know what we actually did

01:29adopt a dog together already but then it ate my passport and so I took her back to the home.

01:34Got it. It ate your passport. That's a hungry dog. She ate all three of our passports and they had

01:41our visas in and I cannot tell you how much money it cost me to get everything replaced because it

01:47was in COVID and so it was just an absolute logistical nightmare and because my the father

01:52of my children lives in England I couldn't get them back to see their dad for like four months.

01:58I was like you've ruined my life. Yeah she was also like you know passports weren't the only

02:06thing she ate. She was a very badly behaved dog and I really tried very hard with her but it just

02:12didn't work out and the passports was this was the straw that broke the camel's back so to speak.

02:17Lily accuses some tabloids of leaving out that part of the story where she detailed that her

02:22family did indeed try very hard for a long time with the dog. The songwriter who has been married

02:28to Stranger Things star David Harbour since 2020 clarifies saying after many months and much

02:34deliberation the family ultimately agreed their home wasn't a good fit for Mary and she was placed

02:41with someone known to the family. Lily asks her audience to stop acting on clickbait articles

02:48noting it is distortion and all you are doing by engaging with these stories is making more

02:53money for people who profit from sowing diversion and tearing us all apart.