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Glamorous Trash: A Celebrity Memoir Podcast

Lily Allen’s Memoir and West End Girl Breakdown

Glamorous Trash: A Celebrity Memoir Podcast

Chelsea Devantez

Society & Culture, Arts, Books

4.62K Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2025

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

Chelsea is joined by Cinemile host Cathy Cullen, cookie correspondent Caitie Rosen, and producer Kristina to break down Lily Allen’s memoir “My Thoughts Exactly” and parse through the contradictions, confessions, and HOT TEA on her viral album "West End Girl." They unpack Lily’s unfiltered writing about her marriage to “Stranger Things” star David Harbour, the Architectural Digest videos, the open-marriage-to-divorce pipeline, the "Pussy Palace" mojo dojo casa house, the Zoe Kravitz of it all, and a memoir vs a memoir in music. A content warning: This episode contains discussions of sensitive topics, including substance use, disordered eating, sexual assault, as well as ableist and transphobic language. Take care while listening and find helpful resources here. Join the cookie community: ⁠Become a member of the Patreon Follow Chelsea: Instagram @chelseadevantez Show Notes: The research doc referenced in the episode Lily Allen and David Harbour’s Architectural Digest David Harbour’s Architectural Digest Where to find our guests: Cathy Cullen: Cinemile Podcast Cathy’s Instagram Cinemile’s Instagram Caitie Rosen: Instagram Kristina Lopez: Instagram *** Glamorous Trash is all about going high and low at the same time— Glam and Trash. We recap and book club celebrity memoirs, deconstruct pop culture, and sometimes, we cry! If you've ever referenced Mariah Carey in therapy... then this is the podcast for you. Thank you to our sponsors: Quince  - Go to quince.com/glamorous for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns.  Libro.fm - Click here to get 2 audiobooks for the price of 1 with your first month of membership using code TRASH. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to Glamourous Trash. This is a podcast that bookclubs viral articles, celebrity memoirs, and trashy discourse to elevate your life. I'm your host, Chelsea Devontes. I'm a TV writer, comedian, filmmaker, author, and sometimes I'm in stuff too. And today, we are book clubbing Lily Allen's 2018 memoir titled My Thoughts Exactly,

0:23.7

and what I consider her latest memoir in the music, her new album, West End Girl.

0:30.2

Now, we are going to thread some needles, tie some knots, untie some knots.

0:34.7

We're going to go deep.

0:35.6

We're pulling in highlights from the internet discourse that has become its own additional reading,. We're going to go deep. We're pulling in highlights from the internet discourse

0:38.1

that has become its own additional reading, and we're going in hard. Now, Lily Allen, for anyone

0:44.3

who doesn't know, is a huge UK pop star who broke out in 2006, early 2000s. She's had a career,

0:50.9

you know, this whole time put out many albums. I know the British cookies relate to Lily very differently than the American cookies. And I think it's fair to say this

0:58.7

album is a comeback and it is getting global attention. And if I could give a headline to this

1:04.5

episode, it would be something a cookie DM'd me once, which is, you know, a bitch contains multitudes. And we're going to be getting

1:14.0

into all of those multitudes and the surrounding multitudes, like the architectural digest tour

1:21.8

of her ex-husband's bachelor pad and, you know, how his apartment had two copies of John

1:27.4

Quixote that had, you know, never been apartment had two copies of John Quixote that had,

1:28.3

you know, never been touched, which is an important detail. And so, listen, we're getting into all

1:33.3

of it. I'm very worried this episode will take three hours. How will we ever cut it down? And before we

1:38.6

dive in, please note, I want you to take care while listening. We have warnings for substance

1:44.0

use discussion,

1:45.2

assault. We're also going to be pulling some language from the tabloids and the book when discussing

1:50.0

Lily's story. So I want to trigger warning for some ablest and transphobic language that are part

1:55.2

of a larger story we get into. So always take care while listening. Let's dive in. My guest today are niche internet correspondent Katie Rosen,

2:16.9

who today will also, I think, be

2:20.1

the attorney defending open relationships and non-monogamy. Hi, Katie. Hello. Katie, is that fair to

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