Poor Lily Allen just can’t get a break. After expressing a desire to change her bad-girl partying and wild-child ways in the wake of her successful new album It’s Not You, It’s Me and subsequent hit single The Fear, here she is again causing quite a stir by attacking a paparazzi photographer after he accidentally rear-ended her car.

An altercation soon followed where Lily proceeded to scream at the guy. Not content, she starts hitting him on the head, kicking him in the shin, and lets loose a long barrage of swear words, She even tried to throw a water bottle as he continued to snap pictures of her.

Now, I’m all for being angry over something that’s someone else’s fault. But the mature thing she could’ve done was to call the police, file a report, get their insurance information, and contacted her lawyer. What was she trying to accomplish? What possible good could come from attacking someone for something accidental?

Then again, this is Lily Allen we’re talking about. Tabloid denizen and blogsphere fodder as she is, controversy seems to follow her everywhere she goes. Maybe this wasn’t an accident at all. Maybe the paps purposefully rear-ended her to get some kind of rise out of her. In the era of tabloid journalism where media outlets will do almost anything to sell a story (or in this case, a photo) sometimes this shit happens.

I just hope this whole thing gets sorted out without any lasting damage. As for Lily, I’ve got a bottle of Valium with your name on it. It’ll help you chillax. Meanwhile, check some more controversial celeb behavior right here.