Miquita Oliver shares she felt pressure to host huge show hours after having an abortion

Lily Allen’s best friend Miquita Oliver has opened up about going through a secret abortion -and how she felt like she could take time away from her TV job

Lily Allen’s best friend Miquita Oliver, 40, has opened up about her ‘secret abortion’. The star revealed that she had the abortion at 24 – with the termination taking place the day before she was due to present the Fashion Rocks event on T4 – in which Lily was performing.

Opening up on the pair’s Miss Me? podcast, she said: “All these popstars would come and sing with a brand, but I’d had an abortion the day before. It was really quite serious and I was only 24”.

Speaking on going to work the next day, she continued: “I didn’t say, ‘ I know, why don’t I call in and say ‘ I’ve had an abortion and I can’t move from pain, ‘ I thought ‘ you can’t do that to Fashion Rocks, who is going to host the T4 coverage? ‘”

She then spoke about the “next level cramps” she experienced while walking around London’s Royal Albert Hall. Miquita then revealed how she was “so embarrassed and so scared” that her ex wouldn’t want to go out with her anymore, which is why she kept it to herself.

Earlier this year, it was revealed that Miquita would be teaming up alongside Simon Amstel for the first time in 19 years after an early noughties stint. The pair were aged just 16 and 21 when they rose to fame on old music show Popworld.

They went on to front the T4 show on occasion, but called it quits in 2006. At the time, Alex Zane and Alexa Chung replaced them as their careers went separate ways.

The pair then joined forces once again as he covered for Lily on the pair’s Miss Me? Podcast. It came after the singer revealed she would be taking a break from the show as she dealt with her marriage breakdown with Game of Thrones star David Harbour.

It came after Miquita claimed Simon would ‘ never work with her again’. Speaking to Metro in 2022, she revealed: “Simon will not work with me again. I don’t know why.

” He’s like, ‘ It was brilliant. Let’s just leave it there’. And I’m like, ‘ Yeah… but we were so good’. “

As well as Simon, Miquita was also joined by singer Mabel and rapper Jordan Stephens as they also covered for Lily during her time away.

Childhood best friends Miquita and Lily began their Miss Me? Podcast in March last year – where viewers hear the pair discuss their lives and plans for the future.

Source: Mirror