When life gives you a heartbreak, Lily Allen gives you West End Girl.
The British singer went from married life with Stranger Things star David Harbour to writing an entire breakup album in just ten days.
Allen met Harbour on the celebrity dating app Raya in 2019.
Sparks flew and by 2020, they were saying "I do" in Las Vegas with an Elvis impersonator officiating.
In 2025, that romance cracked. The couple quietly split in February after four years of marriage.
Rumours of Harbour’s infidelity began circulating after Allen allegedly rejoined Raya, the same dating app where they first met and was reportedly seen checking the profiles of women Harbour followed on Instagram.
West End Girl, the breakup album
Instead of dragging him on TikTok, Allen did what she does best and wrote a record.
Her fifth studio album West End Girl, dropped on Oct 24 and it is basically a raw, messy and painfully honest post-divorce diary.
Allen told Interview Magazine that she wrote the entire thing in just ten days last December, right in the thick of her heartbreak.
"We all go through breakups and it’s always brutal.
"But I don’t think it’s that often that you feel inclined to write about it while you’re in it," she said.
"It’s not a revenge tour"
When asked if this was her "revenge tour," Allen laughed it off saying "It isn’t."
"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. I don’t need revenge," she said.
Fact or fiction? A bit of both
Allen admitted that West End Girl is "based on truth and some of it is fantasy."
"There are things that are on the record that I experienced within my marriage, but that’s not to say it’s all gospel," she told British Vogue.
Another woman, Madeline, was also mentioned and when asked if she was real, Allen simply replied, "Yes."
Dating again?
Now that she’s single, Allen is testing the modern dating waters and she is not impressed.
"They’re awful, especially if you’re going through heartbreak.
"There’s nothing more depressing than hundreds of people that are nothing like the person that you’re missing," she told Interview.