{"id":234688,"date":"2026-04-15T18:31:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T18:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/15\/lena-dunham-blasts-adam-driver-for-tantrums-reveals-she-cheated-on-jack-antonoff-in-new-memoir\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T18:31:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T18:31:16","slug":"lena-dunham-blasts-adam-driver-for-tantrums-reveals-she-cheated-on-jack-antonoff-in-new-memoir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/15\/lena-dunham-blasts-adam-driver-for-tantrums-reveals-she-cheated-on-jack-antonoff-in-new-memoir\/","title":{"rendered":"Lena Dunham Blasts Adam Driver For Tantrums, Reveals She Cheated on Jack Antonoff In New Memoir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Lena Dunham has a new memoir out. <\/p>\n<p>And as with everything she does, her fans are ecstatic, and her critics are using it as ammo to hate her even more.<\/p>\n<p>In one of the book\u2019s most controversial passages, Lena reveals that she frequently clashed with her <em>Girls<\/em> co-star Adam Driver while they were making the show.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><noscript><\/noscript><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"677\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-15-at-1.58.58-PM-1024x677.png\" alt=\"Adam Driver and Lena Dunham on an episode of HBO's 'Girls.'\" class=\"wp-image-552904 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-15-at-1.58.58-PM-1024x677.png 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-15-at-1.58.58-PM-300x198.png 300w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-15-at-1.58.58-PM-768x508.png 768w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-15-at-1.58.58-PM-2048x1355.png 2048w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-15-at-1.58.58-PM-960x635.png 960w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-15-at-1.58.58-PM-1080x714.png 1080w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-15-at-1.58.58-PM-1200x794.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) calc(100vw - 20px), 720px\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-15-at-1.58.58-PM.png\" loading=\"lazy\" data-trellis-processed=\"1\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Adam Driver and Lena Dunham on an episode of HBO\u2019s \u2018Girls.\u2019<span class=\"image-caption-credit\"> (HBO\/YouTube)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In fact, she claims that Driver frequently lost his temper on set, at one point hurling a chair in her general direction.<\/p>\n<p>She also recalled being thrown around by Driver during a sex scene.<\/p>\n<p>Dunham writes in her book that her \u201ccareful blocking went out the window and he hurled me this way and that.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cStunned, I couldn\u2019t speak for a moment, unsure of what had happened \u2014 had I lost directorial authority, allowed the scene to go off the rails, not given proper instructions? Would I be removed from my command post immediately?\u201d she writes, adding:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt wasn\u2019t that I felt violated \u2014 and I also wouldn\u2019t know if I had, as there was little in my sexual life that I hadn\u2019t allowed to happen, and for no pay. But I felt that something intimate, confusing and primal had played out in a scenario I was meant to control.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"671\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/04\/GettyImages-491319130-1024x671.jpg\" alt=\"Musician Jack Antonoff and actress\/writer Lena Dunham attend The Rape Foundation's annual brunch at Greenacres, The Private Estate of Ron Burkle on October 4, 2015 in Beverly Hills, California. \" class=\"wp-image-552902\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/04\/GettyImages-491319130-1024x671.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/04\/GettyImages-491319130-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/04\/GettyImages-491319130-768x503.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/04\/GettyImages-491319130-2048x1342.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/04\/GettyImages-491319130-960x629.jpg 960w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/04\/GettyImages-491319130-1080x707.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/04\/GettyImages-491319130-1200x786.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) calc(100vw - 20px), 720px\"\/><\/noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"671\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/04\/GettyImages-491319130-1024x671.jpg\" alt=\"Musician Jack Antonoff and actress\/writer Lena Dunham attend The Rape Foundation's annual brunch at Greenacres, The Private Estate of Ron Burkle on October 4, 2015 in Beverly Hills, California. \" class=\"wp-image-552902 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/04\/GettyImages-491319130-1024x671.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/04\/GettyImages-491319130-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/04\/GettyImages-491319130-768x503.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/04\/GettyImages-491319130-2048x1342.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/04\/GettyImages-491319130-960x629.jpg 960w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/04\/GettyImages-491319130-1080x707.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/04\/GettyImages-491319130-1200x786.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) calc(100vw - 20px), 720px\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/04\/GettyImages-491319130-scaled.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" data-trellis-processed=\"1\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Musician Jack Antonoff and actress\/writer Lena Dunham attend The Rape Foundation\u2019s annual brunch at Greenacres, The Private Estate of Ron Burkle on October 4, 2015 in Beverly Hills, California. <span class=\"image-caption-credit\"> (Photo by Jason Merritt\/Getty Images for The Rape Foundation)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Elsewhere in the book, Lena wrote of her troubled romantic relationship with Bleachers frontman and acclaimed music producer Jack Antonoff.<\/p>\n<p>Dunham writes that her connection with another man \u2014 a boyfriend from her youth \u2014 never fully disappeared, even while she was committed to Antonoff.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had observed careful boundaries, never taking it far enough that I could be declared out of bounds,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, she acknowledges that those boundaries may not have been as clear-cut as she believed:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I\u2019d wanted to look, perhaps I may have seen that Jack was not observing them as closely as I was.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DXAEoiLFQj9\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\" style=\" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:540px; min-width:326px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);\"\/>\n<p>She also admits that, despite being in a relationship, her behavior didn\u2019t fully align with that commitment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI never stopped flirting,\u201d Dunham wrote.<\/p>\n<p>She said that a hysterectomy \u201cchanged the game\u201d in late 2017, and she wrote to a former middle school boyfriend named Nick \u201cwith impunity, saying l\u2019d just had major surgery and I needed to be cheered up. \u2018Meet me by the bridge? Bring me a stuffed animal?\u2019 I got an answer back in less than a minute: \u2018I\u2019m already running.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lena concluded the anecdote by explaining that she \u201cwas ready to do adultery.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>These days, Lena is married to Luis Felber, and Jack is married to Margaret Qualley.<\/p>\n<p>Dunham\u2019s memoir, Famesick, is available in stores and online now.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async defer src=\"https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehollywoodgossip.com\/2026\/04\/lena-dunham-blasts-adam-driver-for-tantrums-reveals-she-cheated-on-jack-antonoff-in-new-memoir\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading Time: 2 minutes Lena Dunham has a new memoir out. And as with everything she does, her fans are ecstatic, and her critics are using it as ammo to hate her even more. In one of the book\u2019s most controversial passages, Lena reveals that she frequently clashed with her Girls co-star Adam Driver while [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":234689,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-234688","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hollywood"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}