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Published 11:53 18 May 2026 GMT
Adam Driver has addressed Lena Dunham's claims that he "hurled her" during a sex scene they had together.
It comes after Dunham, 40, alleged in her newest memoir, Famesick, that Driver, 42, had been "verbally aggressive" and threw a chair while filming for the HBO series.
Driver had played Dunham's on-off love interest in all six seasons, which ran from 2012 to 2017.
Addressing their first sex scene together, Dunham wrote that he allegedly "hurled me this way and that", clarifying that "it wasn’t that I felt violated," but admitted she felt she had "lost directorial authority", per News18.
Elsewhere, she alleged, per the Independent: "I remember doing a fight scene with Adam and how scary it was to meet someone so totally present with such absence.
"Late one night, as we practiced lines in my trailer, I found that mine were suddenly gone. I knew I’d written them. I’d known them only minutes before. But when I opened my mouth, all that came out was a stammer — until finally, Adam screamed, ‘F***ING SAY SOMETHING’ and hurled a chair at the wall next to me. ‘WAKE THE F*** UP,’ he told me. ‘I’M SICK OF WATCHING YOU JUST STARE.’”
Dunham claimed she "didn't tell anyone" about it at the time because she was accustomed to similar behavior from a previous romantic relationship.
She also described Driver as "something feral", and "half-man, half-beast", alleging that the actor once punched a hole in his trailer wall because he disliked his haircut, and allegedly screamed in her face on another occasion.
Dunham also wrote: "I reasoned that the intensity of his anger at me, anger that could make him spit and throw things, was proportionate to the intensity of our creative connection."
According to Dunham, when Driver wrapped his final scene for Girls in 2016, he told her: "I hope you know I’ll always love you," but claims she “never heard from him again”.
During his appearance at Cannes Film Festival in support of his new movie Paper Tiger, Driver was asked about Dunham's allegations.
He responded: "I have no comment on any of that. I’m saving it all for my book."
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