Lily Allen admits to 'codependent behaviour'

Lily Allen has opened up about her "codependent behaviour".

In the latest episode of her Miss Me? podcast, the British singer and actress reflected on the difficulties of her romance with her first partner Lester Lloyd, whom she dated as a teenager.

"I think I was a tactile kid but as soon as I got my first boyfriend Lester, a complete transference of intimacy," Lily told her co-host and close friend Miquita Oliver.

She continued, "Not only did I not want to touch, be cuddled or kissed by anyone in my family, I couldn't engage in it with them either."

Lily then explained that she struggled to show or accept affection from anyone other than her boyfriend.

"It was like, 'No, this person is where I put that now'. It's incredibly red flag, codependent behaviour," the Smile hitmaker shared. "I just put all my emotional dependency on one person."

Elsewhere in the episode, Lily, 39, joked that she finds kissing "perverse".

"Personally I love being kissed, I think it is a wonderful thing. I will however say I think its quite perverse," the star quipped. "When two heterosexual people come together physically - and in the animal kingdom they don't kiss, it's just to impregnate the other person."

She continued, "It is quite an odd thing that we have come up with to express. It does feel great though, I mean I love being kissed, I love kissing people."

Lily's comments come weeks after she entered a mental health treatment centre following reports that she and her husband, Stranger Things star David Harbour, had split after four years of marriage.

David, 49, has since been reported to be dating 27-year-old aspiring model Ellie Fallon.