Regardless that actress Lena Dunham made some serious accusations against Adam Driver, she still wants her fans to read what she needed 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 within the wall of his trailer, and screaming in her face after they were rehearsing lines. She also alleged that the 2 almost crossed a boundary of 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 latest memoir, “Famesick,” Dunham appeared on “Today With Jenna & Sheinelle” in an effort 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 might have been romantic feelings. How does it sit with you now?”
Dunham explained that she had included details about her experiences because she thought that they’d 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 believe I wrote a few dynamic that a number of young women can understand from the workplace.”
“I spent eight and a half years writing this book, so I used to be super intentional with every word that I placed on the page and you then come on live TV — with cool glamorous girls such as you — and are asked to rehash it in a way,” she added.
Regardless that her comments about Driver are making headlines, Dunham said that she wants people to deal with the “context” of her words.
“I actually need people to read it in context and understand it within the totality,” she said. “It’s as much about my experience of coming to some sort of understanding of my very own power as a boss than it’s about anything.”
Sheinelle Jones asked Dunham whether or not she expected to stay in touch with the “Star Wars” actor after her recent accusations. “Did you ever think that you just guys would still communicate again?” she asked. “Or that you just would stay in contact?”
Nonetheless, Dunham looked as if it would sidestep the query. “I, within the book, really share that there have been a number of magical moments. And our entire solid has a type of bond that I don’t think can ever be broken.”
In her memoir, Dunham alleges that she didn’t 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 road from where she lived.
“Within the automotive, he held my hand in silence,” Dunham wrote in an excerpt published by Entertainment Weekly. “After we reached our block, he took me in his arms. I let him kiss my cheek, my brow. ‘You, too,’ I warbled. ‘I do know we’ve had our hard moments, that we’re really different people. I’m sorry if the best way I’m ever wasn’t good for… the best way you’re.’ I didn’t understand how else to say it.”
She continued: “’It was just because it needed to be,’ he said, sounding like a Jedi (perhaps he’d picked up just a few tricks). ‘I hope you recognize I’ll all the time love you.’”
Dunham says that she stayed “motionless” as Driver left the van, and wondered if this meant that there was a “different sort of future ahead of us.”
“Who knows—perhaps I’d write him latest parts,” she wrote. “We might tell latest stories. We might laugh at the best way things had been, and smile at the best way they were now.”
Nonetheless, 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 after they were each students at Juilliard. Although they were together while he was filming “Girls,” Dunham alleged that she and Driver almost crossed a boundary of 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 inform 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.