Lily Allen is admittedly struggling with dating following her split from David Harbour.
“The dating scene is much harder as a 40-year-old woman with two teenage children than it is for a 34-year-old woman,” the singer-songwriter — who shares daughters Ethel, 13, and Marnie, 12, with first husband Sam Cooper — told Perfect Magazine in an interview about her forthcoming album, “West End Girl.”
“It’s bitterly disappointing.”
According to Allen, there’s “an element of humiliation and shame around” reentering the dating scene because “the world doesn’t portray women of [her] age as being desirable.”
She likened her love life to the experience of “climbing up a mountain.”
While she knows she doesn’t “have to get involved with” anyone romantically, something inside her tells her otherwise.
“Being in a relationship is not the answer to all of my problems. In fact, it’s probably the opposite,” the actress confessed.
Even though it’s “quite hard to achieve in this current climate,” she said being with someone “feels like the easier option.”
Allen explained that she “grew up in a really unstable household” with parents who were not “particularly present.” So, as an adult, she “craved” feeling “centered” in her relationships. In fact, she went so far as to call herself “codependent.”
On her album, which she wrote on the heels of her separation from Harbour, Allen sings about the demise of her marriage.
Unable to discuss specific details of the breakup, she did tell the magazine, “Two people who were once together are not together. And that’s really sad. It’s hard. It’s hard for me to not have my person, you know? … I thought it was done. I thought it was happily ever after, you know?”
Regarding her aforementioned insecurities, she added, “I don’t think that my previous relationship has helped me with any of that.”
News broke in February that Allen and Harbour, 50, were going their separate ways after four and a half years of marriage, with sources revealing at the time that their relationship had been “crumbling.”
Allen and the “Stranger Things” star met on a dating app prior to making their red carpet debut as a couple in October 2019.
The former lovebirds wed in Las Vegas the following September in a ceremony officiated by an Elvis Presley impersonator.
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