Lily Allen reveals she's 'overwhelmed' after performing at Glastonbury

‘So many emotions’: Lily Allen reveals she’s ‘overwhelmed’ after performing her hit F**k You during Glastonbury return with Olivia Rodrigo after almost three years of sobriety

Lily Allen has revealed she’s ‘overwhelmed’ after performing her 2009 hit F**k You with Olivia Rodrigo at Glastonbury on Saturday. 

The pop star, 37, joined American singer Olivia, 19, on stage to perform the song in response to the US Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v Wade.

She took to Instagram following the surprise appearance and explained how happy she was to get back on stage after almost three years sobriety.

‘So many emotions’: Lily Allen has revealed she’s ‘overwhelmed’ after performing her 2009 hit F**k You with Olivia Rodrigo at Glastonbury on Saturday

Lily, who attended the festival with her two daughters Marnie Rose and Ethel, was thrilled her kids got to see her perform.

Alongside footage from the performance, she wrote: ‘So overwhelmed watching this stuff back in the car home. So many emotions. My babies got to see their mamma slay Glastonbury with their favourite pop star today. 

‘I actually made them proud! And with nearly 3 yrs sobriety under my belt. So happy.’

The Smile songstress has been candid about her addiction struggles and has now celebrated this special moment after quitting drink and drugs. 

Important message: The pop star, 37, joined American singer Olivia, 19, on stage to perform the song in response to the US Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v Wade

Overwhelming: She took to Instagram following the surprise appearance and explained how happy she was to get back on stage after almost three years sobriety

Sweet: Lily, who attended the festival with her two daughters Marnie Rose and Ethel, was thrilled her kids got to see her perform

Olivia took to The Other Stage at Worthy Farm where she said she was ‘devastated and terrified’ by the ruling which ended the constitutional right to abortion in the US, meaning individual states could decide whether abortion can be made illegal.

Before Lily arrived on stage, Olivia told the audience: ‘Today is a very, very special day. This is actually my first Glastonbury, and I’m sharing the stage with Lily which is the biggest dream come true ever. But I’m also equally as heartbroken.’

She said: ‘I’m devastated and terrified [by the ruling] and so many women and girls are going to die because of this and I wanted to dedicate this next song to the five members of the Supreme Court who showed us at the end of the day they truly don’t give a s*** about freedom.’

Alongside footage from the performance, she wrote: ‘So overwhelmed watching this stuff back in the car home. So many emotions’

After her words prompted huge applause from the audience, Olivia went on to address the Supreme Court justices individually, saying: ‘This song goes out to the justices Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, Amy Coney Barrett, and Brett Kavanaugh.’

Introducing her guest performer, Olivia said: ‘Someone that I absolutely adore is here today, I think she’s the most incredible song-writer, the most incredible artist, the most incredible person, and I’m so lucky that she’s here singing with me today.’

Lily was then seen giving the middle finger as she stood on stage, before saying: ‘We hate you guys!’ as the pair launched into the expletive-filled song. 

The Supreme Court ended constitutional protections for abortion that have been in place for nearly 50 years by deciding to overturn the landmark 1973 Roe v Wade ruling and hand back power to individual states to decide whether or not to permit the procedure.  

The justices held that the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that allowed abortions performed before a fetus would be viable outside the womb – between 24 and 28 weeks of pregnancy – was wrongly decided because the U.S. Constitution makes no specific mention of abortion rights.

The ruling means that individual states now have the power to decide on whether to ban abortion. The Guttmacher Institute, a pro-choice research group, has said that 26 states are ‘certain or likely’ to ban abortion now.

She continued: ‘My babies got to see their mamma slay Glastonbury with their favourite pop star today. I actually made them proud! And with nearly 3 yrs sobriety under my belt. So happy.’

Proud: The Smile songstress has been candid about her addiction struggles and has now celebrated this special moment after quitting drink and drugs

Oh my: Lily was seen giving the middle finger on stage as she performed

The decision means that women with unwanted pregnancies in large swathes of America will now face the choice of traveling to another state where the procedure remains legal and available, buying abortion pills online or having a potentially dangerous illegal abortion.  

In an address at the White House, President Joe Biden said it was ‘a sad day for the court and the country’ and called the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade – and making terminations illegal for millions of American women – ‘wrong, extreme and out of touch’.

Accusing the court of ‘expressly taking away a constitution right that is so fundamental to so many Americans’, Biden vowed the fight over abortion rights ‘is not over’ and said his administration will do everything in its power to combat efforts to restrict women from travelling to other states to obtain abortions.

Saddened: Olivia took to The Other Stage at Worthy Farm where she said she was ‘devastated and terrified’ by the ruling which ended the constitutional right to abortion in the US, meaning individual states could decide whether abortion can be made illegal

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