{"id":241671,"date":"2025-10-26T09:07:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T09:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/241671\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T09:07:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T09:07:13","slug":"woman-who-had-affair-with-david-harbour-speaks-out-about-lily-allens-scary-new-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/241671\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman who had &#8216;affair&#8217; with David Harbour speaks out about Lily Allen&#8217;s &#8216;scary&#8217; new album"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lily Allen dropped her new album, West End Girl, on October 24 and many of the tracks allude to the breakdown of her marriage to Stranger Things actor David Harbour<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1_Netflixs-Stranger-Things-Season-4-Premiere-After-Party.jpg\" alt=\"Lily Allen David Harbour\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>Lily and David split in December after she found his profile on a dating app(Image: Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"themirror\">The woman who allegedly had an affair with Stranger Things star David Harbour <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.themirror.com\/entertainment\/celebrity-news\/lily-allen-david-harbour-lyrics-1463180\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">has addressed his ex-wife Lily Allen&#8217;s new album<\/a>, which alludes to the actor cheating on her.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"themirror\">Lily, 40, dropped her new album, West End Girl, on October 24, and many of the tracks detail the collapse of her marriage to Harbour, 50. In one scathing song titled Tenni, <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.themirror.com\/entertainment\/celebrity-news\/lily-allen-david-harbour-lyrics-1463180\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Lily sings about coming home to find sexual texts Link opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Lily sings about coming home to find sexual texts <\/a>on her husband&#8217;s phone, and allegedly switches up her voice to mimic the costume designer who, she refers to as &#8216;Madeline.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"themirror\">Now, it has been reported that the woman <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.themirror.com\/all-about\/lily-allen\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Lily<\/a> is singing about is Natalie Tippett, a 34-year-old single mom who allegedly met Harbour when they were both working on the film We Have a Ghost.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE: <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.themirror.com\/entertainment\/tv\/donald-trump-cnn-lies-listed-1421440\" data-tmdatatrack=\"read-more\" data-tmdatatrack-articleid=\"1421440\" data-tmdatatrack-source=\"editorial\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Trump issued brutal blow as all the president&#8217;s lies listed by CNN reporter<\/a>READ MORE: <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.themirror.com\/entertainment\/celebrity-news\/princess-diana-once-described-sex-1446023\" data-tmdatatrack=\"read-more\" data-tmdatatrack-articleid=\"1446023\" data-tmdatatrack-source=\"editorial\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Princess Diana once described her sex life with Charles as &#8216;very odd&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"themirror\">Speaking to the <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/tvshowbiz\/article-15227093\/Madeline-Lily-Allen-world-exclusive-reveal-mum-affair-stars-husband-David-Harbour-Natalie-Tippett-exposed.html\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Daily MailLink opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Daily Mail<\/a> from her home in New Orleans, Natalie said of Lily&#8217;s new album and specific tracks, &#8220;Of course I\u2019ve heard the song.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1_FILE-David-Harbour-and-Lily-Allen-Are-Married-26th-Annual-Screen-ActorsA-Guild-Awards-Red-Carpet.j.webp\" alt=\"Lily Allen David Harbour\" loading=\"lazy\"  \/>David was allegedly messaging another woman(Image: Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"themirror\">&#8220;But I have a family and things to protect. I have a two-and-a-half-year-old daughter, and I understand this is going on. It\u2019s a little bit scary for me,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"themirror\">The chorus of the song in question sings, &#8220;So I read your text, and now I regret it \/ I can&#8217;t get my head &#8217;round how you&#8217;ve been playing tennis \/ If it was just sex, I wouldn&#8217;t be jealous \/ You won&#8217;t play with me and who&#8217;s Madeline?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"themirror\">Natalie was asked by the outlet if she knew that the contents of her texts were going to be included in the release, to which she replied, &#8220;Yeah. I just don\u2019t feel comfortable talking about it at the moment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"themirror\">Across the 14 new tracks, Lily claims that her ex, David, lied to other women about having an \u201copen\u201d relationship with her so he could be unfaithful to her in their marriage. The pair married in 2020 after meeting on the celebrity dating app Raya and divorced four years later.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1_Anna-Wintour-Hosts-Special-Screening-of-Living.jpg\" alt=\"Lily Allen David Harbour\" loading=\"lazy\"  \/>David was reportedly cheating on Lily, leading to their split(Image: Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"themirror\">Allen and Harbour split in January, with reports stating they had separated in December, and Lily spent Christmas in Kenya alone with her children. She opened up about the split on her Miss Me? podcast with her close friend Miquita Oliver.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"themirror\">At the time, she shared that she was suffering from panic attacks and was taking &#8220;time out.&#8221; She said, &#8220;I\u2019m finding it hard to be interested in anything. I\u2019m really not in a good place. I know I\u2019ve been talking about it for months, but I\u2019ve been spiraling and spiraling. It\u2019s got out of control. I can\u2019t concentrate on anything except the pain I\u2019m going through. It\u2019s really hard.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"themirror\">Reports claimed that the singer checked into an \u00a38,000-a-week trauma treatment center after telling friends she was close to a nervous breakdown. Speaking to <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vogue.co.uk\/article\/lily-allen-interview\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">British Vogue<\/a> this month, she confessed it had been hard not to turn to &#8220;drugs and alcohol&#8221; to cope with the divorce.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1_Celebrities-Attend-The-Denver-Broncos-And-New-York-Jets-Game.jpg\" alt=\"Lily Allen, David Harbour\" loading=\"lazy\"  \/>Lily and David were married for four years(Image: GC Images)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"themirror\">Allen has been sober for five years and admitted in an interview that in the past her addiction problems were so bad she couldn&#8217;t remember having &#8220;sober sex&#8221; until she met Harbour. She also admitted that her earliest memories involved drink and drugs, and claimed that she watched her dad, Keith Allen, snort cocaine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"themirror\">She told Vogue of the divorce, &#8220;The last time that I felt anything like that, drugs and alcohol were my way out, so it was excruciating to sit with those [feelings] and not to use them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"themirror\">Harbour was asked about their split by<a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gq-magazine.co.uk\/article\/david-harbour-interview-2025\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> GQ<\/a> in April but declined to comment, saying it would encourage &#8220;a salacious s&#8212; show of humiliation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"themirror\">The Mirror US has reached out to representatives for Allen and Harbour for comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"themirror\">Click <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/publications\/CAAqBwgKMNaI0wswpaTqAw?ceid=GB%3Aen&amp;oc=3\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"hereLink opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here<\/a> to follow the Mirror US on Google News to stay up to date with all the latest news, sports and entertainment stories<\/p>\n<p>Sign up to our FREE newsletter and get the top stories to your inbox<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">DAILY NEWSLETTER: <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.themirror.com\/newsletter-preference-centre\/?view=Solus&amp;mailingListId=ab05ec34-5eed-44b8-861e-5fa7078535c3&amp;utm_source=solusarticle\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sign up here<\/a> to get the latest news and updates from the Mirror US straight to your inbox with our FREE newsletter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lily Allen dropped her new album, West End Girl, on October 24 and many of the tracks allude&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":241672,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[64,63,144274,134,144275],"class_list":{"0":"post-241671","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-david-harbour","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-lily-allen"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}