English singer Lily Allen said she adopted a puppy during the Covid-19 pandemic, but returned it after it ate her family's passports.
The 39-year-old “Smile” singer made the revelation on the Thursday episode of her podcast “Miss Me?”
On the show she discussed with guest co-host Steve Jones, a Welsh TV presenter, that she and her family are considering adopting a Chihuahua mix puppy, and potentially naming it Jude Bellingham, after the British Real Madrid soccer star.
Jones cautioned that getting a dog with her husband, "Stranger Things" star David Harbour, is "a hell of a commitment."
“You know what, we actually did adopt a dog together already, but then it ate my passport and so I took her back to the home,” Allen revealed with a chuckle.
Allen said the pup ate her passport as well as those of her two daughters, Ethel, 12, and Marnie, 11, who she shares with her ex-husband Sam Cooper.
“She ate all three of our passports and they had our visas in and I cannot tell you how much money it cost me to get everything replaced because it was in Covid. And so it was just an absolutely logistical nightmare,” Allen explained.
"And because the father of my children lives in England, I couldn’t get them back to see their dad for like four months, five months, because this f****ing dog had eaten their passports. I just couldn’t look at her. I was like, 'You’ve ruined my life,'” she added.
Allen said "passports weren’t the only thing she ate."
"She was a very badly behaved dog and I really tried very hard with her but it just didn’t work out and the passports was the straw that broke the camel’s back so to speak," Allen said.
Allen and Harbour first sparked romance rumors in 2019 and they married in a Las Vegas wedding in September 2020, according to People Magazine. The two share a home in New York City.