Lily Allen has revealed she once experienced a ‘serious’ earthquake while performing in a skyscraper in Jakarta and was forced to flee with an unlikely group of footballing legends including Dennis Wise and Gianfranco Zola.

The 39-year-old British singer opened up on the scary ordeal in the newest episode of her Miss Me? podcast on Thursday, which she co-hosts with her best friend Miquita Oliver.

The hosts were discussing the natural disasters they’ve been involved in, with Miquita, 40, recalling how she nearly died during the 2004 tsunami while holidaying in Thailand.

Opening up on her own experience, but not specifying when it took place, Lily said: ‘I was in an earthquake in Jakarta.’

Miquita asked: ‘A real serious one?,’ to which the hitmaker responded: ‘Yeah I was doing a gig in a skyscraper and I think it was like 8.7 or something, it was quite big. 

‘We had to run down the stairs because we can’t get in the lift obviously but it was really weird because we were doing a gig for a football channel.’

Lily Allen has revealed she once experienced a ‘serious’ earthquake while performing in a skyscraper in Jakarta

 She was forced to flee with an unlikely group of footballing legends including Dennis Wise (pictured in 2022) and Gianfranco Zola 

She revealed: ‘So it was like me, Dennis Wise, Gianfranco Zola, Theo, and a couple of other people. I think Glen Hoddle or someone, all running down the stairs for like 20 minutes.’

Laughing, Lily continued: ‘Maybe Paul Ince, maybe Alan Shearer, it was like a weird group. There was just a group of like weird footballing legends and we had to run down the stairs. 

‘We were on the 55th floor so it took f***** hours to get down. I was really shook up by it though.’

Elsewhere, Miquita lifted the lid on her horrifying ordeal where she thought she was going to die during the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami. 

A powerful 9.1-magnitude earthquake off the coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra on December 26 2004 triggered a tsunami that killed about 230,000 people across a dozen countries, reaching as far as East Africa.

Recalling her terror, Miquita said: ‘I was on holiday for Christmas with Simon Amstell, just me and him. He saved my life actually. I was hungover on Boxing Day and if I had slept in I would have died.

‘He was like “let’s go, let’s go” and I was like it’s Boxing Day and it’s 7am. The real horror was making the decision and our decision was, basically we were sitting on the beach and this huge wave the size of a skyscraper starts rising and then it becomes wider.

‘We start running up to this hill and all the local people were so unbelieveably strong and were hacking at fences for us to get up higher.

‘I lost Simon. I thought he was ᴅᴇᴀᴅ for about three hours then we find him again then we’re all on this hill waiting for this other wave to come and that was a horror that I have never experienced in my life.’

She revealed: ‘So it was like me, Dennis Wise, Gianfranco Zola (above), Theo, and a couple of other people. I think Glen Hoddle or someone, all running down the stairs for like 20 minutes’ 

Elsewhere, Miquita lifted the lid on her horrifying ordeal where she thought she was going to die during the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami

Recalling her terror, Miquita said: ‘I was on holiday for Christmas with Simon Amstell, just me and him. He saved my life actually (pictured on Popworld together in 2003)

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In the same podcast episode, Lily broke her silence on her stay in an £8,000 per week trauma treatment centre, as she admitted it was ‘getting harder to be there’ for her kids’. 

In her first podcast episode back after her stint in the centre, she admitted she didn’t want her children to ‘have to prop her up’ as she battled ’emotional turmoil’ following her split from David Harbour.

It was reported last month that the singer checked herself into the clinic after telling friends she was close to a nervous breakdown following her break-up from the Stranger Things actor.

Lily called time on her marriage to David in December after discovering he was using the celebrity dating app Raya.

After struggling on her return to the US, Lily announced that she would be taking some time off from her podcast Miss Me? which she hosts with best friend Miquita Oliver.

And now in her first episode back after weeks, she has candidly lifted the lid on her time in the treatment centre and what pushed her to get help.

Lily revealed: ‘People think I hate my children. I really don’t. I absolutely adore my children and I’m in a situation now where I really have to be my strongest self for them.

‘I felt like it was getting harder and harder for me to be able to show up for them in the way that they need me to.

‘It was a big decision to have to leave them for a few weeks to go and focus on myself but ultimately it was for them so that I can get us through this bit. I needed some help to be able to do that.’

In the same podcast episode, Lily broke her silence on her stay in an £8,000 per week trauma treatment centre, as she admitted it was ‘getting harder to be there’ for her kids’ (pictured 2022) 

In her first podcast episode after her stint in the centre, she admitted she didn’t want her children to ‘have to prop her up’ as she battled ’emotional turmoil’ following her split from David Harbour 

She continued: ‘I don’t want them to ever feel like they have to prop me up. None of this is their fault and it’s my job to support them and make them feel safe and secure, and I just don’t think I was able to do that because of the emotional turmoil that I was in at the time.

‘But I do feel like I am now. I’m not saying that I’m 100% there or getting it 100% right or that I ever will but I’m definitely in a stronger place.’

Lily shares her two daughters Ethel, 13, and Marnie, 11, with her ex-husband Sam Cooper.

Elsewhere in the podcast episode, she explained how she started doing different forms of meditation to stop thinking about the past.

The hitmaker also revealed how she’s now started working on a musical she’s been commissioned to do.

Lily said: ‘I went into a treatment centre for a few weeks, which was great. I did lots of group therapy and some like individual therapy.

‘I needed some time and space away from everything. And I did a lot of shadow work – lots of work about my inner child stuff.

‘It wasn’t easy by any stretch. And it’s a journey, it’s a life long journey of healing. It’s not a quick fix.

She said: ‘It was a big decision to have to leave them for a few weeks to go and focus on myself but ultimately it was for them so that I can get us through this bit’

‘But I’ve started meditating every day now, at least two or three times a day. That’s really helping me.’

When quizzed on what app she’s using, Lily recalled: ‘I am using an app called Plum Village. Plum Village is a place in the south of France that was started by a Budhhist monk called Thich Nhat Tanh.

‘His sort of protoges, they all sort of have meditations which I used for different things. So like for deep relaxation, and for like connection to the Earth.

‘I’m not a particularly spiritual person as we know, but it helps me to focus on my breath work and to try and be more living in the moment rather than thinking about the past too much and worrying about the future too much.

‘That’s what I’ve been focusing on. And then about a week ago I came to LA.’

She added: ‘I made my Instagram comeback. I’ve been commissioned to do a musical so I’m here starting on that.

‘It will be a long process but this little stint is the beginning. And it’s been going really well.’