Keith Allen admits using daughter Lily to sell drugs

Welsh actor and comedian Keith Allen recently admitted using his daughter, Lily Allen, to help him sell drugs when she was a child. Keith, 54, said he took Lily along with him to the Glastonbury Music Festival years ago, and used her to help him entice festival-goers to buy drugs from him.

I didn’t see what was wrong with taking little Lily along with me as a sales tool rather like the homeless lads do with dogs. Cute puppy guarantees punters will stop and stroke it and therefore give you money.

Lil’ sat next to the stall gurgling in a pushchair while I cranked up the sales patter and knocked out the lager.

Lily, 22, achieved celebrity status in her own right; her 2006 debut album, Alright, Still, was nominated for a Brit Award, and spun off multiple hit singles.

Source: Digital Spy

Comments

Wow….just wow. How incredibly irresponsible. Couldn’t he have had her taken away if social services had found out?

- Natasha on October 8th, 2007

Disturbing.

Clearly, not his finest moment as a parent.

- Principesa on October 8th, 2007

ok…i’m not sure if i read ok…or if he was joking, because I hope so!….i don’t know what to say…a father that uses his daughter to sell drugs? and he tells that in an interview! wow…

- sil on October 9th, 2007

Wow, that just made me throw up a little bit.

- Alicia A. on October 9th, 2007

Wow. What a lovely little family they have there. :/

- J on October 9th, 2007

I guess that explains alot of her lifestyle choices she has made. So sad…

- Isabel on October 9th, 2007

“Lil’ sat next to the stall gurgling in a pushchair while I cranked up the sales patter and knocked out the lager.”

Can someone translate this; I honestly don’t really understand it. Lilly sat in a wheelchair, gurgling; while he got the drugs together. Is that right? How does that help him sell drugs?

- Jennifer on October 9th, 2007

I don’t know who this is, but its hard not to post something negative here.

Thanks for posting the fact that there are loser celebrity fathers……..I mean really what are you supposed to say?

- Ivey on October 9th, 2007

Jennifer,

My guess is that she was in a stroller, not a wheelchair, just making little baby/child noises. I could be wrong, but it said he took her when she was a child.

That’s pretty insane! Poor girl…

- Tracy on October 9th, 2007

I believe that means that she would sit in a stroller gurgling, like babies do, and that she was cute and would attract customers. Much like how guys use cute puppies to pick up women in a park, he was using a cute baby to attract customers to sell his drugs. It certainly does explain in part why she is the way she is.

- Jeanne on October 9th, 2007

yea, i want other durg addicts “stroking” my baby….. not sure i’d have shared this little gem of a story… WTH!!

- Campbell on October 9th, 2007

That’s despicable. I can’t believe he admitted this in an interview.

- Charity on October 9th, 2007

I believe strollers are called pushchairs in England.

What an icky man. Is he confessing to it now as part of his recovery? Or is he proud of it and is exploiting his daughter’s fame? Maybe I don’t want to know.

- lulululu on October 9th, 2007

Ok, thank everyone for explain that to me. I never thought that a pushchair could mean stroller. I was thinking that he had her pretend that she was handicapped.

I understand now.

- Jennifer on October 9th, 2007

yes we call strollers pushchairs, prams or buggy’s in England, so he’s referring to a stroller.

- clair on October 9th, 2007