Lily Allen’s shock album is said to be about David Harbour

Talk about living “upside down.”

It’s not often that a celebrity airs their dirtiest clothes in public. But singer Lily Allen shocked everyone last Friday with her new album, “West End Girl,” which seems to offer everything you need to know — and much more — about why. Her marriage to Stranger Things star David Harbour He went off the rails.

“I found a shoebox full of handwritten letters from broken-hearted women,” she sings in “Pu–y Palace.”“, a song about visiting a secret partner’s apartment. “The sheets pulled off the bed… Long black hair, probably from the night before / Duane Reade suitcase with tied handles / Sex toys… lube inside / Hundreds of Trojans… How could I fall into your double life? “

Social media went into a frenzy over the weekend, with cyber sleuths deconstructing the lyrics and Gwyneth Paltrow calling the recording a “masterpiece.”

Page Six has reached out to Harbor for comment. He has yet to speak publicly about the record, which earned the “The Fear” singer the best reviews she’s received in years.

“The thing about Lily, what makes her so special, is that she’s a survivor,” a London music insider who worked with Allen told The Post, adding, “Lily is not an easy person, she’ll be the first to tell you that.”

Allen, 40, has been cautious over the past few days, saying the words are a “mixture of fact and fiction.”

She and Harbour, 50, met on dating app Raya in 2020 and confirmed their split last February — two years after their Cobble Hill home was featured in a much-shared Architectural Digest story and video.

This home has just been listed for sale for nearly $8 million. Allen begins the album by singing about the fairytale of creating a house in a Brooklyn brownstone that “I could never afford.” In the song title, Things start to go wrong when she gets a role in a play in London’s West End.

In August 2021, Allen played Jenny in the film “2:22: A Ghost Story.”

The song presents a one-sided conversation in which her partner seems to want an open marriage while she is away – which she reluctantly agrees to because “I want you to be happy.”

In real life, Allen posted on social media a photo of the letter Harbor sent with flowers on her first appearance.

“My ambitious wife, these are the flowers of bad luck,” he wrote, “because if you get a good rating in this play, you will get all kinds of prizes, and I will be miserable, your loving husband.”

Allen said Sunday Times This week: “There are usually agreed-upon boundaries in relationships. But whether those boundaries are adhered to or not, they’ve suddenly become a gray area. Dating apps are making people disposable… There’s so much to choose from — right in your pocket.”

On “Madeleine,” Allen sings, “We had an arrangement / Be discreet and don’t be blatant / Money had to be paid / Had to be with strangers.”

She then details how that agreement was violated when the song’s partner got involved with a woman who was not a stranger — and sings in “Tennis” to find a text exchange with that woman on her partner’s phone.

It was named the Daily Mail Real life Madeleine as Natalie Tippetta fashion designer from New Orleans who reportedly met Harbor in 2021 while filming the Netflix movie “We Have A Ghost.”

Tippett told The Mail: “Of course I’ve heard the song. But I have a family and things to protect. I have a two-and-a-half-year-old daughter, and I understand that this is happening. It’s a bit scary for me.”

When asked if she knew Allen would mention her text messages, Tippett replied: “Yes, I don’t feel comfortable talking about that right now.”

Meanwhile, Allen insisted that “Madeleine” is a fictional character “created by others.”

“There are things on record that I went through during my marriage, but that doesn’t mean it’s all evangelical,” she told the Sunday Times.

This isn’t the first time the British singer has spoken about her life, having written – both in songs and in her 2018 memoir – about her broken first marriage to property developer Sam Cooper, with whom she shares daughters Ethel, 13, and Marnie, 12; The stillbirth of her son in 2010; Her struggle with addiction and eating disorders.

Her breakup with Harbor led Allen to fear she would relapse. “It got really, really, really bad,” she told Vogue. “The feelings of despair I was feeling were so strong. The last time I felt something like that, drugs and alcohol were my way out, so it was painful to sit with those (feelings) and not use them.”

She placed herself in a residential facility after feeling “like I wanted to die.”

In April, GQ asked Harbor about rumors that he or Allen had strayed into the marriage. He said at the time: “There is no point in this form of dealing (with tabloid news) because it is all based on hysterical exaggeration.”

Allen recorded the new album in just 16 days, and is now enjoying the kind of acclaim she hasn’t seen since the early days of her career following her 2006 debut with “Alright Still.”

“She felt like Universal (her old music label) didn’t treat her well,” the insider said. “But the love for this album is crazy.”

The singer has not yet finalized her divorce from Harbor, although she refers to him in interviews as her ex-husband. “Tell All,” she said when asked about the album. Perfect magazine: “If what you’re doing isn’t provocative, what’s the point? If it’s not scary, what’s the point? I’m not here to be humble.”