Singer Lily Allen has apologised to Edith Bowman after calling her a "trollop" in an old online post.
The 41-year-old admitted that she had "absolutely no f***ing reason" for her 2006 comments about the 52-year-old Scottish radio DJ and television presenter.
Speaking to Perfect Magazine, Allen was asked who she would choose if she were to make one apology and why.
She candidly answered: "I called Edith Bowman a trollop in one of my very early MySpace posts, for absolutely no f***ing reason, and I apologise."
Allen's online post had read: "Rudely awoken by the radio and that trollop Edith Bowman warbling on about how she is just BESTEST friends with just about anyone, so long as they are in a band and preferably wearing skinny jeans and stripey cardigans, and how the Magic Numbers are just absolutely brilliant, AGAIN."
Back when Bowman found out what Allen had said, she called her out on it during an interview at the T in the Park music festival.
"When Lily Allen was just coming out, she was not very nice and put something on MySpace about me and then got to number one," Bowman has previously revealed.
"I remember I had to interview her. It was raining and she was in a poncho and prom dress and trainers. I went up and said, 'Hello, what's the problem? What have I done to offend you?'"
Bowman recalled that Allen responded: "I'm the type of person who speaks before I think and I was sat there every day listening to Radio 1 and waiting for you to play my record and I just lashed out. I am sorry."
New Romance
In the new interview with Perfect Magazine, Allen also spoke about her relationship with Jonah Freud, confessing she can be "high maintenance" with boyfriends.
The star has been dating the 29-year-old for at least eight months. He is the son of entrepreneur Matthew Freud and his ex-wife Caroline Hutton, and the nephew of celebrated late artist Lucian Freud.
The pair have been spotted on multiple dates and holidays since they were seen kissing at her celebrity-packed Christmas party at London's Stringfellow's in December.
After spilling all the details of her tumultuous marriage and messy divorce in her recent music, Allen has now gushed she is in a drama-free stage of life.
She insisted: "There just aren't any dramas or funny anecdotes because I'm not going out and getting wasted any more. All I've done recently is been in venues and done this show. And yes, I've got a boyfriend."
Allen refused to name her new beau but did open up on how she is as a girlfriend.
"I'm high maintenance in a relationship. I'm like 'Do you love me?' 'Are you gonna leave me?' 'I'm ugly, aren't I?' I need a lot of validation," she said.
She argued though that she is low maintenance in most other ways, explaining: "I pay for all my own sh*t. I do like to go to expensive restaurants but I never would ever expect anyone else to pay for it."
"All of the finer things in life, I provide for myself. So that's not high maintenance. Unless we're talking about my own maintenance of myself. Then yes, 10. But to others, no."
Pornhub Prank
Allen again mentioned her boyfriend during a discussion about her "position on pornography".
Recalling a recent incident, she confessed: "There have been times when I've been a porn enthusiast. I'm not currently in one of those periods."
She went on to explain how she tried to go on Pornhub to play a prank backstage.
"I thought it would be really funny while everyone was getting ready to go to the toilet and put porn on and everyone would think I was secretly watching it in the toilet," she said.
The prank was scuppered by restrictive wi-fi, but she continued: "Then I was in bed with my boyfriend later and when he asked me to Google something, Pornhub came up on my search history and I tried to explain but it just didn't sound very believable."
West End Girl
The romance is her first serious relationship since the end of her four-year marriage to Stranger Things star David Harbour.
Allen wrote her acclaimed album West End Girl about the split. She is currently touring the record around Europe and the US, updating her hugely successful show, which she performs as a play rather than a music gig, with new costumes and set pieces.
Her ex-husband Harbour recently cast a shadow of doubt over the critically acclaimed album, telling Variety that the record is "weird".
The album, which has lyrics on extramarital activity and emotional manipulation, is meant to tell the story of her break-up with Harbour, with a bit of artistic licence, but he does not see it that way.
He said: "It was weird. I do believe that it is the privilege of every artist to use their experience to create art, and so I respect her for doing that. I can't really say that much more, because it's my private life."
"In spite of the fact that a lot of people don't allow me a private life, I value it. And I also value the lives of the people that I interact with privately. I just won't speak about that," Harbour added.
"Stories are complex, and that's why I say I respect her creation of art to channel her experience. It wasn't my experience."
Allen previously stressed that her 14-track album, which was written in ten days last December, consists of a "mixture of fact and fiction", adding that fans should not take the lyrics and their meaning as "gospel".
