Alison Sudol, David Harbour’s ex-girlfriend, has publicly backed Lily Allen following the release of her ‘brutal’ new album, which details the actor’s breakup from Stranger Things.
David Harbour’s former flame, Alison Sudol, has publicly backed Lily Allen after the singer laid bare his infidelities in her ‘brutal’ new album. The actress and songwriter took to Instagram this week to respond to one of Lily’s posts about her latest record.
The explicit and brutally honest lyrics in West End Girl, which was released earlier this month, have drawn attention for their four-year marriage to David, which ended with her accusing the actor of multiple affairs.
In her most discussed track, titled Madeline, she seems to directly confront David’s unfaithfulness with a mystery woman, whom she assigns the fictional name of Madeline. The second verse of Lily’s song P***y Palace poignantly reveals how she discovered a shoebox filled with letters ‘from broken hearted women that wished you could have been better’.
Alison, 40, who was romantically involved with David for a year in 2018 before he was first associated with the Not Fair singer, responded with seven flame emojis to Lily’s post promoting the album.
While celebrating Valentine’s Day with Harbour in 2018, Alison had lavished praise on him in an Instagram post, referring to herself as a ‘lucky woman’.
She wrote at the time, “I’m sitting here and thinking to myself, wow, this human being that I’m on this crazy journey with is pretty unbelievable. What a generous, generous, and wonderful person I get to do things with. like watching our dog sleep and eating food. And that’s not great. What a fire-spirit, what an energizing soul. What a brilliant artist!
What a loving, compassionate, and intuitive individual who completely transformed my life. What a wonderful woman I am.
The reasons behind Alison and David’s split in 2019 remain unclear. Alison, who was raised in Los Angeles, is most recognised for portraying Queenie Goldstein in Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them and its follow-up films.
The actress is now mum to two children with fiancé Tom Cullen, and has previously spoken candidly about the heartbreak of suffering a miscarriage.
She said, “It doesn’t matter how much I’ve worked through or processed it, it doesn’t matter how much I’ve dealt with it.” An entire album about it is what I’ve written about. But “it just keeps going.”
Lily made it known this week that she would be performing in March 2026 at theaters across the country on her first tour in seven years. Before moving on to Cardiff, Newcastle, Bristol, and Glasgow, she’ll give her first two performances.
The London Palladium will host Lily for two nights in a row before the tour wraps up. After breaking up with David, Lily checked herself into a £8,000-per-week trauma treatment facility to give her mental well-being a priority.
She has acknowledged using her music as a means to process the difficult emotions she experienced and to ‘lay my truth on the table’.
No one knew what was happening in my life, the mother-of-two said. So I entered the studio, wept for two hours, and then said, “Let’s make some music.”
In other news, Lily recently hinted that she had patched things up with her ex-husband during a new interview, stating she doesn’t seek ‘revenge’ against him. During a conversation with Interview magazine, Lily expressed that her feelings about their marriage breakdown have changed since she first wrote the record last December.
When questioned about whether the new album was a “revengeance tour,” Lily responded, “It isn’t. I mean, I only wrote this record in December, and now I feel incredibly differently about it overall. We all experience breakups, which is always bloody brutal. However, I don’t believe you’ll write about it while you’re in it that frequently.
She continued, “That’s what makes this record so enjoyable; it’s viscerally like going through the motions.” I was actually trying to process things at the time, which is great for the album, but I don’t now feel confused or angry. I don’t need retribution.
