Lily Allen has issued an apology for branding radio DJ Edith Bowman a "trollop" in a scathing MySpace post from roughly twenty years ago.
The British pop star has addressed her previous remarks about the Scottish radio and television presenter, acknowledging that Edith is the one person she would most want to apologise to.
The comments appeared in a 2006 MySpace post, where she ridiculed Edith’s zeal on the radio and attacked her alleged claim that she was "BESTEST friends" with nearly anyone in a band.
In a fresh interview with Perfect Magazine, the Smile singer was asked which person she would apologise to if she could choose one.
"I called Edith Bowman a trollop in one of my very early MySpace posts, for absolutely no f**king reason, and I apologise," she admitted.
In the original post, Lily complained about being "rudely awoken" by Edith on the radio, claiming she was "warbling on about how she is just BESTEST friends with just about anyone, so long as they are in a band and preferably wearing skinny jeans and stripey cardigans, and how the Magic Numbers are just absolutely brilliant, AGAIN".
Edith later discovered the offending post and confronted the Not Fair singer during an interview at the T in the Park festival in Scotland.
"When Lily Allen was just coming out, she was not very nice and put something on MySpace about me and then got to number one," Edith told students at Glasgow University at the time.
"I remember I had to interview her," she continued. "It was raining and she was in a poncho and prom dress and trainers. I went up and said, ‘Hello, what’s the problem? What have I done to offend you?’"
Edith revealed that Lily subsequently apologised for "lashing out".
"She just kind of said, ‘I’m the type of person who speaks before I think and I was sat there every day listening to Radio 1 and waiting for you to play my record and I just lashed out. I am sorry,’" the radio DJ recalled.
