Lily Allen has revealed her two daughters have suffered the same pain she did amid the messy breakdown of her marriage to David Harbour.
The singer, 40, stunned fans last month as she released her new album West End Girl, which details the brutal honesty of her relationship to Stranger Things actor David, 50, whom she married for four years after meeting on dating app Raya.
In a new interview, Lily has now made rare comments about her two children Ethel, 13, and Marnie, 12, who she shares with her first husband, builder Sam Cooper.
Speaking on CBS Mornings, the Smile hitmaker said her girls are ‘doing great’ but did admit, ‘all of the pain that I’ve been through in the past year, they’ve been through too.’
Lily explained: ‘I think if I was to dedicate the album to anyone it would be to my girls mainly because of all the pain.
‘One thing I did want to do was show my kids that you can use that pain and harness it and turn it into something else and I think I’ve done that.’
Lily Allen has revealed her two daughters have suffered the same pain she did amid the messy breakdown of her marriage to David Harbour
The singer, 40, stunned fans last month as she released her new album West End Girl, which details the brutal honesty of her relationship to actor David, 50 (pictured filming Evil Genius)
Lily revealed her teenage daughters are ‘excited’ to be joining her on tour next year as they have never seen her perform on a large scale.
The actress explained she is currently planning the dates around her children’s school holidays so they can bring friends and is looking forward to them experiencing the tour with her.
She said: ‘My kids have never [seen me tour], they’re about to be 13 and 14 and last time I was on tour was 2018 and they were considerably smaller than they are now.
‘They don’t really remember me being on stage and they certainly weren’t there for the early parts of my career.
‘This is all new to them and I am so excited. We are planning our touring schedule around their holiday and them being able to come on the bus and bring friends and I mean, it makes me want to cry talking about it cause they’re so excited and so am I.
‘I can’t wait to have them there and it is as much for them as it is for me.’
The tour, which comes in conjunction with 20 years since the release of her debut album Alright, Still, will see the star play the entirety of West End Girl.
Arena locations will include London, Manchester, Glasgow and Nottingham, while Lily is also set for high profile performances on Saturday Night Live in December and at Mighty Hoopla in London in May.
In a new interview, Lily has now made rare comments about her two children Ethel, 13, and Marnie, 12, who she shares with her first husband, builder Sam Cooper (pictured 2011)
The Smile hitmaker said her girls are ‘doing great’ but did admit, ‘all of the pain that I’ve been through in the past year, they’ve been through too’
Lily said: ‘If I was to dedicate the album to anyone it would be to my girls because of all the pain. One thing I did want to do was show my kids that you can use that pain and turn it into something else’; pictured with David in 2020
Meanwhile actor David was spotted carrying a coffee on set in New Jersey while filming upcoming crime movie Evil Genius.
The New York-born star looked almost unrecognisable as he made his way to film the new thriller which is being directed by Friends star Courtney Cox.
David donned padding that made him appear much heavier as well as sporting gray hair, a beard and dark framed glasses.
Lily stunned fans last month with the release of West End Girl, which shed a disarmingly honest light on her marital woes – from the discovery of her husband’s ‘P***y Palace’ to his illicit relationship with ‘Madeline’.
The heartbreaking album opens with Lily revealing David had requested the couple embark on an open marriage – however with stipulations in place.
She goes on to expose David’s extra-curricular and rule-flouting activities and also shares a number of sordid details of his affair and their union, including the discovery of an abundance of sex toys and condoms at his ‘P***y Palace’.
While many of her confessions are explicit, the star also takes to hinting, including alluding to prostitution on track five, Madeline, in which she states David was allowed to sleep with other women ‘as long as there was payment’.
Madeline is a constant thread of the album, as Lily appears to be naming the woman involved in David’s affair and reads out a message exchange, which sees Lily attempt to investigate whether he was emotionally cheating rather than just having sex.
West End Girl is her first in seven years and was recorded in just 10 days, in the wake of her devastating split from the Stranger Things actor, 50, in December after Lily discovered his three-year affair and slew of infidelities.
Lily added that her teenage daughters are ‘excited’ to be joining her on tour next year as they have never seen her perform on a large scale; pictured 2024
Meanwhile actor David was spotted carrying a coffee on set in New Jersey while filming upcoming crime movie Evil Genius
The New York-born star looked almost unrecognisable as he made his way to film the new thriller which is being directed by Friends star Courtney Cox
The album has been met with uproarious praise from fans, with many invested in the star’s pain but also her many witty takes on her lowest points.
Speaking CBS’ Anthony Mason, she said of the response to the album: ‘Firstly I’m overwhelmed and massively grateful.’
Having shot to fame via MySpace with her 2006 album Alright, Still, Lily spoke about how the reception to West End Girl has been similar in being totally online.
She said: ‘My first album, my success was born from a website called MySpace and it felt like a moment in time that you couldn’t recreate and I certainly haven’t felt anything like what that felt like until now. It sort of feels quite similar in a way…
‘I guess because it’s happening virally. I haven’t heard the songs in a shop, I haven’t seen somebody sing back the lyrics to me yet and that’s been weird. Great but weird. It’s highly entertaining, very overstimulating.’
When asked what she thinks about what’s being said, she responded: ‘I mean it’s amazing, I write music for myself to make myself feel better and when something connects with people, it’s affirming , it’s validating…
‘The thing then I was experiencing in my life at the time, I wasn’t really getting that validation for whatever reason…
‘So to now have people listen to this record and go “Yeah, that’s really messed up, that’s really painful, I can’t imagine what it would be like to go through something like that”, it’s like ok’.
