After Lily Allen Made Some Pretty Pointed Comments About Men Preferring Younger Women, David Harbour Has Broken His Silence On Their Split

Earlier this year, it was revealed thatLily AllenandDavid Harbourhadsplitafter four years of marriage — and it’s fair to say that the news wasn’t exactly a surprise for fans, considering the couple’s relationship had been at the center of tabloid speculation since before Christmas.

While David has kept a low profile throughout all of this, he did acknowledge his and Lily’s split in a new interview withGQ— where he admitted that he doesn’t want to comment on it so as not to encourage “a salacious shitshow of humiliation.”

In the profile, journalist Hayley Campbell writes of theStranger Thingsstar: “There’s also his personal life, which has become an intense interest of the tabloids with the end of his relationship with pop star Lily Allen. ‘Oh boy,’ he says, looking at me warily across the table when I bring it up. He orders another black coffee.”

David eventually told her: “I’m protective of the people and the reality of my life. There’s no use in that form of engaging [with tabloid news] because it’s all based on hysterical hyperbole.”

“It’s all just ego,” he told GQ. “It seems kind of silly to say this, but the art that I’m creating is aboutyou. It’s not about me. It’s about your experience of life. We get hung up on [the person themselves], and I think we get lost in the idea of, like, what it’s really about. And I think, for me, it’s dangerous, too, to get lost in the personality in any way.”

“Whether [the attention is] good or bad, it’s the same thing,” David explained. “It’s the same feeling: it’s this feeling of grasping and permanence. It’s this feeling of like,Oh, now they love me. So do you like me now? Do you like me now? And what about now? And it’s, oh, now they hate me. Well, you hate me now. Do you hate me now?It’s, like, whatever. I’m human. I’m working through stuff.”

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