Lily Allen's 'Secret Sister' Speaks Out

THE secret sister of Lily Allen has revealed how she has been abandoned by their "deadbeat dad", actor Keith Allen.

Gala Talbott - whose existence has been a family secret since she was born - claims that her famous father has not visited her in four years and stopped paying child maintenance in July.

The teenager told The Sun: “My dad is nothing to me. He’s never been there for me as a father. I’ve seen him perhaps only three or four times in my whole life. I don’t know him and I don’t ever want to see him again.

“The only thing I expect is for him to provide for me because I’m his child — and that’s the decent thing for him to do.

“He’s got loads of cash but he’d rather spend it on himself. That’s the kind of guy he is.

“It would be different if he was like this to all his children — but he picks and chooses which ones he wants to look after.

“I don’t know why he likes the others more than me. He’s got a sick mind and I am not in his head. At one time I got upset about it but now I’m indifferent.”

Gala’s mum Angela — who met Keith in 1986 when they were both on Jonathan Ross’ chat show  — says that the actor wanted her to have an abortion when she fell pregnant.

Angela said: “Keith was with me because he wanted something exotic. But he probably never wanted a baby with a black woman.

“When he found out I was pregnant he told me to have an abortion. I thought about doing it but Keith refused to go to the clinic with me and I didn’t want to go on my own.

“After Gala was born he offered to have her adopted by a celebrity couple he knew.

“He has never wanted to have anything to do with her. Until she was 18 months he would pop round to my flat for occasional sex. He would play with Gala and make her laugh.

“But after that he was a total deadbeat dad. It took me eight years of legal action to get him to pay maintenance. Now he’s totally cut her off. He thinks that because she is 16 and living in America he does not have to pay his own daughter any money.”

Angela added: “We have decided to speak out now because we are sick of his attitude.

“He should do the right thing and continue supporting his daughter. If he had a single ounce of decency, he would resume her maintenance straight away.”