Singer Lily Allen returns COVID-19 dog to shelter after it ate family’s passports and “ruined [her] life”
Lily Allen returns COVId-19 dog to shelter, animal rights group criticise her
By Jeph Ajobaju, Chief Copy Editor
British singer Lily Allen has disclosed she returned an adopted puppy after it ate her passport and those of her two children, an incident she claimed “ruined my life.”
Allen made the disclosure in a recent episode of her podcast ‘Miss Her?’ that she adopted the puppy named Mary during the coronavirus pandemic in 2020 but returned it after it ate her passport, as well as those of her daughters, Ethel, 12, and Marnie, 11.
But she explained she and her husband, actor David Harbour, are considering adopting a new puppy.
“We actually did adopt a dog already, but then it ate my passport and so I took her back to the home. She ate all three of our passports and they had our visas in and I cannot tell you how much money it cost me to get everything replaced because it was in COVID,” she said.
“And so, it was just an absolute logistical nightmare. Because the father of my children lives in England, I couldn’t get them back to see their dad for like four months, five months, because this f**king dog had eaten the passports. I just couldn’t look at her – I was like, ‘You’ve ruined my life.’
“Passports weren’t the only thing she ate, she was a very badly behaved dog and I really tried very hard with her but it just didn’t work out and the passports were the straw that broke the camel’s back, so to speak.”
Allen lives in New York with movie star Harbour and her two children from her previous marriage to Sam Cooper live with their father in the United Kingdom.
Animal rights charity PETA has published an open letter to Allen saying it was “appalled” to hear she returned an adopted puppy because it ate her family’s passports.
Dogs “should never be treated as accessories to be discarded when they become inconvenient. It’s for this reason that we beg you, please, not to get another dog,” PETA stressed.
PETA offered to send Allen a mechanical toy puppy, “which requires none of the care, patience, or commitment that a real one does.”
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