[Music] Lily Allen is pushing back on reports of her returning a rescue dog after it ate her and her children's passports calling coverage of her story about it deliberately distorted the smile singer explained in detail her side of things and called for people to stop sending her really abhorent messages including death threats in a statement she posted on on Sunday Allan began with a quote from her Miss Me podcast on which she originally discussed giving up the adopted pet we tried very hard and for a very long time she said but the passports were the straw that broke the camels back she continued in her statement this is the part of the podcast that the tabloids decided not to quote in their articles about me dumping my puppy people have been furiously reacting to a deliberately distorted cobbling together of quotes designed to make people angry and as a result I've received some really abhorent 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 Allan discusted her plans to adopt a choa mix on Thursday's episode of the podcast which led her to recall her debacle with a rescue she adopted during the pandemic she ate all three of our passports and they had our visas Allan said and I cannot tell you how much money it cost cost me to get everything replaced because it was in covid and so it was just an absolute logistical nightmare Allan lives in the US with her husband actor David Harbor while her daughter's father Sam Cooper lives in England the kids not having their passports meant they couldn't see their father for months because as the singer put it the F dog had eaten the passports We rescued our puppy Mary from a shelter in New York and we loved her very much but she developed pretty severe separation anx xiety and would act out in all manner of ways Allan wrote in her statement she couldn't be left alone for more than 10 minutes she had three long walks a day two by us and one with a local dog walker and several other dogs we worked with the shelter That We rescued her from and they referred us to a behavioral specialist and a professional trainer it was a volunteer from the shelter who would come and dog sit her when we were away and after many months and much deliberation everyone was in agreement that our home was n't the best fit for Mary Allan went on to say that she's had rescued dogs pretty consistently throughout her life and had never been accused of mistreating an animal so the past few days had been very distressing she ended her statement with a plea for people to stop acting on clickbait articles when you haven't done your due diligence referencing the recent racially driven xenophobic riots in the UK that she said were spurred on by distorted propaganda it's just all so toxic and I know that we can do better she said