{"id":2374945,"date":"2026-04-15T19:32:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T19:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2374945"},"modified":"2026-04-15T19:32:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T19:32:27","slug":"lena-dunham-awkwardly-avoids-adam-driver-questions-after-book-revelations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/lena-dunham-awkwardly-avoids-adam-driver-questions-after-book-revelations\/","title":{"rendered":"Lena Dunham awkwardly avoids Adam Driver questions after book revelations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Lena Dunham awkwardly dodged questions regarding her previous working relationship with Adam Driver after she revealed Driver was prone to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/04\/13\/celebrity-news\/lena-dunham-claims-girls-co-star-adam-driver-hurled-a-chair-punched-a-wall-in-explosive-on-set-outbursts\/\">violent onset outburts<\/a> in her <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/04\/14\/lifestyle\/heres-how-to-read-new-lena-dunham-memoir-famesick-for-free\/\">new memoir, \u201cFamesick.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou write in the book about so much, but partly about a complicated relationship you had with your co-star Adam Driver,\u201d Jenna Bush Hager said during her Wednesday interview with Dunham, 38, on the April 15 episode of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.today.com\/video\/lena-dunham-on-new-memoir-jack-antonoff-health-issues-more-261423685511\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cToday With Jenna &amp; Sheinelle.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou were his boss. You were the director of this television series. Moments where there was violence or anger, moments where there could have been romantic feelings,\u201d Bush Hager continued, before asking, \u201cHow does it sit with you now?\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Lena Dunham awkwardly avoided questions about her former co-star Adam Driver in her appearance on \u201cToday With Jenna &amp; Sheinelle,\u201d as pictured above, after she revealed Driver had explosive onset outbursts in her book, \u201cFamesick.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">NBC\/TODAY<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>When asked by the hosts about her feelings on their interactions, Dunham answered: \u201cI think I wrote about a dynamic that a lot of young women can understand in the workplace.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">NBC\/TODAY<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Dunham began to expertly steer clear of the question about her sometimes stressful \u201cworkplace dynamic\u201d by telling the hosts she wanted to avoid sharing any materials that were not \u201cuseful, potentially, to the reader\u201d in her book.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think I wrote about a dynamic that a lot of young women can understand in the workplace,\u201d Dunham shared. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI 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 \u2014 with cool glamorous girls like you \u2014 and are asked to rehash it in a way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI really want people to read it in context and understand it in the totality. \u2026 It\u2019s 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,\u201d she continued.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>She added that she wanted to share events that were \u201cuseful, potentially\u201d to readers of her book.  <span class=\"credit\">NBC\/TODAY<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Dunham, seen above walking in New York City on April 15, then dodged another question about whether she thought she would \u201cstay in touch\u201d with Driver after they finished the HBO series.  <span class=\"credit\">GC Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Bush Hager\u2019s co-host Sheinelle Jones then switched gears, probing Dunham for a specific answer about whether she ever thought she and Driver would cross paths again later in their careers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you were in that season [of life], did you ever think that you guys would still communicate again?\u201d she asked. \u201cOr that you would stay in touch?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dunham was quick to cleverly sidestep the question with an answer revealing her feelings toward the entire \u201cGirls\u201d cast. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>\u201cOur entire cast has a sort of bond that I don\u2019t think can ever be broken,\u201d Dunham, seen above with Driver, responded.  <span class=\"credit\">FilmMagic<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Dunham claimed in her book, \u201cFamesick,\u201d that Driver, both pictured above filming \u201cGirls,\u201d hurled a chair at a wall and screamed at her in some of his wild onset outbursts.  <span class=\"credit\">GC Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI, 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\u2019t think can ever be broken,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Dunham previously made headlines earlier this week after an excerpt from \u201cFamesick\u201d was published by The Guardian. In the small section of the memoir, she writes that Driver \u2014 who played her on-again, off-again boyfriend Adam Sackler on \u201cGirls\u201d \u2014 was \u201cspectacularly rude\u201d to her while working together on the show.<\/p>\n<p>In one incident, she reflects about the time he threw a chair at the wall next to her. She also alleges that he punched a hole in his trailer wall, and that he would scream in her face.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>\u201cit never entered my mind to say, \u2018I am your boss, you can\u2019t speak to me this way,\u2019\u201d Dunham later reflected of the incidents in an interview.  <span class=\"credit\">lena dunham\/ instagram<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Her memoir, \u201cFamesick,\u201d is currently available for purchase. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cAt the time, I didn\u2019t have the skill to \u2026 it never entered my mind to say, \u2018I am your boss, you can\u2019t speak to me this way,\u2019\u201d  the series creator and showrunner told the Guardian of the interactions in her interview.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd, at that point in my 20s, I still thought that\u2019s what great male geniuses do: eviscerate you. Which is weird, because I was raised by a male genius who would never do that,\u201d she continued, referring to her dad, painter Carroll Dunham.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-aps-asc-tag=\"pagesix-20\" data-aps-asin=\"B0FLKKQN6Z\" data-wrapped-template=\"https:\/\/r.pagesixlink.com?btn_ref=org-282f0dd399864b44&amp;btn_url\" href=\"https:\/\/r.pagesixlink.com?btn_ref=org-282f0dd399864b44&amp;btn_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FAudible-Famesick-A-Memoir%2Fdp%2FB0FLKKQN6Z%3Ftag%3Dpagesix-20%26asc_refurl%3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Fpagesix.com%2F2026%2F04%2F14%2Flifestyle%2Fheres-how-to-read-new-lena-dunham-memoir-famesick-for-free%2F%26asc_source%3Dwww.google.com%26ascsubtag%3Dsrctok-fde2f2b62be856c2%26btn_ref%3Dsrctok-fde2f2b62be856c2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Dunham\u2019s \u201cFamesick\u201d<\/a> was released on April 14 and is currently available for purchase. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source pagesix.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lena Dunham awkwardly dodged questions regarding her previous working relationship with Adam Driver after she revealed Driver was prone to violent onset outburts in her new memoir, \u201cFamesick.\u201d \u201cYou write in the book about so much, but partly about a complicated relationship you had with your co-star Adam Driver,\u201d Jenna Bush Hager said during her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2374946,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[310560,344976,357888,24003,374614,342222,350134,21913],"class_list":["post-2374945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-adam-driver","tag-celebrity-interviews","tag-celebrity-memoirs","tag-celebrity-news","tag-girls","tag-lena-dunham","tag-today-show","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Lena-Dunham-awkwardly-avoids-Adam-Driver-questions-after-book-revelations.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2374945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2374945"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2374945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2374947,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2374945\/revisions\/2374947"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2374946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2374945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2374945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2374945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}