Singer Lily Allen made her opinions on smartphones known, saying they were “evil” and that she controls the apps her husband, “Stranger Things” actor David Harbour, is allowed to access. He apparently has the same control over her phone.
“I now have a kids’ phone called Pinwheel. It has no browsing capability and no social media, but you can still have Uber and Spotify,” the “Smile” singer told U.K. based outlet Sunday Times during an interview. “My husband is the caregiver on it, so he controls what I’m allowed to have as an app on my phone.”
“I’m the controller of his as well. Because they’re made for kids, he’s my parent, and I’m his parent. ‘What’s your child’s name? David, aged 50,'” Allen added.
The British born star, 39, has been married to Harbour since 2020. She has two daughters with ex-husband Sam Cooper.
Allen went on to rail against the effects cell phones have on society as a whole.
“The creative side of my brain has been ruined by smartphones. I feel like everyone feels the same,” the singer continued. “I don’t know anyone who could possibly say that the quality of their life is improved by the presence of a smartphone.”
“I think it’s destroyed us as a species. It’s horrendous that they’re designed to be so addictive. Some of us have more addictive personalities than others. It’s evil,” Allen added.
Allen also told the outlet about how she doesn’t like how the internet has made “every comment indelible and intractable.”
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“It’s unnatural. I don’t think, as human beings, that you’re meant to share ideas and for them to be set in stone,” she said. “We are meant to evolve as people. How are you meant to do that if you’re always held to account by things that you’ve said in the past?”
“I said that 20 years ago, when I was a completely different person, hadn’t been married, didn’t have children. Of course I had a different outlook on life. Don’t hold me to that,” Allen continued.
The Grammy-nominated star previously made headlines for saying becoming a mother “ruined” her career.
“My children ruined my career. I love them and they complete me, but in terms of pop stardom, they totally ruined it,” Allen said in March, as The Daily Wire previously reported. “I get really annoyed when people say you can have it all because, quite frankly, you can’t.”
