Even though actress Lena Dunham made some serious accusations against Adam Driver, she still 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 his trailer, and screaming in her face when they were rehearsing lines. She also alleged that the two almost crossed a boundary in their relationship one month before he got engaged to his now-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” in order to address the accusations that she made about her former co-star.
“You were his boss. You were the director of this television series,” Jenna Bush Hager said, as per Entertainment Weekly. “[You wrote about] moments where there was violence or anger, moments where there could have been romantic feelings. How does it sit with you now?”
Dunham explained that she had included information about her experiences because she thought that they would be “useful” to everyone who read her book.
Dunham Wanted To Address A Workplace 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 understand from the workplace.”
“I spent eight and a half years writing this book, so I was super intentional with every word that I put on the page and then you come on live TV — with cool glamorous girls like you — and are asked to rehash it in a way,” she added.
Even though her comments about Driver are making headlines, Dunham said that she wants people to focus on the “context” of her words.
“I really want people to read it in context and understand it in the totality,” she said. “It’s as much about my experience of coming to some kind of understanding of my own power as a boss than it is about anything else.”
Sheinelle Jones asked Dunham whether or not she expected to remain in contact with the “Star Wars” actor after her recent accusations. “Did you ever think that you guys would still communicate again?” she asked. “Or that you would stay in touch?”
However, Dunham seemed to sidestep the question. “I, in the book, really share that there were a lot of magical moments. And our entire cast has a sort of bond that I don’t think can ever be broken.”
In her memoir, Dunham alleges that she did not speak after they wrapped production on “Girls” in 2016. She alleges that they rode home in a van together, since Driver and his wife lived across the street from where she lived.
“In the car, he held my hand in silence,” Dunham wrote in an excerpt published by Entertainment Weekly. “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 continued: “’It was just as it needed to be,’ he said, sounding like a Jedi (maybe he’d picked up a few tricks). ‘I hope you know I’ll always love you.’”
Dunham says that she stayed “motionless” as Driver left the van, and wondered if this meant that there was a “different kind of future ahead of us.”
“Who knows—maybe I’d write him new parts,” she wrote. “We would tell new stories. We would laugh at the way things had been, and smile at the way they were now.”
However, she confessed, “I never heard from him again.”
Lena Dunham Says Adam Driver Got Engaged One Month After An Alleged Incident
The show wrapped production three years after Driver married Joanne Tucker, whom he met when they were both students at Juilliard. Although they were together while he was filming “Girls,” Dunham alleged that she and Driver almost crossed a boundary in their relationship during a time when her parents were out of town, and Tucker was performing a play in Cincinnati.
In her memoir, Dunham claimed that he called her to tell her that he was engaged one month after the alleged incident. “It was absurd to be heartbroken, to have thought I meant anything, that I occupied any role beyond distraction,” she wrote.
Driver has yet to comment on the allegations.