Lily Allen has revealed she held an unfounded grudge against Elton John for several years.
The singer admitted she was upset with the star after he didn’t respond to a heartfelt letter she wrote him – until she realised she never actually sent it.
Elton was Lily’s former manager under his Rocket Music Entertainment Group, and the pair “would talk every couple of weeks to check in and say hi to make sure I was OK,” Lily said on her podcast Miss Me? “There were times in that period where I wasn’t OK.”
When the pair parted ways professionally, she wrote the now 77-year-old a “long letter” to share how “sad” she was about the “Elton-shaped hole in her life.”
When she didn’t hear back from him, she admitted “I held much resentment for the fact that I’d made myself very vulnerable in this letter and told him all about my sobriety,” she said, adding that she was “quite cross with him for a few years.”
It wasn’t until 2020 when she moved to New York with her husband David Harbour, that she found the letter and realised he’d never read it.
“Elton, if you’re listening – which you’re probably not – I love you and I no longer harbour that resentment towards you,” she said.
The two stars have made their banter public. In 2008 they appeared on stage together for the GQ Men of the Year awards in London. When Elton suggested Lily might need to stop drinking, she replied, “F**k off, Elton. I’m 40 years younger than you. I have my whole life ahead of me.” He responded, “I could still snort you under the table.”
