Lily Allen hasn't spoken to her father for "a while"

Speaking to The Telegraph newspaper, she said: "I haven't really spoken to him, to be honest, for a while.

"The last time I texted him was on Father's Day and he texted back saying 'Thank you.' We haven't connected for a while."

The 36-year-old singer received an "angry" text from the 'Unlawful Killing' star when he found that she had claimed in her book that he'd suffered a "cocaine-induced heart attack" at Glastonbury festival when she was 13 - when actually it was acute food poisoning.

Lily said at the time: "I got quite a cross text from him this weekend.

There was a big piece [in the press] and he texted me, 'Err cocaine-induced heart attack at Glastonbury. Wow.'

"And I said, 'Sorry that's what I thought… I'm really sorry if I got that wrong but that's how I remembered it and you never explained it to me in any other way so that's what I wrote'

"And he said: 'Well that's not true.' And I said: 'I'm really really sorry if I got that wrong, what was it?' And he said: 'Acute food poisoning'."

Lily hasn't always had a strained relationship with the 67-year-old actor as she used to watch football with him every weekend as a teenager.

She explained: "I was close with him and in my teenage years I really wanted to forge a relationship with him so I used to go and watch Fulham play every Saturday with him and his mates and things were really good at a certain point."