Lily Allen on the 'traumatic' delivery of her stillborn son

Lily Allen has opened up about the heartbreak of having a stillbirth with her first son, George.

The Smile singer was just 25-years-old in 2010 when she got together with her now ex-husband Sam Cooper and fell pregnant.

However, when she was just six months into her pregnancy, she went into early labour and while doctors put a stitch in her cervix to try and stop it, she went into full-blown labour about a week later.

“And as I was delivering him, the doctors said, ‘There was a pulse and now there no longer is.’ The cord was wrapped around his neck and he was just too small,” Lily said in an emotional interview with BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour.

Lily went on to say that she doesn’t think she has ever recovered from losing George and doesn’t think she ever will, especially because the birth was so traumatic.

“He was so small he actually got stuck halfway in and halfway out, so to speak, during the delivery, and because his skin wasn’t fully formed they couldn’t [use] forceps [to] pull him out,” Lily continued.

“So there was a period of about 12 hours of lying there with him deceased in between my legs, which was incredibly [traumatic],” she shared, saying she believes she went into trauma from it.

Lily and Sam went on to have two daughters together, Ethel, six and Marnie, five, before they split up in 2015.

Last year, Lily quit Twitter after vicious trolls hounded her about the stillbirth of her son, with the singer saying her timeline was full of ‘the most disgusting, sexist, misogynistic, racist s**t’.

The singer has just released her first ever autobiography, called My Thoughts Exactly, which details her whole life story, from her childhood to her career and her family life.

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