Lily Allen's Terrifying Seven-Year Stalker Hell
Lily Allen has opened up a seven-year ordeal that has left her “practically a hermit” at the hands of a stalker, Alex Gray.
The notoriously private star has revealed that she has faced years of harassment from Gray, with the accused stalking her online, at concerts, and even breaking into her home one night when she and her two young daughters were asleep.
It all began when Gray tweeted Lily with the handle @LilyAllenRIP and claimed that he’d written her hit song ‘The Fear’, he then started sending scary abusive letters and approaching her assistants and friends.
Last October things took a turn for the worse when Lily accidentally left her back door unlocked, with the 30-year-old telling The Observer: “I had all sorts of metal shutters and locks on the doors but I’d been cooking and burned a pan and opened the back door.
"I closed it but forgot to lock it when I went to bed. [Later than night] I sat up in bed and looked and the door handle was twisting round.
"This guy came steaming in and I didn’t know who he was. I recoiled and he ripped the duvet off, calling me a ‘f*cking bitch’ and yelling about where his dad is.
"For me, it was too much of a coincidence that the only night I had left the shutters up, this man came in.
"I believe he had been spending a lot of time out there in my garden, watching.”
Lily went on to slam the police for not taking her claims seriously, admitting that she was made to feel like a nuisance by officials.
She added to the paper: “This was something that started in 2009 with a tweet and ended in 2015 with him in my house and, I believe, with a weapon.
"I’m lucky in that I had the money and the motivation to take action myself. I want answers from the police. If they treat me like this, how the hell are they going to treat everyone else?
"It was not special attention I looked for. It was reassurance and validation. The police made me feel like a nuisance, rather than a victim.”
Speaking about the impact the horrifying ordeal has had on her, Lily shared: “It has affected how I live my life. I’m very wary, I have trust issues. It impacts on your relationships, everything.
"I’m practically a hermit now! I’m very aware of trying not to overdramatise what’s happened, I’m aware that some fears are irrational; I know he is in prison. If I hear a bang, every little noise makes me start.
"I see his face in people in the street. I’ve had to leave the flat I loved, move nearer a main road with lots of CCTV about.”
Gray was convicted with burglary and harassment earlier this month and is due to be sentenced in May.
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