Lena Dunham Reveals The Last Time She Spoke To Adam Driver Amid ‘Girls’ Return

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Although “Girls” is returning to HBO for five new episodes, Adam Driver was not included on the list of returning cast. Earlier this year, showrunner and star Lena Dunham released a new memoir, “Famesick,” in which she detailed how “verbally aggressive” the “Star Wars” alum was to her. She alleged that he screamed in her face, punched a hole in the wall of his trailer, and even once threw a chair in her direction when she forgot her lines. Given the allegations, many fans are wondering where things stand between them now. Although it’s unclear where their relationship stands after the release of her memoir, it seems they’ve been estranged for years.

Lena Dunham Says She Hasn’t Spoken To Adam Driver In Almost A Decade

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It’s unclear whether Lena Dunham reached out to Adam Driver after publishing her memoir “Famesick,” but in the tell-all book, she revealed they never spoke after wrapping the last episode of “Girls.” The season six finale aired in April 2017, months before Driver would reprise his role as Kylo Ren in “The Last Jedi.”

In the book, Dunham said that Driver “held my hand in silence” as the two rode home together in the same car. She explained that Driver and his wife, Joanne Tucker, lived “across the street” from her at the time.

Lena Dunham Alleges Driver Said ‘I’ll Always Love You’ During Last Encounter

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“When we reached our block, he took me in his arms. I let him kiss my cheek, my forehead. ‘You, too,’ I warbled. ‘I know we’ve had our hard moments, that we are really different people. I’m sorry if the way I am ever wasn’t good for… the way you are.’ I didn’t know how else to say it. ‘It was just as it needed to be,’ he said, sounding like a Jedi (maybe he’d picked up a few tricks). ‘I hope you know I’ll always love you,’” she wrote in the excerpt, which was published by Entertainment Weekly.

Dunham said she stayed “motionless” as Driver got out of the car and hoped this “reckoning” would mean a “different kind of future ahead of us.”

“Who knows—maybe I’d write him new parts,” she shared. “We would tell new stories. We would laugh at the way things had been, and smile at the way they were now.”

However, she concluded, “I never heard from him again.”

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Lena Dunham Alleged They Almost Crossed A Boundary In Their Relationship

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Driver played Dunham’s on-again, off-again love interest throughout six seasons of “Girls.” Although her memoir details how he once threw a chair at her while she rehearsed a scene and punched a hole in the wall of his trailer, she also said they felt like “partners” during the show’s first season.

“During the first season, chair incident aside, we had felt like partners,” Dunham wrote. “I ran decisions by him that weren’t his to make. We rehearsed on weekends in his spare white living room, even when the scene was easy and didn’t require it. He hugged me tight in the morning and again at the end of the day.”

During one visit, she claimed that she “looked up to see him smiling at me with something so tender, it felt like it could only have been love.” 

She later confessed, “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.”

“The entire feeling was very ‘nobody talks sh– about my mother but me.’ But did he see me as a mother?” she asked herself. “A boss? A girl? F-ckable? Unf-ckable? Irritating? Brilliant? He showed flashes of all of these.”

Lena Dunham Claims He ‘Came Over Almost Every Night’ When Her Parents Were Out Of Town

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Although Driver is now married to actress Joanne Tucker, whom he started dating when they were both students at Juilliard, Dunham alleges that they almost crossed a boundary when Tucker was off performing a play in Cincinnati.

“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.”

She claims that one night Driver called her, saying, “Okay. I’m riding down to you. But I’m warning you, if I come up, I’m not leaving this time.”

Although she told him to call her when he was outside, she didn’t answer when he arrived.

“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.”

One month after the incident, she alleges that Driver called her to tell her that he had become engaged. She claims he told her: “When my girl was away, I realized I’m no good alone. I need someone to keep me in line.”

She wrote: “It was absurd to be heartbroken, to have thought I meant anything, that I occupied any role beyond distraction. 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.”

What Adam Driver Has Said About Her Allegations

While promoting his new movie “Paper Tiger” at the Cannes Film Festival in May, Driver was asked about the allegations that Dunham made about him in her memoir.

“I have no comment on any of that,” he said, as per Deadline. “I’m saving it all for my book.”

The comment drew laughter from the audience, and the matter hasn’t been revisited since.

Adam Driver Was Not Included In The ‘Girls’ Reunion

On October 13, Lena Dunham revealed that HBO ordered a limited-five episode run with most of the original cast returning. Lena Dunham will continue to star as Hannah, and Allison Williams will portray Marnie. Jemima Kirke will return as Jessa, Zosia Mamet will reprise her role as Shoshanna, and Andrew Rannells will return as Elijah.

However, Driver’s name was noticeably absent. In a statement regarding the return, Dunham said, “We always said we would only return to Girls if there was a specific story we were burning to tell. I’ve missed these characters, but for a long time I couldn’t quite picture them in the present day. Then, right around my 40th birthday, they started talking to me in the shower. And, as you may remember, once this fivesome starts talking, it’s pretty hard to get them to stop.”

No release date has been announced yet. Production on the project is expected to begin next year.