{"id":2421192,"date":"2026-05-18T02:44:49","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T02:44:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2421192"},"modified":"2026-05-18T02:44:49","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T02:44:49","slug":"adam-driver-reacts-to-lena-dunham-girls-allegations-at-cannes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/adam-driver-reacts-to-lena-dunham-girls-allegations-at-cannes\/","title":{"rendered":"Adam Driver reacts to Lena Dunham &#8216;Girls&#8217; allegations at Cannes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<div id=\"videoWrap\" class=\"spacer-large videoWrap\" style=\"position:relative\">\n<div id=\"uwVideoPlaceholder\" slot=\"placeholder\" style=\"z-index:19;width:100%;padding-bottom:56.25%;position:relative\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;right:0;bottom:0;width:100%;height:100%;z-index:2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2026\/05\/04\/USAT\/89936755007-20260504-ent-met-gala-img-3216-lena-dunham-thumb.jpg?crop=1079,607,x0,y768\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"vidplaybtn\" style=\"display:-moz-box;display:-ms-flexbox;display:-webkit-flex;display:flex;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,.4);border:2px solid #fff;border-radius:80px;cursor:pointer;height:80px;width:80px;position:absolute;top:50%;left:50%;transform:translate(-50%,-50%);z-index:10\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"vidplayicon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/appservices\/universal-web\/universal\/icons\/icon-play-alt-white.svg\" alt=\"play\" style=\"height:40px;margin:auto 18px auto 27px;width:40px\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div slot=\"videoDetails\" id=\"videoDetails\" class=\"videoDetails\" style=\"padding-top:8px;padding-bottom:8px\">\n<div id=\"videoDetailsContainer\" class=\"videoDetailsContainer\" hidden=\"\">\n<p>Lena Dunham red feathered gown at Met Gala<\/p>\n<p>Lena Dunham arrives to Met Gala 2026 in a showstopping, red feathered dress.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Adam Driver is keeping mum about <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/books\/2025\/09\/05\/lena-dunham-book-memoir-famesick\/85988098007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Lena Dunham&#8217;s revealing memoir<\/a> \u2212 at least, for now.<\/p>\n<p>During a <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/celebrities\/2026\/05\/15\/john-travolta-cries-cannes-film-festival\/90104991007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Cannes Film Festival<\/a> news conference for the movie &#8220;Paper Tiger,&#8221; the &#8220;Star Wars&#8221; actor, 42, brushed off a question about his former &#8220;<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/tv\/2025\/07\/06\/lena-dunham-girls-diversity-criticism\/84487137007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Girls<\/a>&#8221; costar claiming that he screamed and threw things on the set of the HBO show.<\/p>\n<p>When a journalist asked Driver for his response &#8220;to Lena Dunham&#8217;s portrayal of you in her memoir, and whether your process has changed since your time on &#8216;Girls,&#8217; &#8221; he immediately shut the topic down.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have no comment on any of that. I&#8217;m saving it all for my book,&#8221; he said, drawing laughs before the conference quickly moved on to the next question.<\/p>\n<p class=\"related-link\"><span class=\"exclude-from-newsgate\"><strong style=\"margin-right:3px\">Lena Dunham on Adam Driver: <\/strong><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/tv\/2026\/04\/14\/lena-dunham-adam-driver-memoir-famesick\/89607956007\/\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">She describes her costar&#8217;s &#8216;short-tempered&#8217; behavior on &#8216;Girls&#8217;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In his breakout role, Driver played Adam Sackler, the on-again, off-again love interest of Dunham&#8217;s character, Hannah, on the HBO comedy &#8220;Girls&#8221; from 2012 to 2017.<\/p>\n<p>In April, Dunham&#8217;s memoir &#8220;Famesick&#8221; delved into her complicated relationship with Driver while they worked together on the show. In the book, she wrote that Driver could be &#8220;short-tempered and verbally aggressive, condescending and physically imposing,&#8221; including in an incident where he allegedly threw a chair when she forgot her lines.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Late one night, as we practiced lines in my trailer, I found that mine were suddenly gone,&#8221; she wrote. &#8220;I knew I&#8217;d written them. I&#8217;d known them only minutes before. But when I opened my mouth, all that came out was a stammer \u2013 until finally, Adam screamed, &#8216;F&#8212;&#8212; SAY SOMETHING&#8217; and hurled a chair at the wall next to me. &#8216;WAKE THE F&#8212; UP,&#8217; he told me. &#8216;I&#8217;M SICK OF WATCHING YOU JUST STARE.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In another incident, Driver allegedly &#8220;punched a hole in his trailer wall&#8221; because he &#8220;hated his new haircut.&#8221; Dunham said they &#8220;fought often&#8221; while working together, typically &#8220;about the content of a scene, what it required, and how it would be executed,&#8221; though Driver could also &#8220;be protective, loving even.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In one chapter, Dunham detailed a night when Driver came to see her at her apartment, but she didn&#8217;t let him in because she felt they were threatening to cross a &#8220;boundary&#8221; in their relationship. A month later, she wrote, Driver told Dunham he was engaged, and she was &#8220;heartbroken.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to her book, Dunham and Driver have not spoken since &#8220;Girls&#8221; ended in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/lena-dunham-adam-driver-honest-famesick-exclusive-11949110\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">People<\/a>, Dunham, 40, said she wrote about Driver not to make him seem like an &#8220;outlier,&#8221; but to explore how &#8220;being around this very talented, charismatic, complex and powerful person affected me in ways that were really positive and in ways that were a bit harder.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dunham also said on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OqA0rbANNT8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&#8220;Today&#8221;<\/a> that her experience with Driver was a &#8220;dynamic that a lot of young women can understand from the workplace,&#8221; adding that she hopes people read what she wrote about him &#8220;in context, and understand it in the totality.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/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 www.usatoday.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lena Dunham red feathered gown at Met Gala Lena Dunham arrives to Met Gala 2026 in a showstopping, red feathered dress. 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