Lily Allen was 'cross' with Sir Elton John for years because he didn't respond to her letter...that she never sent!

Lily Allen spent a few years being "cross" with Sir Elton John because he didn't respond to her letter.

The 39-year-old pop star had penned a note to 'Goodbye Yellowbrick Road' singer Elton, 77, around the time she gave up drinking and had expected that as a fellow sober person, he would have responded to her.

Speaking on her 'Miss Me?' podcast, she explained to co-host Miquita Oliver: "Over the next few years as my life began to spiral out of control, I held much resentment for the fact that I’d made myself very vulnerable in this letter and told him all about my sobriety.

“He’s a sober person so I thought he would have responded to this letter. I was quite cross with him for a few years. I thought it was mean of him."

But it was only when the 'Smile' hitmaker - who now lives in Brooklyn with her husband David Harbour - was unpacking boxes after making the move from London that she discovered that she had never even sent the letter to begin with.

She said: "Then, when I moved here to America, I was unpacking and I found the letter.

“I hadn’t sent it. I’d been harbouring all of this Elton resentment."