Lily Allen is sure making headlines lately. She has her feud with Katy Perry and is now telling us that she was basically peer-pressured into taking cocaine.

All in one breath, it seems, Lily Allen defends the use of cocaine, takes a dig at Christianity and has attacked her record label, and that’s just one interview.

Of the hysteria surrounding cocaine use, she says, “The only story is that drugs are bad and they will kill you – you will become a prostitute, a rapist, or a dealer. But that’s not true. I know lots of people who take cocaine three nights a week and get up and go to work. But we never heard that side of the story. I wish people wouldn’t sensationalize it. Some people are just bad at taking drugs.”

She admits to taking cocaine because she always felt left out when all of the people around her were doing it, but she says she didn’t enjoy it.

Of religion, she says, “I don’t like Christianity much. I was brought up in a Catholic school and they told me gays, adultery and drugs were bad. All my mum’s friends were gay, my dad was having affairs and there were drugs in the house when I was a kid, so it was a bit cruel.”

When talking of her record label, EMI, she didn’t seem to spare them, either.

She adds, “I got £50,000 for my first album and I sold a lot of records. Twenty years ago, I’d have been booked in at the Ritz with five grams of cocaine on my table and ten bunches of flowers. Some new clothes. A chauffeur on 24-hour call. Now I’m lucky to get an Oyster card. I ask for a hotel in Paris and I get a two-star place in the eighth arrondissement on my own. I’m like, ‘Do you want me to get raped and killed?’”

[The Sun]