David Harbour has finally reacted to his ex-wife Lily Allen’s allegations of infidelity, which she referenced in her 2025 studio album, West End Girl. The Stranger Things actor said, “I do believe that it is the privilege of every artist to use their experience to create art, and so I respect her for doing that.”
What David Harbour said about ex-wife Lily Allen’s West End Girl album after their split
Speaking to Variety in a cover story published on June 10, Harbour opened up about the claims, stating, “It was weird.”
The 51-year-old actor, who separated from the singer in early 2025 after the couple married in 2020, said, “I can’t really say that much more because it’s my private life. In spite of the fact that a lot of people don’t allow me a private life — I value it. And I also value the lives of the people that I interact with privately. I just won’t speak about that.” Adding, “Stories are complex, and that’s why I say I respect her creation of art to channel her experience. It wasn’t my experience.”
According to the BBC, West End Girl marks Allen’s first album in seven years, after 2018’s No Shame. The 14-track album appears to tell the story of their troubled marriage. “It’s very much an album about the complexities of relationships and how people navigate them. It’s a story,” she said previously, as per NME, adding that it is “a mixture of fact and fiction.”
However, in Interview magazine, the singer denied that the album was intended as an act of revenge. She said, “I mean, I wrote this record in 10 days in December and I feel very differently about the whole situation now. We all go through breakups, and it’s always fucking brutal. But I don’t think it’s that often that you feel inclined to write about it while you’re in it.”
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