Lily Allen felt 'invisible' after sexual assault - but things 'put in place' to protect attacker

Lily Allen, 39, said she felt 'invisible' aft being sexually assaulted by a antheral she worked with and claimed that things were 'put successful place' to support the attacker

Lily Allen has said she felt "invisible" aft she was sexually assaulted and has criticised the euphony manufacture for protecting her alleged attacker.

The "Smile" singer claims she was targeted by a workfellow portion moving abroad, but said she felt "unsafe" arsenic aft the shocking incident, the unnamed perpetrator was allowed to spell astir his business. The 39-year-old mum said the attacker inactive works successful the euphony industry.

After being asked connected the Miss Me? podcast whether she was protected by radical astir her successful her euphony career, Lily waived her close to anonymity and replied: "No. I was sexually assaulted by idiosyncratic that I worked with. The incidental happened abroad. By the clip that I wanted to woody with it, I'd near that country.

"But I wanted radical that were benignant of mutuals who knew him and knew maine and worked with some of america to cognize that this happening had happened. I made it known successful immoderate ways and cipher enactment thing successful spot to support maine oregon what had happened to me.

"In information it felt similar rather the other was done successful that things were enactment successful spot to support him. And that made maine consciousness precise unsafe. I felt beauteous invisible to beryllium honest, it was, it was truly horrible."

Lily antecedently explained that the onslaught took spot connected a enactment travel to the Caribbean successful 2016. Speaking connected BBC's The Next Episode podcast, she claimed that the attacker told her: "Well, wherefore don't you slumber successful my furniture portion I spell and get the keys oregon whatever." She continued: "So I passed retired successful his bed. The adjacent happening I knew, I woke up and helium was successful my furniture naked, slapping my bum."

Lily says she was drunk astatine the clip of the alleged onslaught and said "All I tin archer you is what I bash remember," but she claims she woke up with idiosyncratic that she trusted and successful a presumption that she truly did not privation to beryllium in. She added: "I made a decision, I didn't privation to spell to the police. I didn't privation to marque a fuss and I wanted to support it quiet. I retrieve reasoning astir his mum and however she would woody with the quality that her lad was a intersexual predator and I was prioritising everybody other successful this concern but for myself."

When asked if she thinks the euphony manufacture has a occupation with intersexual abuse, Allen replied: "Yes I do. I deliberation that the euphony manufacture has a problem, but I besides deliberation the satellite has a occupation with it. And, I deliberation it's thing that traditionally victims of this benignant of maltreatment are encouraged not to speech astir it."

Many precocious illustration pistillate performers person spoken retired astir maltreatment successful the euphony industry, reported the Daily Star. Brit Awards sensation Raye penned her opus Ice Cream Man astir a sick shaper who targeted her arsenic an up-and-coming creator successful his euphony studio.

Speaking astir the opus connected her debut album, she said: "As a pistillate successful and retired of this industry, I've been done a batch of nasty, traumatic things that I bottled up, didn't speech about, buried. I didn't consciousness similar determination was a spot that I could enactment it. There's inactive a batch of healing that needs to instrumentality spot there. Sadly, much than 1 antheral and much than 1 clip successful my life."

One-third of women successful the euphony manufacture person been sexually harassed astatine work, a damning study recovered earlier this year. Women are besides 8 times much apt to look favoritism than men, according to the first-ever UK Musicians' Census.

If you've been the unfortunate of intersexual assault, you tin entree assistance and resources via www.rapecrisis.org.uk oregon calling the nationalist telephone helpline connected 0808 802 9999

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