David Harbour Addresses Lily Allen's 2025 Album, Says It Wasn't His Experience
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Updated · The Guardian · Jun 10
David Harbour Addresses Lily Allen's 2025 Album, Says It Wasn't His Experience
3 articles · Updated · The Guardian · Jun 10
Summary
David Harbour said Lily Allen’s West End Girl was "weird" to hear but defended her right to turn private experience into art, his first public comments on the album.
In the Variety interview, Harbour declined to rebut specific lyrics, saying "stories are complex" and that the marriage depicted on the record "wasn’t my experience."
Allen, who split from Harbour in early 2025 and filed for divorce months later, has described the album as a mix of fact and fiction inspired by their marriage.
The fallout from the album also fed tabloid scrutiny: Harbour called reports of lasting tension with Stranger Things co-star Millie Bobby Brown "weird" and said the pair had repaired a brief rupture.
West End Girl has since spawned a concert tour and talks about a possible stage adaptation, extending the public afterlife of the couple’s breakup.