The Truth About Alexa Chung And Alex Turner's Split

In July 2011, Alex Turner and Alexa Chung split after four years together, and the Mirror spoke to a source close to the situation who revealed that distance was the culprit (as it usually is). "Things haven't been going well and they haven't seemed like a couple for the past few weeks. At Glastonbury festival, they barely said a word to each other," the source told the outlet, citing the pair's hectic schedules and long distance as the nail(s) in the coffin. The source mentioned that the split was a last-ditch effort to save their friendship, and even Chung's publicist confirmed to the Mirror that the break-up was "amicable."

That same year, Turner released an EP of six songs to accompany the "Submarine" movie soundtrack, and the melancholy lyrics seemed to speak directly about his personal heartache. "It's Hard To Get Around The Wind" contains the lyric, "It might not hurt now/but it's gonna hurt soon." "Piledriver Waltz" has the refraining chorus, "You look like you've been for breakfast at the Heartbreak hotel." It doesn't take a genius to crack that code. 

Chung, for her part, dedicated an entire chapter of her memoir to Turner (whom she did call Al!), telling The Guardian in 2013, "I'm not heartbroken anymore, but I definitely was when I wrote [the book]."

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