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

Lily Allen is defending herself online amid controversy sparked by her recent comments about having returned an adopted dog after it ate her family's passports.

Lily Allen is defending herself online amid controversy sparked by her recent comments about having returned an adopted dog after it ate her family's passports.

"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 stressful week stemmed from an episode of her podcast, "Miss Me?" on Thursday, when she revealed that she had adopted a dog during the Covid-19 pandemic "but then it ate my passport and so I took her back to the home."

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.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/lily-allen-death-threats-pandemic-puppy-rcna168123

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