Throughout a contemporary episode of her Miss Me? podcast the 39-year-old singer revealed that she returned the canine after Mary “ate” all of her family’s passports and visas, so her kids weren’t able to go and go to their father in London.

“She ate all three of our passports, they usually had our visas in,” she outlined. “I can’t inform you how a lot cash it value me to get all the things changed, as a result of it was in COVID, and so it was simply an absolute logistical nightmare.”

“As a result of the daddy of my youngsters lives in England, I could not get them again to see their dad for like 4 months, 5 months, as a result of this [expletive] canine had eaten the passports,” Allen who shares two youngsters with ex-husband, Sam Cooper, continued.

The “Alfie” singer, who’s now married to Stranger Issues star, David Harbour, talked about that she couldn’t “look” at her canine Mary as soon as extra after this incident. “I used to be like, ‘You’ve got ruined my life,’” she talked about.

She moreover outlined that the canine wasn’t an excellent match for her family and wasn’t gelling with them behaviorally, noting that whereas she “actually tried very exhausting together with her,” it merely didn’t work out.

Whereas it was the passports that “broke the camel’s again” for Allen and her family, she did reveal that she is also getting a model new pet shortly.

After sharing the story, Allen took to social media to reveal that she’s since obtained backlash and even “loss of life threats” for returning Mary, with animal rights group, PETA, even weighing in on the matter.

“We tried very exhausting and for a really very long time however the passports had been the straw that broke the camels again,” Allen wrote on X (beforehand Twitter). “That is the a part of the podcast that the tabloids determined to not quote of their articles about me ‘dumping my pet.’”

She continued, “Individuals have been furiously reacting to a intentionally distorted cobbling collectively of quotes designed to make folks offended and consequently, I’ve obtained some actually abhorrent messages together with loss of life threats, a few of the most disgusting feedback have been throughout my social media channels, and I am actually not stunned as a result of that is precisely what these articles are designed to do. I am okay nevertheless it has been a very robust few days that has impacted me and my household.”

Allen went on to share additional of the story behind her family’s time with Mary and what led them to return her to the shelter.

“We rescued our pet Mary from a shelter in NY and we cherished her very a lot, BUT she developed fairly extreme separation anxiousness and would act out in all method of the way,” Allen outlined. “She could not be left alone for greater than 10 minutes, she had 3 lengthy walks a day 2 by us and 1 with a neighborhood canine walker and a number of other different canines, we labored with the shelter that we rescued her from they usually referred us to a behavioral specialist and knowledgeable coach, it was a volunteer from the shelter who would come and canine sit her once we had been away, and after many months and far deliberation everybody was in settlement that our dwelling wasn’t the very best match for Mary.”

“The individual that she was rehomed with was recognized to us and that rehoming occurred inside 24 hours of her being returned. We couldn’t meet Mary’s wants and her happiness and welfare had been central to us making that call, as tough because it was.” she continued.

Pertaining to her earlier with rescue canines, Allen talked about that she’s not at all been accused of mistreating an animal sooner than this incident.

“I’ve had rescue canines fairly persistently all through my life since I used to be 4 years previous, I am fairly good at ascertaining a canines wants, I’ve by no means been accused of mistreating an animal, and I’ve discovered this complete week very distressing,” she wrote. “Please cease performing on clickbait articles when you have not achieved your due diligence, I do know that individuals sending horrible messages hadn’t listened to the podcast however had been studying the Mail On-line and the comply with up articles and movies that adopted, I might inform by the language they had been utilizing precisely what their sources had been.”

Allen went on to call the narrative surrounding Mary’s return distorted and likened to the newest unfold of misinformation inside the U.Okay. following the stabbing lack of lifetime of three little girls at a Taylor Swift dance class, that has led to race riots all through the nation.

“It’s distortion, and all you might be doing by partaking with these tales is making extra money for individuals who revenue from stitching division and tearing us all aside,” Allen concluded. “In the identical means that misinformed folks acted on distorted propaganda that led to the racially pushed xenophobic riots we have seen not too long ago within the UK, it is simply all so poisonous and I do know that we will do higher.”

PETA, who responded initially by sending Allen a toy pet after telling the singer she was unfit to handle an animal, replied to the explainer with a harsh tweet that be taught, “YOU laughed when talking about abandoning Mary and ruined this poor canine’s life. She thought she had a loving eternally dwelling earlier than you tossed her out, calling her ‘that f******* canine’ who ‘ruined my life.’”

“Disgrace on you,” the submit continued. “You do not deserve even the toy canine we despatched you.”

Firing once more as soon as extra a the animal correct’s group, Allen slammed PETA for “perpetuating lies.”

“Individuals chuckle once they speak about painful issues on a regular basis, it is fairly regular. I’ve clarified that we did not abandon her and that she was rehomed with folks we knew nearly instantly. Why are you perpetuating lies ?” Allen requested. “What sort of animal welfare charity tries to disgrace somebody for eager to improver the welfare of an animal. Your submit is harmful.”

Allen had launched followers to Mary in a 2021 Instagram submit, telling followers on the time that they could “be seeing much more of her” sooner than making the painful decision to re-home to the pup.