The two married in 2020, and news of their separation arose at the start of the year amid rumours of cheating on his part. Allen then revealed that she went into a treatment centre to deal with the “emotional turmoil”, and said that her new album was inspired by her “deep-rooted issues with rejection and abandonment” after a divorce.
Now, Williams has shared his love for the record – saying that he has been listening to it non-stop. He took to Instagram and shared a shirt he designed, which made a nod to the ‘West End Girl’ song ‘Madeline’. That track saw Allen construct a fictional character by the name of ‘Madeline’, who she implies had an affair with Harbour.
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Williams wrote: “Been making a bunch of T-Shirt ideas the last few days… this ‘Madeline’ one references a track from Lily Allen’s new album. It’s been out a couple of weeks now and I think about it every day.”
“I honestly can’t remember the last time an album stole my thoughts like this. It’s like Black Mirror meets Smash Hits,” he said, making a nod to the dystopian television series by Charlie Brooker and the vintage British pop magazine. “And by that I mean; it’s insanely good, unsettling, and might have just predicted the next five years of pop culture.”
In the song ‘Madeline’, Allen reads out what appears to be a voice note from Madeline to the actor, and adds: “I can’t trust anything that comes out of your mouth / I’m not convinced that he didn’t fuck you in our house.”
