She isn’t Harbouring any ill will.
Lily Allen has opened up about her newly released album “West End Girl” and how estranged husband David Harbour would react to the record during a chat with Interview published Tuesday.
“It’s not a cruel album,” Allen, 40, said of the record, which was released Oct. 24. “I don’t feel like I’m being mean. It was just the feelings I was processing at the time.”
The “Smile” hitmaker revealed that she wrote and recorded “West End Girl” over 10 days in December 2024, which was the same time she and the “Stranger Things” star, 50, separated after four years of marriage.
“I feel very differently about the whole situation now,” she reflected regarding their split. “We all go through breakups, and it’s always f–king brutal. But I don’t think it’s that often that you feel inclined to write about it while you’re in it.”
Although some fans and critics have dubbed the new record a “revenge album” because its lyrics follow Allen “processing” Harbour’s rumored infidelity, the English singer insisted that she doesn’t “need revenge.”
“That’s what’s fun about this record; it’s viscerally like going through the motions,” the “Not Fair” writer explained. “At the time, I was really trying to process things, and that’s great in terms of the album, but I don’t feel confused or angry now.”
However, Allen went on to admit that she wanted “West End Girl” to “feel brutal and tragic but also empowering” because it was “important” that she “didn’t sound like a victim.”
As for how Harbour may have reacted to the new album and affair claims, Allen refused to speculate. “I try not to think about that,” she said.
“West End Girl” marks Allen’s first album since 2018’s “No Shame.” The 14-track record begins with Allen and Harbour moving to New York City following their September 2020 wedding.
After the “Fear” singer goes to England to star in a London play, she returns to the couple’s Brooklyn brownstone to find that her husband has been texting another woman named Madeline.
Although the Daily Mail named the real-life “Madeline” as New Orleans costume designer Natalie Tippett, Allen insisted that she is a fictional character representing a “construct of others.”
Later in the album, meanwhile, the singer slams her “sex addict” husband’s “double life” and reveals that they had an open marriage.
Despite remaining largely quiet about his and the “Alright, Still” artist’s split, Harbour opened up the rumors surrounding their breakup during an interview with GQ Hype published back in April.
“I’m protective of the people and the reality of my life,” the “Thunderbolts” star said before taking a long pause. “There’s no use in that form of engaging [with tabloid news] because it’s all based on hysterical hyperbole.”
The “Black Widow” star went on to admit that there was “a tremendous amount of change” in his life at the time.
“You can deny this change, be afraid of this change, you can kind of be chaotic about it and, like, eat your way through – whatever you need to do,” Harbour shared. “Or you can sit with however uncomfortable, or weird, or new, it makes you feel.”
The Post has reached out to Harbour’s rep for comment.
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