Lily Allen apologises to Edith Bowman for calling her a 'trollop' after Radio One DJ called her out on her behaviour

Lily Allen has apologised to Edith Bowman after calling her a 'trollop' in an old online post.

The singer, 41, admitted that she had 'absolutely no f***ing reason' for her 2006 comments about the Scottish radio DJ and television presenter, 52. 

Speaking to Perfect Magazine she was asked if she was to make one apology who would she make it to and why.

She candidly answered: 'I called Edith Bowman a trollop in one of my very early MySpace posts, for absolutely no f***ing reason, and I apologise.'

Lily's online post had read: 'Rudely awoken by the radio and that trollop Edith Bowman 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.' 

Back when Edith found out what Lily had said, she called her out on it during an interview at T in the Park. 

'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 has previously revealed.

'I remember I had to interview her. 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?'

'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.'

In the new interview with Perfect Magazine Lily also spoke about her relationship with Jonah Freud, confessing she can be 'high maintenance' with boyfriends.

The star has been dating Jonah, 29, the son of entrepreneur Matthew Freud and ex-wife Caroline Hutton and the nephew of celebrated late artist Lucian Freud, for at least eight months.    

The pair have been spotted on multiple dates and holidays since they were seen kissing at her celeb-packed Christmas party at London's Stringfellow's in December.   

The romance is her first serious relationship since the end of her four-year marriage to Stranger Things star David Harbour, about which she wrote her acclaimed album West End Girl, which she is currently performing in a new run of tour dates. 

After spilling all the details of her tumultuous marriage and messy divorce, Lily has now gushed she is in a drama-free stage of life, insisting 'there just aren't any dramas or funny anecdotes because I'm not going out and getting wasted any more. All I've done [recently] is been in venues and done this show. And yes, I've got a boyfriend.'

Lily refused to name her new beau but did open up on how she is as a girlfriend. 

'I'm high maintenance in a relationship. I'm like 'Do you love me?' 'Are you gonna leave me?' 'I'm ugly, aren't I?' I need a lot of validation.'

She argued though that she's low maintenance in most other ways, explaining: 'I pay for all my own sh*t. I do like to go to expensive restaurants but I never would ever expect anyone else to pay for it.'

'All of the finer things in life, I provide for myself. So that's not high maintenance. Unless we're talking about my own maintenance of myself. Then yes, 10. But to others, no.' 

Lily again mentioned her boyfriend during a discussion about her 'position on pornography'.

Recalling a recent incident, Lily confessed: 'there have been times when I've been a porn enthusiast. I'm not currently in one of those periods.'

She went on to explain how she tried to go on Pornhub to play a prank backstage because 'I thought it would be really funny while everyone was getting ready to go to the toilet and put porn on and everyone would think I was secretly watching it in the toilet.'

The prank was scuppered by the restrictive wi-fi but she continued 'then I was in bed with my boyfriend later and when he asked me to Google something, Pornhub came up on my search history and I tried to explain but it just didn't sound very believable.'

Lily is currently touring West End Girl around Europe and the US, updating her hugely successful show, which she performs as a play rather than a music gig, with new costumes and set pieces.

Lily's ex David recently cast a shadow of doubt over the critically acclaimed album, telling Variety that the record is 'weird'.

The album, which has lyrics on extramarital activity and emotional manipulation, is meant to tell the story of her break-up with Harbour, with a bit of artistic licence, but he doesn't see it that way.

He said: 'It was weird. I do believe that it is the privilege of every artist to use their experience to create art, and so I respect her for doing that. I can't really say that much more, because it's my private life.

'In spite of the fact that a lot of people don't allow me a private life — I value it. And I also value the lives of the people that I interact with privately. I just won't speak about that.

'Stories are complex, and that's why I say I respect her creation of art to channel her experience. It wasn't my experience.'

Lily previously stressed that her 14-track album, which was written in ten days last December, consists of a 'mixture of fact and fiction', adding that fans shouldn't take the lyrics and their meaning as 'gospel'.