Lena Dunham has published her second memoir, the successor to the controversial 2014 ‘Not That Kind Of Girl’, and has given many details regarding her breakup with Jack Antonoff in 2018. Specifically, regarding the “teenage pop star” with whom Antonoff was spending so much time.
In ‘Famesick’, Dunham also gives details about her toxic relationship with ‘Girls’ producer Jenni Konner; accuses actor Adam Driver of “verbally aggressive, condescending and physically imposing” behavior on set and also reflects on the accusations of child sexual abuse he received following a story with his brother that he included in his first book.
Dunham says that when their relationship began to deteriorate, the producer began spending a lot of time with a “teenage pop star.” She recounts how she found her “sprawled on our couch, crying in Jack’s lap as he told her that ‘your teenage years are for experimenting’ in a tone so comforting it almost made me cry.”
She also claims to have felt “like a ghost” when she saw them together, to which Antonoff would have replied this: “You’re only angry because she doesn’t want to be your friend.” “And he was right,” Dunham clarifies in the text. “She was too oblivious to everything to be jealous of her,” she says of the popstar, who supposedly referred to Dunham as “Aunt Lena.” Everything indicates that this popstar is Lorde, an artist with whom Antonoff worked on ‘Melodrama’ in 2017.
Dunahm remembers a huge fight in which the couple decided to take a break, despite still living in the same house. The basis of the relationship was ambiguous and Dunham, according to her, was careful about being with other people, observing “certain boundaries.” At the same time, he writes that “if I had wanted to, I might have seen that Jack was not watching them as carefully as I was.”
Shortly after, Dunahm reconnected with a childhood friend: “I decided at that moment that the only thing that could save me was being desired.” She tells that they saw each other a few times before definitively ending the relationship with Antonoff, beginning a three-month affair that ended with a marriage commitment that never took place: “I was high when I said yes,” says the actress and writer.
