Lily Allen admits seeking EMDR therapy amid album success

Lily Allen has been "shopping like an insane person" as she feels overwhelmed over the success of her new album, West End Girl.

Remarkably, the 40-year-old spent £120,000 on a Porsche and £16,500 on a Hermes bag, being "convinced she is a billionaire" but is now seeking counselling for compulsive spending.

Appearing on her Miss Me? podcast for a Christmas special with co-host and best friend Miquita Oliver, Lily shared, "I'm just playing with my huge diamond and emerald ring, I bought myself a little present but it's not that little."

"You've got to treat yourself and mark the moment. I'm convinced I'm a billionaire. Handbags have been bought, jewels and a car has been bought," she revealed her recent purchase.

The vocalist seems self-aware that she needs help and has been in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing therapy for the last four months.

"I start doing EMDR therapy four months ago and its been life changing. EMDR therapy is a special type of therapy it stimulates the brain and creates new pathways to certain behaviours or traumatic experiences," the Grammy award-winning star explained her infirmity.

"This is what is working for me currently, I'm not a doctor though," she said.

The singer further elaborated the process, telling, "You usual start by deciding an area, like a traumatic experience you want to focus on and visualise the experience and identify the feelings that are coming up in your body and mind and the pain levels go down."

She continued, "If your trying to stop a negative behaviour like spending or drug taking, you do the opposite and think of the good feeling and try and dissociate that feeling from your self-worth."

"In my case a handbag, you separate it by saying this handbag is making me a better person. It is really interesting and I'm not clear on the science but it is working for me," she added.

Additionally, the Hard Out There hitmaker and her husband, David Harbour, reportedly separated amid finding his profile on the celebrity dating app Raya and text messages on his phone.