Actress Allison Williams was asked about the accusations that her “Girls” co-star Lena Dunham made against Adam Driver in her new memoir, “Famesick.” Although Dunham opens up about her health, her high-profile relationships, and her career in the tell-all book, many fans have been surprised to hear the accusations she made against the “Star Wars” actor.
Lena Dunham Accused Adam Driver Of Throwing A Chair
In her tell-all memoir, “Famesick,” Dunham alleges that Driver threw a chair at a wall near her, punched a hole in the wall of his trailer, and screamed in her face when she forgot lines when they were rehearsing.
“At the time, I didn’t have the skill to … it never entered my mind to say, ‘I am your boss, you can’t speak to me this way,’” Dunham wrote in the book, as per Entertainment Weekly. “And, at that point in my 20s, I still thought that’s what great male geniuses do: eviscerate you. Which is weird, because I was raised by a male genius who would never do that.”
Allison Williams Sidesteps ‘Famesick’ Accusations
“Girls” co-star Allison Williams was asked about Driver’s alleged behavior at a recent event. She told Variety that she has a “lifelong bond” with Dunham, adding, “We love each other” before sidestepping the allegations.
“I don’t. I also just got to the table read of the pilot in the book,” Williams said. “I was just saying that the most surprising thing was, almost, I thought that she was gonna write that I was 40 minutes late, and then I saw the word ‘early,’ and I was like, ‘That’s more on brand.’ But, no, I need to read it before I say anything about it.”
Lena Dunham Says She Hasn’t Talked To Adam Driver Since ‘Girls’ Wrapped
“Girls” wrapped its six-season run on HBO in April 2017, while Driver was in the middle of the success of the “Star Wars” sequel trilogy. In an excerpt of the book obtained by Entertainment Weekly, Dunham claims that she has not spoken to the “Marriage Story” actor since filming wrapped.
“In the car, he held my hand in silence,” Dunham said, explaining that he and his wife, Joanne Tucker, lived “directly across the street” from her.
She wrote, “When we reached our block, he took me in his arms. I let him kiss my cheek, my forehead. ‘You, too,’ I warbled. ‘I know we’ve had our hard moments, that we are really different people. I’m sorry if the way I am ever wasn’t good for… the way you are.’ I didn’t know how else to say it.”
She then claimed he said, “It was just as it needed to be,” and joked that he sounded “like a Jedi,” adding, “maybe he’d picked up a few tricks.” She then alleged that he told her, “I hope you know I’ll always love you.”
She ended the passage stating that although she hoped this would begin a new chapter, “I never heard from him again.”
Lena Dunham Alleges She And Adam Driver Almost Crossed A Boundary
Although Driver married his wife, Joanne Tucker, in 2013, Dunham alleged that they nearly crossed a boundary in their relationship when her parents were out of town, and his wife (then-girlfriend) was performing in a play in Cincinnati.
“I spent an inordinate amount of time wondering if Adam liked me,” Dunham wrote in her memoir. “He could be short-tempered and verbally aggressive, condescending and physically imposing. He could also be protective, loving even.”
One day, when he was leaving a theater, she says he called her to ask if she was still awake after visiting her “almost every night” that week. She claims he said, “Okay. I’m riding down to you. But I’m warning you, if I come up, I’m not leaving this time.”
Lena Dunham Claims Adam Driver Got Engaged One Month After The Incident
Although she initially told him to come over, she decided not to answer his call.
“It felt as simple as ignoring your doorbell, as pretending to be asleep, as impossible as stopping your blood from flowing,” she wrote. “But some part of me knew – some wise part of me, some bold part of me – that if we crossed whatever boundary we were threatening to cross, the return to work would be tinged with humiliation, that I’d be minimizing any authority I still had, and that, however it went, my heart -bruised but improbably not yet broken – would crack.”
She claims that a month later, he called to tell her that he was engaged. “It was absurd to be heartbroken, to have thought I meant anything, that I occupied any role beyond distraction. I was his scene partner, sure, and so when we were in a scene, his attention was piercing, his presence all-consuming,” she wrote. “But in life? It would never be me who kept him in line. I didn’t have the chops. Even at work, I couldn’t do it, in the one place I was meant to make the rules.”
Driver has yet to comment on the allegations.