Even if the actress Lena Dunham made serious accusations against Adam Piloteshe always wants her fans to read what she had to say “in context.” The “Girls” creator accused her co-star, who played her on-screen love interest for six seasons, of allegedly throwing a chair, punching a hole in the wall of her trailer and yelling in her face as they rehearsed lines. She also alleged that the two almost crossed a line in their relationship a month before he got engaged to his current wife, Joanne Tucker.
Lena Dunham addresses her complicated relationship with Adam Driver
While promoting her new memoir, “Famesick,” Dunham appeared on “Today With Jenna & Sheinelle” to address accusations she made against her former co-star.
“You were his boss. You were the director of that TV show,” Jenna Bush Hager said, according to Entertainment Weekly. “[You wrote about] times when there was violence or anger, times when there could have been romantic feelings. How is it going for you now?
Dunham explained that she included information about her experiences because she thought it would be “useful” to anyone who read her book.
Dunham wanted to address a work dynamic that young women “can understand”
During their conversation, Dunham said, “I think I wrote about a dynamic that a lot of young women can relate to in the workplace. »
“I spent eight and a half years writing this book, so I was super intentional with every word I put on the page, and then you come on live TV — with cool, glamorous girls like you — and you’re asked to rehash it in a certain way,” she added.
Even though her comments about Driver make headlines, Dunham said she wants people to focus on the “context” of her comments.
“I really want people to read it in context and understand it in its entirety,” she said. “It’s as much about my experience of coming to some sort of understanding of my own power as a boss as anything else.”
Sheinelle Jones asked Dunham whether or not she plans to stay in contact with the “Star Wars” actor after his recent accusations. “Did you ever think that you would communicate again?” she asked. “Or that you would keep in touch?”
However, Dunham seemed to evade the question. “In the book, I really share that there were a lot of magical moments. And our entire cast has a kind of bond that I think can never be broken.”
In her memoir, Dunham alleges that she did not speak after finishing production on “Girls” in 2016. She alleges that they drove home together in a van, since Driver and his wife lived across the street from her home.
“In the car, he held my hand in silence,” Dunham wrote in an excerpt published by Entertainment Weekly. “When we got to our block, he hugged me. I let him kiss my cheek, my forehead. ‘You too,’ I chirped. ‘I know we’ve had some tough times, that we’re really different people. I’m sorry if the way I am was never right for…the way you are.’ I didn’t know how else to say it.
She continued: “‘It was just the thing,’ he said, sounding like a Jedi (maybe he’d learned a few tricks). ‘I hope you know I’ll always love you.'”
Dunham says she stood “still” as Driver left the van and wondered if that meant there was “a different kind of future ahead of us.”
“Who knows, maybe I’ll write new roles for him,” she wrote. “We were telling new stories. We were laughing at the way things used to be and smiling at the way they are now.”
However, she confessed, “I never heard from him again.” »
Lena Dunham Says Adam Driver Got Engaged One Month After Alleged Incident
Production on the series ended three years after Driver married Joanne Tucker, whom he met while they were both students at Juilliard. Although they were together during the filming of “Girls,” Dunham alleged that she and Driver almost crossed a line in their relationship during a time when her parents were out of town and Tucker was doing a play in Cincinnati.
In his memoir, Dunham claimed he called her to tell her he was engaged a month after the alleged incident. “It was absurd to be heartbroken, to think that I wanted to say something, that I occupied a role beyond distraction,” she wrote.
The driver has not yet commented on these allegations.