To think that The Guardian could have found something to replace this interview with Lily Allen?

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The first paragraph is basically 'I conducted this interview two weeks ago before her miscarriage and now it all seems very sad' then there's a not entirely sympathetic interview. Then the last paragraph is a quote about how she was unhappiest in her life right after her (previous) miscarriage ending with 'I'm about to have a baby, which is what I've always wanted'

I think they should have torn up this interview in the light of what has happened to her. I am really disappointed in this editorial decision. And I'm really just having a rant about it. So that's BU right there but fuck's sake can't we be decent to people who've suffered a bereavement anymore?

You are right. They should have scrapped it but maybe Lilly agreed to it going ahead?

I agree. I hope she was consulted about running the story although I don't know why she would agree to it , it must hurt terribly to read it back after what's happened

Bloody hell. Very insensitive.

That should have been rewritten or scrapped.

I hope she was asked and agreed to it going ahead. You don't know that she wasn't. Maybe she thought that it would help highlight the fact that women have miscarriages every day, and it largely gets ignored.

The end of that interview is bloody heart breaking, poor Lily.
I agree OP, you'd think they could have held off from printing the article, no need really.

God that's fucking sicker than sick.

Link please so I can go atomic on them.

Surely if she'd been consulted they would have mentioned it? I'm not a fan of seleb interviews but this makes me both :( and [anger]

will try to find it online.

obv

empty I'm crap at links but if you google 'guardian music' the interview comes up on the guardian website, thats how i found it.

link

At best incredibly lazy journalism.

Doubt Lily has time and room in her head to consider stuff like this at the moment, but perhaps her PR people gave it the go ahead.

Link here hopefully

here even

They blatantly ran it because they knew people would be even more curious to read it now and they knew they could increase sales.

That's the thing that annoys me about The Guardian sometimes, they present themselves as being more moral than other media outlets but still do things like this. It's hypocritical.

Giles Coren on Twitter is suggesting we all write to the Guardian.

I'm sure it's naive of me but I expect better.

The Guardian replies...

Some unhappy with our Lily Allen interview. We felt it was written with warmth and sympathy; her PR fully supported it too. #lilyallen

doesn't really matter what her PR people thought though does it?

Her PR people should have never given the go ahead.

The last paragraph makes me want to weep.

It's not written with warmth and sympathy at all. It's a slightly spiky interview with a prurient introduction tacked on and a re-jigged ending designed to be ironic. And irony and prurience are exactly what someone in this situation doesn't need.

Should have been scrapped. Would have hoped that they would have made a more sensible editorial decision.

Extremely shabby.

Her PR people are clearly twats.

Unless the go ahead came from her personally then it should have been scrapped.