Lily Allen recently opened up about her pain of watching her daughter Ethel struggling through a life-threatening health problem for eight months.
The 29-year-old artist said on Radio 4's Desert Island Discs that she was scared of losing her the whole time but all she wanted to do was just breast-feed her and spend those precious hours into the night looking after her child, the Mirror reported.
Allen also revealed that after being tube-fed for eight months and enduring two operations Ethel is absolutely fine now.
A year after Ethel was born in November 2011, she was diagnosed with a condition called laryngomalacia, leaving her struggling to breathe and eat.
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