Untold secrets of the Glamour Awards
Lily says she was 'thrown out' on that infamous night. That's not what happened.
When I started this look back over the glory years of the Glamour Women of the Year Awards, I thought I might do one or two Substack pieces. But it turns out there’s a lot to say. Which is why I’ve decided that for this new instalment I’m going to revisit 2008. I wrote a few lines about it here. But I glossed over the notorious incident involving Lily Allen, the paparazzi and a fence.
I can’t be certain but Lily unfollowed me on Instagram a while back and I did wonder if it was because I mentioned the incident in something else I wrote a while ago. But then, she wrote about it in her memoir, My Thoughts Exactly. And talked about it again on Twitter, so I guess she’s decided to just own it.
In case you don’t know, Lily left the 2008 Glamour Awards in a rather dire state. I had presumed too much alcohol. Turns out I was wrong about that.
In her book, she says, ‘Someone gave me a line of what I assumed to be cocaine at the Glamour awards once, but it turned out to be Ketamine. I was thrown out (passed over some railings) of the Glamour awards for being in a K hole.'
I wouldn’t frame it as being ‘thrown out’, more on that in a second. On that point our recollections vary. But one thing Lily and I do share in common about that episode is that we were both unaware that any of it had happened until the middle of the next morning.