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Lily Allen reveals the truth behind the stage tears
By Alistair Foster, London Lite Last updated at 13:02pm on 01.09.09Lily Allen has revealed the secret behind her floods of tears on stage last month. The singer had a mystery back injury when she performed in Helsinki and sobbed between songs as she fought through the agony.
In tears: Lily Allen on stage in Helsinki
But now Lily has revealed the full story of her ordeal: she fell out of a DJ booth and landed on her tailbone.
She said: “I was in Scandinavia playing these festivals and I met up with these guys called Scream and Benga, and another guy. They were DJing and I didn't really want to like steal their limelight and stuff, so I was sort of crouching behind the decks, and I sort of fell off the back of their stage, about three feet onto my coccyx.
“It really was the most painful thing ever. It was really horrible, because I had one of my security guys with me, and he said he turned around and just saw these two feet sticking out of the floor, in the air.
“You know when you fall over your kind of natural reaction is to get straight back up again? But I was in so much pain I thought I was paralysed or something. I mean, I really thought that I was going to have to have my legs cut off.”
Luckily, it didn't come to that. But Lil had to soldier on through her show while on painkillers. But that didn't quite go to plan either.
She told Absolute Radio's Geoff Lloyd: “They basically gave me what I can describe as like an epidural, I think, and yes, it kind of numbed from my knees to my lower back to get through this gig. But then half way through the gig the thing started running out and I just burst into tears on stage. It was so horrible, I was sobbing real toddler tears.”
What a trouper. The things these popstars have to go through for their fans.
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You have to love the English.
The one thing you can garuntee they will celebrate is mediocrity.
Lily Allen is talentless.
She will be off to crack America soon like that Robbie Williams
Funny enough no ones ever heard of him over there.
- Pat, Brighton
It wasn't a painkiller! It was cortisone. Which is not a pain killer at all. Cortisone is injected in or around the area of pain, to reduce inflamed tissue. It works as a steroid to enhance the natural production of cortisone found in the adrenal gland.
- Anonymous, Kilburn U.K.
