<p id=”par-1_50″>Lena Dunham and Adam Driver spent years acting opposite <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/news/lena-dunham-says-girls-was-her-first-grownup-job.html/”>one another on <em>Girls</em></a>. Dunham described <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/news/girls-1-thing-adam-driver-learned-lena-dunham.html/”>their working relationship</a> as complicated; at times, she alleged he became angry and violent. On other occasions, though, she said he behaved lovingly toward her. She admitted that when he got engaged, she felt heartbroken.</p>
<h2 class=”wp-block-heading” id=”h-lena-dunham-described-her-relationship-with-adam-driver”>Lena Dunham described her relationship with Adam Driver</h2>
<p id=”par-2_12″>In Dunham’s new memoir, <em>Famesick</em>, she described her <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/news/girls-adam-driver-lena-dunham-rest-cast-still-friends.html/”>complicated dynamic with Driver</a>.</p>
<p id=”par-3_35″>“I spent an inordinate amount of time wondering if Adam liked me,” she wrote, per <a target=”_blank” href=”https://ew.com/lena-dunham-says-she-almost-crossed-a-boundary-with-girls-costar-adam-driver-11948797″ rel=”noreferrer noopener”>Entertainment Weekly</a>. “He could be short-tempered and verbally aggressive, condescending and physically imposing. He could also be protective, loving even.”</p>
<p id=”par-4_33″>She said they were close creative collaborators and rehearsed more often than was strictly necessary. She said their relationship nearly reached a tipping point when Driver’s girlfriend was performing a play in Cincinnati. </p>
<p id=”par-5_56″>“That week, the week of my empty apartment, he came over almost every night,” she wrote. “I was still frail and fawning, a careful and terrified version of myself — and maybe he liked me most that way. Maybe it made his heart go out to me, or maybe it just leveled the balance of power.”</p>
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<p id=”par-6_17″>At the end of this week, she said Driver implied that he wanted more than just friendship.</p>
<p id=”par-7_28″>“You still home alone, Dunham?” she recalled him asking. “Okay. I’m riding down to you. But I’m warning you, if I come up, I’m not leaving this time.”</p>
<p id=”par-8_21″>While she initially told him to come over, she ignored his call when he arrived. She worried about crossing this line.</p>
<p id=”par-9_85″>“It felt as simple as ignoring your doorbell, as pretending to be asleep, as impossible as stopping your blood from flowing,” she wrote. “But some part of me knew-some wise part of me, some bold part of me — that if we crossed whatever boundary we were threatening to cross, the return to work would be tinged with humiliation, that I’d be minimizing any authority I still had, and that, however it went, my heart — bruised but improbably not yet broken — would crack.”</p>
<p id=”par-10_7″>She said they discussed the incident again.</p>
<h2 class=”wp-block-heading” id=”h-lena-dunham-said-she-felt-hurt-when-adam-driver-got-engaged”>Lena Dunham said she felt hurt when Adam Driver got engaged</h2>
<p id=”par-11_16″>Several months later, Dunham said Driver told her he was engaged to <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/news/adam-driver-wife-joanne-tucker-adam-driver-son.html/”>his now-wife, Joanne Tucker</a>.</p>
<p id=”par-12_24″>“When my girl was away, I realized I’m no good alone,” Dunham recalled him telling her. “I need someone to keep me in line.”</p>
<p id=”par-13_8″>She said that the news broke her heart. </p>
<p id=”par-14_79″>“It was absurd to be heartbroken, to have thought I meant anything, that I occupied any role beyond distraction,” she wrote. “I was his scene partner, sure – and so when we were in a scene, his attention was piercing, his presence all-consuming. But in life? It would never be me who kept him in line. I didn’t have the chops. Even at work, I couldn’t do it, in the one place I was meant to make the rules.”</p>
<h2 class=”wp-block-heading” id=”h-they-also-had-a-tumultuous-relationship”>They also had a tumultuous relationship</h2>
<p id=”par-15_34″>While Dunham said Driver could be kind and loving towards her, she also alleged that he could <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/news/lena-dunham-said-adam-driver-feral-violent-girls-set.html/”>get explosively angry</a>. She froze while running lines, which she said prompted Driver to throw a chair.</p>
<p id=”par-16_46″>“When I opened my mouth, all that came out was a stammer – until finally, Adam screamed, ‘F***ING SAY SOMETHING’ and hurled a chair at the wall next to me,” she wrote. “‘WAKE THE F*** UP,’ he told me. ‘I’M SICK OF WATCHING YOU JUST STARE.’”</p>
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<p id=”par-17_30″>She also claimed he punched a hole in the wall of his trailer and screamed at her. At the time, she said she didn’t feel equipped to address his behavior.</p>