Lena Dunham has made explosive claims about her Girls co-star Adam Driver in her shock new memoir.
The actress, now 39, has alleged the now 42-year-old Academy Award nominee threw a chair at a wall next to her, punched a hole in his trailer wall, and screamed in her face during their days working on the HBO series together.
Daily Mail has reached out to representatives for Driver and Dunham and has yet to hear back.
On the show created and starring Dunham, her character Hannah Horvath was in an on-off relationship with Driver’s character Adam Sackler throughout all six seasons from 2012-2017 starting when Dunham was 25, and Driver was 28.
Now Dunham has claimed that Driver was ‘spectacularly rude’ to her according to her soon to be released memoir Famesick.
She addressed the claims about Driver in a new interview with The Guardian as she said: ‘At the time, I didn’t have the skill to… it 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.’
Dunham did go on to praise other male talent that she had a better relationship with.
She said: ‘I have lots of amazing men in my life. Judd [Apatow] is a great hero of mine; Tim Bevan at Working Title is a huge part of my life and so is cinematographer Sam Levy.
‘I just worked with Mark Ruffalo, the most thoughtful, sensitive, politically engaged, beautiful person. There’s plenty of them walking around. But there were years when I thought: Can’t I just make things that only have women in them?’
The role famously launched Driver’s career as he went on to star as Kylo Ren in the Star Wars franchise.
He has also earned two Oscar nominations including a Best Actor nod for Marriage Story in 2020 and a Supporting Actor nod for BlacKkKlansman in 2019.
Dunham created, wrote, and starred in the HBO television series Girls from 2012 until 2017. The show garnered critical acclaim and numerous awards.
The comedy also featured Allison Williams, Jemima Kirke, Zosia Mamet, Alex Karpovsky, Andrew Rannells, Jake Lacy, and Ebon Moss-Bachrach.
Dunham has since entered a creative partnership with streaming giant Netflix.
The streamer secured the rights to her rom-com Good Sex — which she will wrote and directed — starring Natalie Portman, in a $55 million worldwide deal. The film is set to release sometime this year.
According to IMDB it is set around ‘a 40-something couples therapist ventures back into the world of dating in New York. Between two very different romances – a young hipster and a successful fifty-something – she must discover what she really wants in love.’
In 2010 she directed and starred in the film Tiny Furniture.
Famesick: A Memoir is set for release on Tuesday, April 14.
