16 year old Gala Talbott blabbed to The Sun claiming she is the secret daughter of Brit TV star Keith Allen, also father to Lily Allen. Gala and her mother said Keith abandoned them and refused to pay child support, and hasn’t visited Gala in over four years.

Although Keith and the rest of the Allen clan (Keith admits to having seven children) deny there is any blood relation, Gala and her mother Angela, who now reside in LA, claimed they can provide proof that Keith did indeed father Gala. They said they just want to acknowledge he fathered Gala, and pay some much-needed child support.

The teenager said: “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.”

Angela suggested Keith’s hesitance to admit he’s Gala’s father might be because she’s black, and he’s ashamed.

“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.”

Gala said more than anything, she would like to establish a relationship with her older sister, Lily, who she invited to her 16th birthday party. Lily was a no-show.

“Lily has never made any effort to contact me. I even invited her to my 16th birthday party, on December 23 last year. My mum sent her and her brother Alfie an invitation. But they didn’t even reply.

“I find it difficult to believe she really cares. If she did she would have made some effort to get in touch by now.”

Gala said she has only seen Keith a handful of times in the past ten years. Ultimately, Angela said she believes the relationship soured because of money. She claimed the last time she called him for money, he replied, “No, fuck off.”

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