Lena Dunham made eyebrow-raising remarks astir her astir six-year narration pinch Jack Antonoff months earlier news surfaced astir his split from his wife, Margaret Qualley.
In nan “Girls” creator’s 2026 memoir, “Famesick,” Dunham recalled nan euphony shaper — whom she dated from 2012 to precocious 2017 — spending a batch of clip pinch an unnamed “teen popular star.”
Dunham wrote successful nan book that she FaceTimed Antonoff while visiting her grandmother, but he was successful “the signaling workplace successful our apartment, wherever he was ensconced pinch a teen popular prima I was excessively oblivious to beryllium suspicious of.”
The Golden Globe winner, 40, claimed successful her memoir that nan Bleachers frontman, 42, spent his clip “locked successful a room pinch a teen popular prima whose needs seemed arsenic monolithic and analyzable arsenic my own, and who called maine ‘Aunt Lena’ erstwhile I hobbled into nan room pinch my walker to drawback different vessel of greenish tea.”
Dunham wrote that she came location from a doctor’s assignment to allegedly find nan female popular prima “sprawled crossed our sectional couch, weeping into Jack’s thigh arsenic he told her that ‘your teens are for experimenting’ successful a reside truthful comforting, it almost brought tears to my eyes.”
“It had been truthful agelong since he’d spoken to maine pinch that benignant of expansive generosity,” she recalled successful nan book.
Though Dunham ne'er named nan female successful question, fans suspected it was Lorde.
Antonoff worked pinch nan “Royals” singer, now 29, connected her 2nd workplace album, “Melodrama,” successful 2015 and 2016. At nan time, Lorde — calved Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O’Connor — was 18 and 19 years old.
The hitmaker denied rumors that he cheated connected Dunham pinch Lorde, saying connected X successful 2018 that he was not “seeing anyone.”
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“Normally one would ne'er reside rumors but one resent having nan astir important friendships and moving relationships successful my life reduced to dumb hetero normative gossip,” he wrote astatine nan time.
“Those relationships are profoundly important and sacred. pinch that said, im not seeing anyone. lol.”
Lorde besides unopen down nan allegations, telling fans connected Instagram Live that she and Antonoff were “not dating.”
“For nan past time… I emotion him, he’s awesome. But we’re not dating. Please!” she said successful February 2018.
In nan memoir, Dunham revealed that Antonoff allegedly threw her symptom medicine down nan toilet aft they sewage into nan “worst fight” of their relationship.
The “Too Much” alum said nan mates based on erstwhile she said to Antonoff astir her increasing reliance connected symptom medicine pursuing her caller hysterectomy.
Dunham wrote that Antonoff’s consequence “was to spell to nan bath and angrily flush each my pills down nan toilet, which necessitated a telephone to nan expert and a late-night travel to nan drugstore to get much truthful that I wouldn’t spell into withdrawal — from immoderate 1 of nan narcotics — overnight.”
Dunham’s memoir revelations resurfaced aft news collapsed that Antonoff and his wife, Qualley, were calling it quits conscionable weeks awkward of their third wedding anniversary.
Page Six exclusively reported that nan mates — who tied nan knot successful August 2023 — had challenges successful their marriage.
“Jack could beryllium very peculiar astir really he liked things,” a root told us. “He’d often for illustration for things to beryllium done nan measurement he thought was best, and Margaret didn’t ever consciousness for illustration her position was being heard aliases fixed nan aforesaid weight.”
“Communication was decidedly a situation betwixt him and Margaret,” nan insider added.
Ahead of their breakup news, nan “Maid” actress, 31, quietly deleted photos of Antonoff disconnected her Instagram page. Qualley besides did not travel her husband to Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s New York City wedding connected July 3.
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