“I wrote about a dynamic that a lot of young women can understand from the workplace,” said the creator and star of “Girls.”

Lena Dunham on the reactions to Adam Driver stories in memoir: ‘I really want people to read it in context’

"I wrote about a dynamic that a lot of young women can understand from the workplace," said the creator and star of "Girls."

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- Lena Dunham is addressing her recent revelations about working alongside Adam Driver.

- In her new memoir, the *Girls* creator and star claims Driver threw a chair in her direction and screamed in her face.

- "I wrote about a dynamic that a lot of young women can understand from the workplace," Dunham said.

Lena Dunham is urging people to read beyond the headlines when it comes to recent revelations about her relationship with *Girls* costar Adam Driver.

In her new memoir, *Famesick*, Dunham gets extremely candid about working alongside Driver, claiming that their fraught relationship involved instances of violent behavior. She described Driver screaming, yelling, and throwing things at her during their time on the show, and also claimed that they nearly crossed a boundary into romantic territory, just one month before Driver got engaged.

During her sit-down on *Today With Jenna & Sheinelle*, the hosts prompted Dunham to address not only the complicated relationship, but the reaction that fans have had to reading about it in *Famesick*.

"You were his boss. You were the director of this television series," Jenna Bush Hager began. "[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?”

Lena Dunham and Adam Driver in season 6 of 'Girls'.

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Dunham broadly replied that she was careful to choose experiences that would be "useful" to all readers of her book, not just those who work in show business.

"I think I wrote about a dynamic that a lot of young women can understand from the workplace," Dunham explained.

She then expressed her reservations about unpacking the specific stories on *Today*, sharing, "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."

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She explained, "I really want people to read it in context and understand it in the totality… 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 then asked whether Dunham expected to remain in contact with Driver.

"Did you ever think that you guys would still communicate again?" she wondered. “Or that you would stay in touch?"

Lena Dunham and Adam Driver on 'Girls'.

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Dunham's response did not directly address Driver: "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."

** has reached out to a representative of Driver's for comment.

In her book, Dunham alleges that, while working on *Girls* — which she created, starred in, and executive-produced — Driver once threw a chair at the wall near her, punched the wall of a trailer, and screamed in her face.

Dunham, who was just 25 when the show premiered, writes, "[I]t never entered my mind to say, 'I am your boss, you can't speak to me this way.' And, at that point in my 20s, I still thought that's what great male geniuses do: eviscerate you. Which is weird, because I was raised by a male genius who would never do that" — a reference to her father, painter Carroll Dunham.

Elsewhere in the memoir, Dunham describes her and Driver's close bond as collaborators, recounting how she "ran decisions by him that weren't his to make" and went over to his home to rehearse scenes on the weekend.

She continues, "I spent an inordinate amount of time wondering if Adam liked me. He could be short-tempered and verbally aggressive, condescending and physically imposing. He could also be protective, loving even."

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Dunham claims that this came to a head when Driver asked to come over to her apartment one night, telling her, "I'm warning you, if I come up, I'm not leaving this time."

She ultimately did not let him in and says they never spoke of the incident again. A month later, Driver got engaged. According to *Famesick*, Dunham and Driver haven't spoken since *Girls* came to a close in 2017.

*Famesick: A Memoir *is available in bookstores.

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