Lily Allen Speaks to the benefits of her last stay at a treatment center, because she says she is now in a “stronger place” after a time of “emotional anxiety.”

“Smile” -singer – who Recently separated from husband David Harbor After four years of marriage, several sources told people – addressed her mental health when she returned to her BBC podcast Missing me?which was broadcast on Thursday, February 13.

“I just feel very grateful to have been given the time and space I needed. I went into a kind of treatment center for a few weeks, which was good, “said Allen, 39.” I did a lot of group therapy and some individual therapy and I just, I needed some time and space away from everything. ”

The star said she did a lot of shadow work about her “inner children’s stuff” while she was in treatment, and even if it was “not easy for any distance”, she knows that healing is a “lifelong journey.”

Allen and Harbor, 49, got married in 2020, and a source recently told people she was “Destroyed” by the splitas “been very difficult for her and her girls.” The singer is the mother of daughters Marnie Rose, 12, and Ethel Mary, 13As she shares with ex-husband Sam Cooper.

On the podcast, Allen said that people often think she “hates” her children, which she does not. She explained that her decision to seek treatment was with them in mind.

“I absolutely love my children and I am in a situation now where I really have to be my strongest self for them. And I felt it became harder and harder for me to be able to show up for them in the way they need me, ”she said. “It was a really big decision to have to leave them for a few weeks to go and focus on myself, but in the end it was for them. Yes, it is for me, but it is for them so that I can get us through this bit. I needed some help to do it. ”

Allen added that she never wanted her daughters to feel like they had to “support me”, because none of her struggle is their fault, and it’s her job to make them “feel safe and secure.”

“I just don’t think I could do it because of the kind of emotional anxiety I was on then,” she said. “But I feel I’m now. I’m not saying I’m 100% there and I’m not saying I get it 100% right or ever come but I’m definitely in a stronger place. ”

She said earlier on her podcast in January that she and her daughters “are a Support networks for each other ” In the middle of a “tough” time.

It is still unclear exactly what kind of treatment center the star was on and when, but she said she was at the facility when Los Angeles shoots Broke out on January 7 and finally ended in the city a week later for work with a new musical.

She also revealed that she has had problems with her medication over the past year and feels like it was “a big part of where things became incomprehensible” for her. She said that an antidepressant “really didn’t work for me”, but thinks she’s “on the right path (now).”

Allen and Stranger Things Star Harbor got married in Las Vegas after meeting the celebrity dating app Raya. She before referred to a “tough time” At her podcast, which she said, her mental health affected and caused her problems with eating.