Lily Allen is implying that her ex-husband David Harbour cheated on her and violated the terms of their open marriage in many brutal songs on her new album, West End Girl.
Allen’s pointed and raw new album, released on Friday, seems to reference the Stranger Things star and the end of their four-year marriage many times throughout the 14 songs. The singer, 40, calls her partner a “sex addict” who led a “double life” and “went astray” from their relationship.
The references begin in the first song on the album, the title track, when Allen sings about how Harbour’s “demeanor started to change” early in their marriage. In “Sleepwalking,” she sings about how there was “no romance” since they married.
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“‘Why aren’t we f—ing, baby?’ Yeah, that’s what you said,” the lyrics continue. “But you let me think it was me in my head, and nothing to do with them girls in your bed.”
In “Tennis,” Allen sings about being gaslit after seeing a text from a woman named Madeline on her partner’s phone. “Who the f— is Madeline?” she asks in the song. When she confronted him about it, he “made it all my fault.”
In the song titled “Madeline,” Allen claims she messaged the other woman to ask “how long has it been going on? Is it just sex or is there emotion?” She also sings about having “an arrangement” in the marriage that allowed her husband to sleep with other women, but he broke the rules they agreed upon: “Be discreet and don’t be blatant. There had to be payment. It had to be with strangers.”
Allen’s rage comes out in “P—y Palace,” where she calls her husband a “sex addict” and tells him that she doesn’t want him in her bed. She also claims she found a shopping bag full of “sex toys, butt plugs, lube inside, hundreds of Trojans,” and wonders how she got “caught up in your double life.”
In “4chan Stan,” Allen claims she found a receipt for a designer purse from Bergdorf Goodman that he purchased for another woman, and wonders if that woman is “famous” because her partner won’t reveal the name.
Representatives for Harbour did not immediately respond to Entertainment Weekly‘s request for comment.
Allen and Harbour, 50, were married for four years, and separated in 2024.
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The singer revealed in a Vogue profile on Monday that her album is “inspired by what went on in the relationship,” and that she felt “confusion, sorrow, grief, helplessness” while making it.
However, she also alluded that the album isn’t entirely autobiographical.
“There are things that are on the record that I experienced within my marriage,” Allen told the outlet. “But that’s not to say that it’s all gospel.”
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