Lily Allen has spoken about doing up her home in New York – saying she thought her neighbours would “hate” them for putting them through two years of renovations.
The singer and actress, 37, married Stranger Things star David Harbour in 2020 – and the couple have been doing up their New York home ever since.
Pictures of the house, in the Brooklyn area of the city, recently featured in Architectural Digest.
But according to The Mail, Allen – who is currently starring in Sky comedy Dreamland – thought the disruption of doing up a home would rile her neighbours – but thankfully she couldn’t have been more wrong.
She revealed her neighbours welcomed her family with a hamper.
She said: “We’ve been doing the house up for two years and we have these neighbours who we thought, ‘They’re going to hate us because we’ve been making all this noise.’
“But they came over with a huge hamper. It was the nicest thing anyone could do.”
Allen tied the knot with American actor Harbour in a Las Vegas ceremony in 2020.
The Smile and Not Fair singer recently revealed she first met 47-year-old Harbour on members-only dating app Raya.
Harbour is best known for his role as Jim Hopper in hit Netflix science fiction drama Stranger Things.
Allen recently opened up about her sobriety in an interview with Glamour UK.
She has spoken openly about her experience of addiction and wrote extensively about her use of drugs and alcohol in her 2018 autobiography My Thoughts Exactly – but in the interview, she said sobriety has “changed my life immeasurably.”
Allen said: “Sobriety has just changed my life immeasurably. I don’t think I’d be married to my husband. I don’t think that my kids would be thriving in the way that they are. I don’t think that I’d have gone into finding acting and how much I enjoy that. I definitely wouldn’t be getting as much sleep.
“I go to the gym four times a week. Pretty much every aspect of my life has changed as a result of my sobriety.
“I actually don’t even know if I’d be alive if I’m honest if I hadn’t got sober.
“So that’s definitely at the top of my gratitude list when I go to bed every night is my sobriety.”
