After all the suffering Lily Allen endured, including losing her child and dealing with
a stalker for seven years, the singer is finally doing better with herself and in her personal
life.
She married Stranger Things’ star David Harbour almost two years ago, but not without
help from her two daughters.
They’ve been engaged for a while, when her little ones “subtly” convinced the lovebirds
to get on with it!
Today, we’re looking into this new low-key hot married couple.
Lily Allen wasn’t always sure that she would be able to bounce back from what haunted her.
Some of it the result of tragic luck, while some she attributed to her own “self-destructive”
behavior.
“Like most women I know, I juggle a lot — work, children, family, money, running
a household, steering my own ship,” Allen said.
“But I haven’t always managed.
I’ve fucked up a good deal.
I can be a fuck-up.
You’ll see.”
In her case, the fucking up involved self-medicating with substances and trying to fill a void
with paid female escorts while she was on tour — and still married.
Lily doesn’t consider herself an alcoholic or recovering addict but acknowledges that
she suffers from depression.
The breakup of her four-year marriage to Sam Cooper was painful, but they ultimately ended
up as friends, with the two of them sharing custody of their girls, Ethel May and Marnie
Rose.
It was other trauma in her life — experiencing harassment in the music business, being bullied
and humiliated by the press, dealing with a stalker for seven years — that broke her
heart.
Meanwhile, the stillbirth of her son, George, after she contracted a viral infection when
she was 6 months pregnant, left her with PTSD.
“It was horrendous and something I would not wish on my worst enemy,” she said back
in 2014.
“It’s something that I still haven’t dealt with…
But it’s not something that you get over.”
But instead of dealing with it, she continued to run from it, leading to much of the self-destructive
behavior.
Ultimately, Lily felt that she couldn’t truly move forward without chronicling her
experiences as she saw fit.
Eventually, working out the stuff in her head and putting it on paper left her more open
to future possibilities than she’d been in a while.
Asked if she felt more confident in the wake of finishing the book, Allen replied, “I
don’t know if I feel more confident.
I just have a better sense of myself.
Fame is great,” she continued, “but if that is what you want, then try to find out
more about yourself before you get there — because if you don’t have a strong sense of self
when suddenly everybody else has opinions of you, that can be a struggle.”
At the time, she was dating Dan London and said she was in “a good place,” but that
relationship fizzled out after about three years together.
The singer was happy to be on her own, coming into her own in her personal and her professional
life.
As much as it was great, Lily wasn’t about to stay single for a long time.
In August 2019, she caught a performance at Piccadilly Theater in London with David Harbour.
The couple was spotted enjoying a night out in London, dining together before leaving
in the same cab.
A bit later, a fan spotted Harbour and Allen attending a boxing match together in London.
“When on earth did this happen!?”
the fan wrote, captioning a picture of the two laughing together.
“I’m baffled!
Hahaaa #LilyAllen Thought I knew all the gossip!”
A few more sightings and her attendance at the SNL after-party that the actor hosted
that October confirmed that they were dating.
During one of the show’s skits, which had David wearing a muscle tee that revealed his
arms, Lily took to Instagram to snap a close-up of the Stranger Things actor’s muscles.
“Mine,” she captioned the now-deleted photo.
Harbour put the icing on that cake by posting a screenshot on Instagram of a tabloid story
that claimed Allen looked “downcast”, making “a rare appearance” without her
boyfriend (just the sort of headlines she loves) and quipping in the caption,
“Looks like SOMEONE had to take a walk around the block alone because she sucks at mortal
kombat.
#crybaby.”
Say hello to a red carpet official couple!
The pair made their debut during the 26th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards, where Allen
donned a stunning gown in red and pink.
Meanwhile, Harbour looked dashing in a classic black suit.
In 2020, naturally, they socially distanced together along with her little girls.
Allen threw Harbour a 45th birthday party with cake and cupcakes that had dinosaur-topped
toothpicks popping out.
He then started celebrating her 35th birthday a couple of days early with a Venus by Fleur
box of red roses, with an L made out of white roses in the middle of the arrangement.
They made the most of their summer, taking the kids on a family vacation to Europe, including
stops in Italy and Croatia.
But all roads were leading to Las Vegas.
E! News confirmed through public records that David and Lily tied the knot on Sept. 7.
Although the pair tried to keep their union hush-hush, the news leaked after they obtained
their marriage license.
“Clearly what happens in Vegas does not stay in Vegas,” the actor said.
Harbour shared photos of the moment with a silly caption.
“In a wedding officiated by the king himself, the people’s princess wed her devoted, low-born,
but kind credit card holder in a beautiful ceremony lit by the ashen skies courtesy of
a burning state miles away in the midst of a global pandemic,” Harbour wrote at the
time.
Appearing on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Harbour opened up about how her two kids led him to decide
to marry the British singer.
They got engaged right before the pandemic.
Then the pandemic hit, and nothing was happening.
Allen’s daughters struggled with Harbour’s place in their family before the wedding.
And one day they were riding bikes out in the country, trying to figure out what to
do for the next year or however long it would take.
The little one was riding along, and she was going like, “David, Dad, David, Dad.
Because the ‘d’ got her confused,” he noted.
And the older one got very upset with that, which is understandable, says the actor, and
was like, “He’s not our dad!
He’s not our dad!’”
And the younger one was like, “Well, what is he?
He’s kind of our dad.’
She’s like, ‘No, he’s not.’
‘He’s kind of our stepdad.’
‘No, he’s not.’
And she goes, ‘What is he?’
And she goes, ‘He’s just some guy in our lives!’”
The moment was a wake-up call for Harbour.
The Stranger things star revealed that the girls still sometimes jokingly refer to him
as “some guy in our lives,” but he gushed that it is his “favorite thing I’ve ever
been called.”
Are they planning to have more kids?
When asked about expanding her family, the singer said she’d wait a few years before
getting pregnant again.
“I’m in a really good place.
I don’t know if I’d mess with my hormones at this particular point,” she said.
David, though, can’t help but speak of his love for Marnie and Ethel, who he credits
with changing his life.
“Of course I love it,” he said.
“And I never really wanted to have kids.
And I get it now, why everybody has kids.
You love them more than you could ever love yourself, and I never thought that was possible
with anyone; I love myself a lot.
But it’s such a beautiful thing.”
And being thrust into this family role not only changed his views on fatherhood but made
him feel “every cliché from every sitcom you’ve ever heard.”
However, Harbour has his wife to thank not only for introducing him to the joys of married
life with kids but also for getting him involved as an ambassador.
David noted the importance of giving back amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic by saying,
“It’s very important in these times when almost as a world, we were forced to come
together.
And I think if that doesn’t prove to us that we’re all in the same boat together,
I don’t know what will.”
In September 2021, Lily and David celebrated their first wedding anniversary.
She shared a carousel of now-deleted photos and videos on Instagram to commemorate their
first year as a married couple.
“1 year down with this guy.
Happy Anniversary baby @dkharbour,” Allen wrote on Instagram.
“I prefer my life with you in it.
You can stay.”
Well, David Harbour and Lily Allen are staying in OUR lives, that’s for sure.
Whether with TV and music or their lovely outings as a family, or both, we’re hoping
to see more of them in the coming years.
We wish the couple nothing but happiness and joy.
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