Word broke this weekend that Millie Bobby Brown filed a harassment complaint against her Stranger Things co-star David Harbour. The story was first reported by The Daily Mail on Saturday, and the buzz about it is huge, possibly because it’s just a few weeks away from the final season of the show hitting Netflix.
Brown filed the complaint before they started filming season five back in January 2024. She put in “pages and pages of accusations”, according to someone who spoke to the newspaper. The complaint wasn’t sexual in nature; it was just claims of bullying and harassment.
Netflix launched an investigation that went on for months. Nobody knows what happened with that investigation because Netflix won’t say anything. Brown’s people won’t talk. Neither will David Harbour’s representatives nor the Duffer Brothers, who created the show.
Brown had someone with her on set the entire time they filmed season five. That’s not normal for actors. Having a personal representative follow you around means something serious happened, and she needed support while working.
This timing is awkward because Harbour plays Jim Hopper, the police chief who adopts Brown’s character Eleven. They have a father-daughter relationship in the show that fans have seen develop since 2016. Now, it appears Brown was uncomfortable enough that she filed an official complaint with SAG-AFTRA.
The story comes right after Harbour’s ex-wife, Lily Alle, released an album called West End Girl on 24th October 2025. The album features songs about the breakup of their marriage, some of them referencing infidelity and sex addiction.
They announced their divorce in August of 2025, but the marriage was already over by December 2024. Allen, it seems, stood by for Harbour during the Netflix investigation even as their marriage was collapsing.
Some people on social media are questioning whether this is real because Brown recently praised Harbour in an interview. Others point out she still follows him on Instagram. But that doesn’t mean much; plenty of people keep things professional when there’s bad blood.
A Netflix source told The Daily Mail they won’t let anything ruin the final season launch. The first four episodes come out on 26th November 2025, more episodes on Christmas Day, and the finale on New Year’s Eve in cinemas and on Netflix.
Stranger Things has been massive for Netflix. Season four got 286 million viewing hours in three days back in 2022. The show’s made over a billion dollars for the streaming service. There are millions of people for whom this finale has been an eternity in the making.
Brown was just 12 years old when the show began in 2016. She’s 21 now. She married Jake Bongiovi (the son of Jon Bon Jovi), and in August 2025, they adopted a baby girl. She’s also completed the Enola Holmes films and has Florence by Mills, her beauty company.
Harbour’s career took off because of Stranger Things. He’s been in Black Widow, Violent Night, and Gran Turismo. Now he’s got this complaint hanging over him as the show that made him famous is ending.
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The silence from everyone is strange. In a world where celebrities address rumours within hours on social media, nobody’s saying anything. That typically means legal reasons such as settlement agreements, investigations still ongoing, and nondisclosure clauses. For fans who have grown up with these characters since 2016, it is disillusioning.
You want the onscreen relationships to feel akin to what happens off-screen. Learning that Brown felt harassed by someone playing her father is disconcerting.
Brown and Harbour will probably do press together when the final season launches. Smile for photos. Answer questions about how the show ends. Whether they’ll address the harassment claims or ignore them remains to be seen.
The final season arrives in less than a month. Netflix has spent over $400 million on these eight episodes. They’ll push ahead with marketing regardless. But this story has already put a cloud over what should have been a celebration.
