Gwyneth Paltrow has thrown her support behind Lily Allen, after the singer laid bare how she’d been cheated on by her ex-husband David Harbour.
The singer, 40, has laid bare the actor’s infidelity in her new album West End Girl, after the pair split in December.
Following the album’s release, Gwyneth took to Instagram Stories to laud Lily’s return to music, posting a screenshot of the record’s Spotify listing.
She captioned the post: ‘This album is a masterpiece.’
Lily previously shared how she and Gwyneth crossed paths in the midst of her struggles with alcohol addiction, with the actress stepping in to help her when she became unconscious at Kate Hudson’s Halloween party.
While also detailing the encounter in her memoir My Thoughts Exactly, she said: ‘I was very, very drunk and I head-butted something behind Orlando Bloom and knocked myself out.’
Gwyneth Paltrow has thrown her support behind Lily Allen, after the singer laid bare how she’d been cheated on by her ex-husband David Harbour
Lily went on to tell E!: ‘Then Chris Martin, who is a friend of mine, and Gwyneth, who is a close friend of my mom, drove me home. He [Chris] left a Post-it note on my fridge just saying, ”Give me a call tomorrow.” I did.’
‘We went for lunch and he said, ‘I don’t think you’re in a great place right now, Lily, are you? Here’s the number of someone that can help.’ They [Chris and Gwyneth] are great people.’
The fallout from David and Lily’s split is revealed in explicit and brutally honest lyrics, where Lily recalls discovering he had cheated on her by finding messages on his phone.
Lily references a mistress called Madeline, who is apparently a construct of several people, ands seemingly lies at the heart of the issue between her and David.
The star has caused a huge stir with her record West End Girl, which details the breakdown of her marriage to the Stranger Things star.
Lily and David’s troubling relationship started off as a dream come true for the unlucky in love singer.
A year after they met, the pair wed in Las Vegas joined only by Ethel and Marnie and Lily shared pictures of her daughters celebrating by eating hamburgers outside the chapel with their new step-father.
But, as she alleges in the ‘tell-all’ album, her landing a role in 2:22 A Ghost Story on the West End in 2021 cemented the beginning of the end, as he was unsupportive and asked for an open marriage, but eventually ‘broke the rules’ and cheated on her.
The singer has laid bare the actor’s infidelity in her new album West End Girl, after the pair split in December
Following the album’s release, Gwyneth took to Instagram Stories to laud Lily’s return to music, posting a screenshot of the record’s Spotify listing
Lily, who has two children with her ex-husband Sam Cooper, sold her 17th-century home in Cranham, Gloucestershire, for £4.2 million in 2016 after being sued by an ex-tour manager for more than £100,000.
‘I had my house of dreams.’ she later reminisced. ‘I did it up so nice, it was my life project, the place where I was going to raise my children.’
She added: ‘I’m a firm believer in paying tax. But I got sued. I had to pay him off, with the money I’d put aside for my tax.
‘I tried to work out a deal with HMRC to pay them back in instalments, but they said no. It was absolutely soul-destroying, and a real lesson in life.’
The record comes after a turbulent time in Lily’s life following the breakdown of her marriage last December after she accused David of having multiple affairs including a his three-year affair with a younger costume designer.
The Mail on Sunday has exclusively revealed the identity of ‘Madeline’ and spoke to her from her home in the US.
Lily’s fans have said the song is a modern-day equivalent of Beyonce’s ‘Becky with the good hair,’ which featured on a song called Sorry, a cheating diss track from her 2016 album Lemonade.
Meanwhile Dolly Parton’s 1973 hit Jolene sees the country star sing: ‘Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene/ I’m begging of you, please don’t take my man’.
Lily’s new record, West End Girl, has drawn attention for her explicit and brutally honest lyrics about the breakdown of her four-year marriage to David, which ended last December after she accused the actor of having multiple affairs.
The lyrics see Lily appearing to suggest the couple had an open arrangement in regards to sex, as long as it was discrete, with paid strangers and not based on emotional connection.
She sings: ‘How long has it been going on? Is it just sex or is there emotion?/ He told me it would stay in hotel rooms, never be out in the open.
The chorus reads: ‘We had an arrangement/ Be discrete and don’t be blatant. There had to be payment/ It had to be with strangers/ But you’re not a stranger, Madeline.’
Speaking to The Times, Lily seemingly confirmed that ‘agreed-upon boundaries were not adhered to’ in her relationship with David, while addressing how apps had made cheating easier.
She said: ‘There are usually agreed-upon boundaries in relationships. But whether those boundaries are adhered to or not is becoming a grey area all of a sudden.
‘Dating apps make people disposable and that leads to the idea that if you are not happy, there’s so much more to choose from — right in your pocket.
The fallout from David and Lily’s split is revealed in explicit and brutally honest lyrics, where Lily recalls discovering he had cheated on her by finding messages on his phone
Lily famously uncovered David’s infidelity when she discovered his profile on celebrity dating app, Raya, and ‘joined the dots’.
The pop star joined the app herself, pretending to be ‘looking for women’ – and allegedly found that her now ex-husband had already set up a dating profile.
Speaking to the publication, she detailed how she believed dating apps were making people ‘disposable’ and changing conventional ideas about monogamy.
Her split from David led Lily to check into a £8,000-a-week trauma treatment centre to focus on her mental health.
And she admitted that she has used her music as a way to work through the dark feelings she was having and to ‘lay my truth on the tab.
