Lily Allen put on a show for the photographers, and made a complete spectacle of herself as she hung out at the Cannes Film Festival where her father Keith Allen was showing his documentary about Princess Diana.

Allen over the past while has seemed to be courting publicity and disaster with equal ardor: getting drunk, falling over and forgetting to wear her clothes in public.

It culminated being photographed as she passed out in a taxi on the way back to her hotel; her father holding her by the scruff of the neck to keep her from nose diving into the floor boards. A few hours previously, she was found face down on her table next to a rather splendid floral arrangement, after enjoying vodka and lychee cocktails at a screening of the movie How To Lose Friends And Alienate People. Earlier at the party she was seen (and I mean graphically photographed) sitting cross legged in a see-through dress without underwear flipping someone off.

The previous day she had been strutting about in a bikini, which she went on to remove in full view of the paparazzi at the Eden Roc hotel in Antibes. After unsuccessfully hooking up with anyone at Cannes Allen attended the Vanity Fair party where she wore a gold and silver dress to schmooze with the likes of Will Smith wife Jada, Bono, Penelope Cruz and Mick Jagger.

At one point Allen said in earshot of many: “Everyone is married or gay - where’s all the cute guys?”

But perhaps this stint of public hedonism which goes back before the Cannes festival is an escape from some demands that are crushing in on her.

Allen is reportedly close to completing her long-awaited second album.

The songstress, who also hosts her own chat show for BBC3, Lily Allen and Friends and is rumored to be working on a sketch show with James Corden from Gavin and Stacey, has been hard at work in the studio and told reporters that she is almost finished.

She was recently quoted as saying: “I’ve worked so hard. My next album is nearly finished. I’m on a two-week break and then I’m starting a massive promotional tour.”

Adding that she is not sure when she will get a holiday next so is making the most of this break. Hopefully her recent behavior is at least partly due to the career pressures she’s dealing with. But until a few weeks ago, Lily was enrolled at a private residential clinic fighting serious depression, and some insiders say that she remains “terribly sad” following a miscarriage in January. Hopefully she is acting out a little and not on the road to a breakdown or stint in rehab.

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