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David Harbour says that a media report saying his Stranger Things co-star Millie Bobby Brown had filed a bullying and harassment claim partly triggered a mental health episode.
The 51-year-old actor is opening up about last year’s viral UK Daily Mail tabloid story that alleged Brown had filed “pages and pages” of claims against him before production started on the Netflix hit’s final season.
Portraying the story as false, Harbour told Variety, “I had a breakdown,” then added a laugh. He called the story’s timing — coming a week after his ex Lily Allen released her album, West End Girl, which was critical of the actor — “weird.”
“[Brown and I] worked together for 10 years during her formative teenage years, playing father and daughter,” said Harbour, who has been open about having bipolar disorder. “I don’t know if people have families and friends that you spend a lot of time with for 10 years — you occasionally get in arguments, disagreements … In families, it’s okay because you’re just in a disagreement, and then you come back together. The problem with a billion-dollar show is that there’s just hundreds of people who want to get involved.”
