Lily Allen's father taught her to "question everything and everyone".
The 28-year-old singer, who broke into the music scene with her debut single Smile in 2006, is the daughter of British actor and musician Keith Allen and film producer Alison Owen.
Many people in the past have spoken out against Allen's celebrity status and how she came to stardom. In a candid interview, Allen opened up about her upbringing and her journey to fame.
"A lot of my haters, or whatever you want to call them, say I'm only where I am because of my dad, which is completely untrue," she told British magazine Shortlist.
"If anything, I'm where I am today because of how hard my mom worked. I am middle-class kid who grew up in west London, my mum, however, was a working-class girl from Portsmouth who built a life for herself.
"My dad left her when I was three or four... but what my dad did teach me was to never take things at face value, and not believe the hype, and question everything and everyone. It can be quite tiresome, and untrusting, and I am a bit of a conspiracy theorist. But I'm still curious and want to dig deeper into things that I have a lot of questions to be answered."
Allen is set to release a new album, called Sheezus, in 2014.
