by Stephanie SoteriouBuzzFeedBuzzFeed Staff Last year, Lily Allen took the world by storm when she released her long-awaited fifth album, West End Girl, to huge critical and commercial acclaim. Dave Benett / Getty Images As I'm sure you remember, Lily did not hold back on the 14-track record, which seemingly chronicles the messy breakdown of her marriage to Stranger Things actor David Harbour. Dia Dipasupil / Getty Images To get you up to speed, the two enjoyed a whirlwind romance before tying the knot in 2020, but it was confirmed that they had split in February 2025. While Lily did not publicly comment on their breakup at the time, it was no secret that she was struggling with her mental health in the lead-up to this announcement. Victoria Jones - Pa Images / Getty Images In January 2025, Lily took a break from her podcast, Miss Me?, after telling listeners: "I'm just really not in a good place. I know I've been talking about it for months, but I've been spiraling and spiraling and spiraling, and it's got out of control." John Nacion / Getty Images "I can't concentrate on anything except the pain that I'm going through, and it's really, really hard," she went on, also revealing that she'd had a panic attack during the podcast team's Christmas party a month earlier. Dia Dipasupil / Getty Images And during an interview with Perfect magazine ahead of West End Girl's release, Lily shared: "It was hard to make this record. It was incredibly manic, and it was emotionally traumatic." Gilbert Flores / Getty Images She went on to explain that the record was her way "of processing things" she was going through in her "private life," so when it told the unfiltered story of Lily being left heartbroken by a partner who forced her into an open relationship, fans were shocked - to say the least. Dave Benett / Getty Images While Lily never mentions David by name, and has seemingly been "prevented from discussing specifically" the "details about the demise of her recent marriage," listeners didn't struggle when it came to putting two and two together, with Lily being brazen and unapologetic as she shared some seriously NSFW details in her songs. Stefanie Keenan / Getty Images On the album, Lily recalls how her partner asked her to open up their marriage after he was seemingly left resentful of her landing an acting role in London in the summer of 2021. Despite Lily eventually agreeing that he could have sex with other women as long as they were strangers he only ever saw for sex, she was devastated to find out that he ended up having fully-fledged affairs behind her back. AZLyrics / Via azlyrics.com Lily does not hold back throughout the album, singing openly about her past battle with addiction and fighting the temptation to relapse, her struggle with her self-esteem and sense of self-worth, as well as candid confessions about her sex life. AZLyrics / Via azlyrics.com In "Sleepwalking," for example, Lily reflects on a time when her partner would not be intimate with her after he started having sex with other women. She candidly sings: "I know you've made me your Madonna / I want to be your whore / Baby, it would be my honour / Please, sir, can I have some more?" AZLyrics / Via azlyrics.com "I could preserve all of your fantasies / If only you could act them all out with me," she goes on. But it's "Pussy Palace" that is perhaps the most eyebrow-raising of the bunch, with this song following Lily as she discovers that her partner was secretly using their West Village apartment as his secret sex palace. Stuart C. Wilson / Getty Images "I found a shoebox full of handwritten letters / From brokenhearted women wishing you could have been better / Sheets pulled off the bed / Strewn all on the floor / Long black hair probably from the night before," she sings. "Duane Reade bag with the handles tied / Sex toys, butt plugs, lube inside / Hundreds of Trojans, you're so fucking broken / How'd I get caught up in your double life?" AZLyrics / Via azlyrics.com (FYI, you can read a full breakdown of the album's jaw-dropping revelations here!) Speaking to CBS Mornings last year, Lily explained that she was able to be so frank in her songs because she coincidentally had the studio time booked before her marriage fell apart towards the end of 2024. When she went into the sessions, she wrote authentically as her way of dealing with the trauma without thinking that she would ever actually share the end result with the world. CBS / Via youtube.com "At the time, I wasn't really even thinking about it as a commercial endeavor," she explained. "It was an act of desperation, actually. While I was writing it, I wasn't really sure it was going to see the light of day. Up until relatively close to its release, I was always thinking: 'Is this something I want to share with the world?'" Joseph Okpako / Getty Images Explaining why she ultimately opted to release the album, Lily said that sitting on it for 10 months was "a nightmare," sharing: "I think