David Harbour was reportedly involved in a kerfuffle over the weekend involving a hat.
The Stranger Things star, 50, allegedly snatched a man’s hat at a gastropub in Encinitas, California on Saturday before the individual in question eventually retrieved his hat, TMZ reports.
Video apparently exists capturing the mishap, however TMZ was only allowed to watch the clip and none of it was published on their website.
The Daily Mail has contacted representatives for Harbour and the bar where the incident is said to have occurred, the Encinitas Ale House, for comment but have not yet heard back.
The video reportedly captures Harbour entering the Encinitas Ale House before emerging shortly thereafter, running outdoors with a white cap in hand.
The actor – who earlier this year split from wife Lily Allen – then reportedly shouted as he looked over his shoulder: ‘C’mon, dude, f****** get me!’
David Harbour was reportedly involved in a kerfuffle over the weekend involving a hat; pictured December 11
A man is then reportedly seen walking outside of the bar, frustrated, and saying, ‘What the f*** did I do to you, dude?’
A slew of people were then seen leaving the bar to catch the incident, and a female voice could be heard imploring, ‘Don’t get into a fight!’
As she says that, the man returns to the bar with his hat. No physical altercation is said to have occurred between Harbour and the man and they parted ways.
An eyewitness at the bar told TMZ it all started after the man with the hat saw Harbour outside the bar and went outside to say hello.
Harbour was with a friend who told the bar patron they were going to meet several woman, however the actor apparently suggested they head to the man’s house instead – a response that perplexed him.
The man went back inside the bar and Harbour is said to have entered the establishment shortly thereafter. According to TMZ, Harbour grabbed the hat and quickly left.
Eyewitnesses told the site that Harbour ‘spiked’ the hat onto the floor, inquired about the Iraq War, before getting emotional and dropping down to a knee to pray.
A source told TMZ: ‘David has always been honest about managing his bipolar disorder. Wouldn’t be surprised if that’s what he’s dealing with here after working non-stop all year and having his personal life under public scrutiny. That would be stressful for anyone but even more so for someone who is bipolar.’
Harbour was diagnosed with bipolar disorder in his 20s but didn’t speak publicly about his struggles until he found success as Jim Hopper in Stranger Things because he worried about being viewed as unreliable.
The bizarre incident involving Harbour, pictured November, was reportedly captured on video
While appearing on Marc Maron’s WTF podcast in 2019 he said: ‘As an actor, you’re worried about getting hired, but now I’m at a place where I can talk about this.
‘Also, I’m in my forties, I may as well be myself, whether I get work or not.’
Harbour hoped that by speaking candidly about his condition, he could offer support and inspiration to others going through the same struggles.
He said: ‘My biggest reason for getting into it was I imagined a mother of a kid who is taken out of school, diagnosed childhood bipolar.
‘The mother feels it’s a death sentence, that their kid will never be part of society, that they’ll always be on the couch eating pizza and, at times in my life, I was that guy.
‘So I want to say if you admire this profession, which you don’t have to, then I’m no different to that child.
Meanwhile, the actor split from wife Lily Allen earlier this year
‘That’s what I want to share with those people because they suffer like my parents suffered.’
The alleged hat incident comes after Harbour and Allen split following four years of marriage, with the songstress’ new album West End Girl recounting the collapse of their union in painfully raw detail.
At its emotional core sits Madeline, a blistering track devoted entirely to the woman Allen believes her husband was involved with during their marriage.
In it, Allen sings of confronting the woman directly by text, asking: ‘How long has it been going on? Is it just sex or is there emotion?’
The lyrics sparked a frenzied online hunt among Allen’s millions of fans desperate to identify ‘Madeline’ – or, as the singer snarled in lyric form, ‘Who the f*** is Madeline?’
Allen’s new album West End Girl recounts in painfully raw detail the collapse of their union
Despite Allen claiming the name was a pseudonym, the Mail on Sunday exclusively revealed Madeline to be costume designer Natalie Tippett.
Tippett has since broken her silence and hit back at the singer in a series of Instagram posts shared over the weekend.
She denied claims of a long-term affair and said she felt ‘extremely violated’ by the way she has been portrayed by Allen.
‘I did not have a three year affair with anyone,’ she wrote. ‘I’m unsure why this person wants so badly to pit people against me or create this narrative that we both know is false based on the actual messages that I have saved between us. The same ones that have now been referenced in a song without my consent.
‘I don’t weaponize women against women for the behaviour of men, especially not in an open relationship. I’m wishing her all the success, money, healing and happiness and whatever else she’s seeking through this.’
The 34-year-old single mother said she is ‘aware of the repercussions speaking out’ may cause, but that it couldn’t be worse than ‘having to watch someone profit off painful lies’.
‘I’m a human being not a character someone created,’ she added.
At the time, Tippett appeared reluctant to hit back, or to turn her sex life into a public debate.
‘Of course I’ve heard the song,’ she said at the time. ‘But I have a family and things to protect. I have a two-and-a-half-year-old daughter, and I understand this is going on. It’s a little bit scary for me.’
It is understood that Tippett met 50-year-old Harbour, who is 16 years her senior, while filming the Netflix movie We Have A Ghost in 2021, on location in New Orleans.
Harbour and Allen wed in Las Vegas in 2020
Harbour was the movie’s leading man, while Tippett worked in the costume department. Their affair reportedly began shortly after shooting started.
But even after filming ended, he reportedly flew Tippett to his home in Atlanta, Georgia, as the affair continued behind Allen’s back.
Harbour had married Allen, who has two daughters, Ethel, 13, and 12-year-old Marnie from her previous marriage to Sam Cooper, in Las Vegas the year before.
The couple, who had met on the celebrity dating app Raya, had disabled their profiles following a whirlwind romance.
But Allen decided to re-join the app to check on her husband’s activity and discovered he had a secret profile which had been active for around a month.
A source said at the time: ‘Lily was looking for women that were on Raya and cross-referencing them with women David follows on Instagram to try to figure out who he was seeing.’
Since the split, Allen has moved back to London and has bought an ex-council flat in a building near where she grew up.
She said: ‘I have wanted to live in this building since I was a baby, it’s been a dream of mine forever and finally a flat became available in here and I was in a position to buy it and I did.’