‘So grateful for my health and happiness’: Lily Allen looks incredible in a mismatched bikini as she celebrates one year of sobriety in Capri
Lily Allen marked one year of sobriety in Capri on Tuesday.
The singer, 35, looked incredible in a mismatched bikini as she took to Instagram to reflect on the past 12 months, telling fans she was ‘so grateful for my health and happiness’.
Lily has previously been open about her struggle with alcohol and substance abuse, saying she turned to it when she experienced trouble in her personal life.
‘So grateful for my health and happiness’: Lily Allen marked one year of sobriety in Capri on Tuesday
Lily showed off her toned abs as she reclined on a sun lounger in a black bikini top and red leopard print bottoms.
The make-free star exuded happiness as she beamed for the camera before uploaded a snap taken in her hotel room.
To mark the past 12 months of being tee-total, Lily posted the bikini photos alongside one of the star looking noticeably worse-for-wear.
Lifestyle change: The singer, 35, looked incredible in a mismatched bikini as she took to Instagram to reflect on the past 12 months
Alcohol abuse: To mark the past 12 months of being tee-total, Lily posted the bikini photos alongside one of the star looking noticeably worse-for-wear (pictured)
Lily captioned the post: ‘1 year completely sober! So grateful for my health and happiness.’
The mother-of-two, who is in a relationship with Strangers Thing star David Harbour, previously took to Instagram to laud her new healthier lifestyle after she quit drinking.
She told her fans last month: ‘9 months sober today! And the beginning of an ab is appearing. Very pleased!’
Lily revealed she had turned to alcohol and substance abuse when experiencing trouble in her personal life in an interview with Stereogum in 2018.
She said: ‘I think I’m a raging co-dependent and then when I feel like I can’t cope, I abuse alcohol and drugs to plaster over some stuff, but I’ve never been somebody that craves a fix.’
The Smile hitmaker also previously discussed her year of turmoil in 2013, taking place just months after she gave birth to her second child.
Lily, who is the daughter of comedian Keith Allen and film producer Alison Owen, admitted she was ‘skidding from festival to festival’, drowning her sorrows.
She credited her then-husband Sam Cooper from pulling her out of the dark place in her life, and revealed her depression stemmed from the luke-warm reception her music had been receiving.
Speaking candidly in an interview with id, Lily reflected: ‘Summer ’13 was a disaster. In short, I was a drunk mess.
‘I was self-medicating with alcohol and whatever else and Sam was obviously attracted to me when I was like that,’ she told the Sunday Times.
‘He could see that I was being quite self-destructive and at one point he said, ‘What are you doing? I would really like to be with you, but I can’t be with you if you are going to be like this all the time.’