Lily Allen Feeling Like 'Caged Animal'

Mon, 30 March 2009 03:00:27 ET

Lily Allen feels disturbed with the attitude of paparazzi as she is often 'followed by 20 men with cameras all day'.

Britain pop singer Lily Allen really feels annoyed with the paparazzi who often follow her wherever she is. In an interview with The Independent magazine, she says she is frequently "followed by 20 men with cameras all day" which makes her feeling like a "caged animal". "I already know that it's going to change my life...I'm beyond happy," she says. "It's like I've been allowed to have success and a life, because sometimes it makes you feel like a caged animal."

Recently, the "Not Fair" songstress was photographed lashing out at paparazzi as she totally got angry with them. "Seven cars had been chasing me since I left home. I turned into a T-junction and they all ran a red light, then tried to overtake on the inside. A woman had to slam the brakes on her car as they cut in. She had two children in the car, a baby in the back seat, a six-year-old in the front," the 23-year-old beauty recalls.

"I braked too, of course, and this guy ran into the back of me. I got out of the car. I was shaken up," Lily continues. "There was a lot of force. I was really angry. I went up to him and said, you know, 'What the fuck are you doing? You can't do this.' Instead of talking to me like a decent human being would at a decent human level, he got his camera out and started taking pictures, and I just thought, 'I've had it with the press'... It was mental. And I got back into the car and called my lawyer."

Still in the same interview, Lily also opens up about her disappointment toward the press when she experienced miscarriage of her unborn baby with ex-beau Ed Simons. "It was a really weird, horrid time. What was worst about it was that I didn't engage with what was really happening on an emotional level, because I was dealing with the press side of it," she testifies. "I couldn't really comprehend what was happening, because I was concentrating on trying to control the story. People shouldn't have known that I was pregnant anyway. When it became obvious that they knew, we had to say to them, 'I'm not three months yet, please don't write the story because it's too early and we don't know if it will go wrong'. Of course, they ran it, and it did go wrong, and that was really...just...not a nice time."

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