Lily Allen seemed to be doing her best to demolish her pop image recently, by criticising the “hysteria” around drug use in an explosive new interview. “The only story is that drugs are bad and they will kill you – you will become a prostitute, a rapist or a drug dealer. But that’s not true,” she told The Word magazine. "I know lots of people who take cocaine three nights a week and get up and go to work. But we never hear that side of the story.” However, within hours of the tabloids getting a hold of the story, Lily’s team began damage control issuing a statement saying she didn’t condone the use of drugs. "At no point [during the Word interview] does [Lily] say that drugs are a good thing or that she condones drug use," reads the statement. It continues: "In fact, she says that, 'I can spot the signs (of people on drugs) and it terrifies me'. Lily Allen would like to state unequivocally that she does not condone illegal drug use and has every sympathy with individuals and families whose lives have been blighted by drugs."