Lily Allen says she received death threats after revealing she gave up pandemic puppy

“I have never been accused of mistreating an animal, and i’ve found this whole week very distressing,” Allen, the English singer-songwriter, wrote in her Instagram stories Sunday. Allen’s revelation generated some backlash online as publications ran articles about her comments, prompting her to post an Instagram statement Sunday lambasting internet users’ reactions as “a deliberately distorted cobbling together of quotes designed to make people angry.” She had mentioned on Thursday’s podcast that the pup, Mary, “was a very badly behaved dog, and I really tried very hard with her, but it just didn’t work out, and the passports was the straw that broke the camel’s back, so to speak.” In her Instagram stories Sunday, she pointed to that as a detail many tabloids hadn’t quoted in their articles. “i’ve received some really abhorrent messages including death threats, some of the most disgusting comments have been all over my social media channels, and i’m really not surprised because this is exactly what those articles are designed to do,” Allen wrote. The story originally came up when she told guest podcast co-host Steve Jones, a Welsh TV presenter, that her family might adopt a Chihuahua mix puppy. She then told him about Mary after Jones asked whether she felt ready for the commitment of getting a dog with her husband, “Stranger Things” star David Harbour. Allen said the pup ate her passport, as well as those of her two daughters, Ethel, 12, and Marnie, 11, whom she shares with her ex-husband, Sam Cooper. In her Instagram stories Sunday, Allen recounted having adopted Mary from a shelter in New York. Even though she “loved her very much,” she wrote, her family struggled to accommodate the “pretty severe separation anxiety” Mary developed. She added that “after many months and much deliberation everyone was in agreement that our home wasn’t the best fit for Mary, the person that she was rehomed with was known to us and that rehoming happened within 24 hours of her being returned.” “We couldn’t meet Mary’s needs and her happiness and welfare were central to us making that decision, as difficult as it was,” Allen continued. “While you can get new passports, Mary may spend months in the shelter waiting for a new family — if she’s lucky enough to find one at all,” the organization said in its post. It added in the caption that it had sent Allen a mechanical toy puppy “that requires none of the care, patience, or commitment a real dog needs.” PETA responded to Allen on Sunday, writing in a post on X that Allen “ruined this poor dog’s life.” – This Summarize was created by Neural News AI (V1). Source: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/lily-allen-death-threats-pandemic-puppy-rcna168123