Lily Allen has blasted the music industry for protecting a man who sexually assaulted her.
The Smile singer claims she was targeted by a colleague while working abroad. Mum Lily, 39, was made to feel “invisible” after reporting the shocking incident while the unnamed perpetrator was allowed to go about his business.
She said the reaction of her co-workers made her feel “unsafe” and said her attacker still works in the music industry. When asked whether she had been very well protected by the people around her during her career, she said on the Miss Me? podcast: “No.
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“I was sexually assaulted by someone that I worked with. The incident happened abroad. By the time that I wanted to deal with it, I’d left that country.
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“But I wanted people that were sort of mutuals who knew him and knew me and worked with both of us to know that this thing had happened. I made it known in some ways and nobody put anything in place to protect me or what had happened to me.
“In fact it felt like quite the opposite was done in that things were put in place to protect him. And that made me feel very unsafe.
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“I felt pretty invisible to be honest, it was, it was really horrible.”
Many high profile female performers have spoken out about abuse in the music industry. Brit Awards sensation Raye penned her song Ice Cream Man about a sick producer who targeted her as an up-and-coming artist in his music studio.
Speaking about the song on her debut album, she said: “As a woman in and out of this industry, I’ve been through a lot of nasty, traumatic things that I bottled up, didn’t talk about, buried.
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“I didn’t feel like there was a place that I could put it. There’s still a lot of healing that needs to take place there.
“Sadly, more than one man and more than one time in my life.”
One third of women in the music industry have been sexually harassed at work, a damning report found earlier this year. Women are also eight times more likely to face discrimination than men, according to the first ever UK Musicians’ Census.
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