Lily Allen responds to backlash surrounding admission she rehomed her dog

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Lily Allen has responded to the backlash surrounding her controversial admission that she rehomed her former pet dog.The pop star made the confession on her podcast Miss Me?

with Miquita Oliver, saying that she returned her dog Mary after it “ate my passport”. Allen, who adopted Mary in 2021, said it became “an absolute logistical nightmare” due to her living in New York City and the father of her children living in London.Allen said the dog ate other items, calling her “very badly behaved” and adding: “It just didn’t work out and the passports was the straw that broke the camel’s back so to speak.”Animal rights organisation PETA were amongst the many to criticise Allen for her admission, whose vice president of programmes wrote: “While you could get new passports and rebook your flights, Mary may spend many months in the shelter waiting for a new family – if she’s lucky enough to find one at all.”Now, Allen has responded to the furore, taking to X/Twitter to write that “people have been furiously reacting to a deliberately distorted cobbling together of quotes designed to make people angry and as a result, I’ve received some really abhorrent messages including death threats.”"We tried very hard and for a very long time but the passports were the straw that broke the camels back"This is the part of the podcast that the tabloids decided not to quote in their articles about me "dumping my puppy"People have been furiously reacting to a deliberately…— Lily Allen (@lilyallen) August 25, 2024“I’m ok but it has been a really tough few days that has impacted me and my family,” she added.Allen added some extra context, writing that Mary had “pretty severe separation anxiety and would act out in all manner of ways”.