Lily Allen admitted that she “can’t remember” how many abortions she’s had over the years as she opened up about birth control with her best friend Miquita Oliver. Speaking on their podcast, Miss Me?, the 40-year-old musician described her reproductive system as a “complete disaster area”. She confessed that she would “get pregnant all the time” when she was younger.

While on the topic of contraception, the mum-of-two mused: “I just remember I have an IUD [contraceptive coil] now. I think I’m on my third maybe fourth and I just remember before that it was a complete disaster area. Yeah, I’d get pregnant all the time, all the time.”

Miquita, 41, confessed she didn’t know if the Smile hitmaker had ever terminated a pregnancy as Lily began singing to the tune of Frank Sinatra’s My Way.

Giggling, she admitted: “Abortions I’ve had a few… but then again… I can’t remember exactly how many. I can’t remember. I think maybe like, I want to say four or five.”

Miquita responded: “I’ve had about five too! Lily I’ve never, I’m so happy I can say that and you can say it and no one came to shoot us down, no judgement. We’ve had about the same amount of abortions.”

Lily then recalled one of her experiences with an ex, sharing: “I remember once getting pregnant and the man paying for my abortion, and me thinking it was so romantic!”

Her pal agreed: “I actually think that is romantic! Do you not think that’s romantic?” to which Lily responded: “Am I an idiot? What? Getting rid of the problem?”

The former Popworld host then argued: “No, but if you’re both like, ‘Let’s not do this. I don’t want it. No, neither do I. I don’t have any money. Well, I can sort that out…’”

Yet Lily insisted she wasn’t on board, continuing: “No, I don’t think it’s generous or romantic. Think about that investment. Like, that’s how much is it? £500? Kids are a lot more expensive.”

She then revealed that she didn’t hear from her ex again after terminating the pregnancy but reasoned: “I mean to be honest, I was a f***ing crazy b**** – still am!” Miquita then reflected on her first abortion, admitting: “I was very excited! I felt like I was a woman.”

Admitting she bumped into several people from school at the local contraceptive clinic, she went on: “I think as a young woman starting your contraceptive journey I was quite excited. It meant that I was having sex.”

The TV presenter – who does not have any children – later added that she used to feel “embarrassed” to say that she’d more than one abortion.

She shared: “I felt really embarrassed to even say that I had more than one abortion, why the f**k should I be ashamed? I have had a few.”

Lily, who shares daughters Ethel, 13, and Marnie, 11, with her ex-husband Sam Cooper, went on to share her annoyance at having to justify a pregnancy.

She explained: “It actually irritates me, and I’ve said it before on the record. I’ve seen memes going around sometimes on Instagram from pro-abortion accounts or whatever, whenever this conversation comes up, and suddenly you start seeing people posting things about extraordinary reasons for having an abortion.

“Like, ‘My aunt had a kid that had this disability’ or whatever, ‘If she went full term it was going to kill her, so we have to’. It’s like, shut up! Just, ‘I don’t want a f***ing baby right now’. Literally, ‘Don’t want a baby’ is enough of a reason.”

It comes after Lily shared her views on a woman’s right to choice in the wake of the US Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v Wade back in 2022. Lily appeared on stage during Olivia Rodrigo’s Glastonbury performance to singer her 2009 hit, F**k You, as they discussed the ruling.