one of David HarbourIt appears that her partner’s former partners are offering their support Lily Allen following the release of the pop star’s new breakout album, West End Girl
“West End Girl 24.10.25,” Allen recently captioned a series of promotional images of herself Instagram.
Alison Sudolwho dated Harbour, 50, before her marriage to Allen, 40, celebrated the record in the comments section.
“🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥,” Sudol, 40, responded to Allen’s charge.
Lily Allen pulls no punches on her new album, West End Girl. The 14-track record, which was released on Friday, October 24, chronicles the breakup of Allen’s four-year marriage to David Harbor and heavily hints that the Stranger Things star, 50, cheated on the singer, 40, before their split in 2024. Allen opens the album with (…)
Harbor and Sudol were first linked romantically in January 2018.
“I’m sitting here and I’m thinking to myself, wow, this human being that I’m on this crazy journey with is pretty amazing,” Sudol said via Instagram a month after celebrating Valentine’s Day with Harbour. “What a generous, big-hearted, roaring wonder of a person I can walk and do things with. Like eat food and read books out loud and watch our dog sleep. And isn’t it great. What a burning soul, what a fiery spirit. What a brilliant artist. What a caring, deep, intuitive person, who has changed my life completely.
Us Weekly exclusively confirmed a year later, in August 2019, that Harbor and Sudol had left it “About a month ago.”
Harbor eventually went ahead with Allen, and the couple said “I do” in Las Vegas the following year. The strange things star and Allen separated in 2024which inspired Allen’s West End Girl
Lily Allen.
Dave Bennett/Getty Images for Perfect Magazine“Intimacy is inherently messy. There are usually agreed-upon boundaries in relationships, but whether or not those boundaries are being met is suddenly becoming a gray area,” Allen said. The Times of London on a Saturday October 25, profile of his lyrical inspiration. “Dating apps make people disposable and that leads to the idea that if you’re not happy, there’s a lot more to choose from in your pocket.”
Since the album was released on Friday, October 24, fans have speculated that Allen called out Harbor for allegedly being unfaithful during their marriage. (Harbor has not addressed the claims. Us Weekly reached out for comment.)
“So I read your text, and now I’m sorry / I can’t understand how you been playing tennis,” Allen sings on the chorus of “Tennis.” “If it was just sex, I wouldn’t be jealous / Won’t you play with me and who’s Madeline?”
In a follow-up song titled Madeline, Allen sings about confronting the woman about the alleged affair.
“I know none of this is your fault / texting you feels a little aggressive,” he sings. “I saw your text, that’s how I knew / Tell me the truth and your reasons.”
in her time profile, Allen revealed Madeline is “a fictional character” and a construction of several other real people.
“I feel like we’re living in really interesting times, in terms of how we define intimacy and monogamy, whether people are disposable or not,” she told the channel. “The way we are intimate with each other is changing as humans. Many young women no longer find the idea of marriage or even a long-term relationship so attractive.”
Allen continued, “I don’t know (that) it’s necessarily a bad thing. A lot of people in my parents’ generation stayed together forever and were miserable. You didn’t have endless options, so maybe you worked at something harder. But now they don’t have to.”
Harbor previously expressed her intentions to remain silent about her divorce from Allen, saying GQ in April, “I am protective of people and the reality of my life. This way of participating (with rumours) is of no use because everything is based on hysterical hyperbole”.
As for Allen, I was married to her before Sam Cooperwith whom he shares two daughters, from 2011 to 2018.
West End Girl he is out now