Adam Driver ‘threw a chair, screamed at me’, ‘punched a hole in the wall over a bad haircut’: Inside Lena Dunham’s tell-all memoir | Hollywood News
4 min readLos AngelesApr 15, 2026 09:37 AM IST In her new tell-all memoir Famesick, actor Lena Dunham has opened up on her experience of working with Adam Driver in Girls. The HBO dramedy show ran for six seasons from 2012 to 2017, and had Dunham doubling up as the showrunner. She played writer Hannah Horvath, who was in a toxic on/off relationship with Driver‘s Adam. Her account in the book reveals that their offscreen relationship was not too different than what transpired on screen. Lena Dunham was taken aback by Adam Driver’s behaviour In their first intimate scene, while Dunham tried to go for “careful blocking,” Driver took her by surprise when he “hurled me this way and that”. “Stunned, I couldn’t speak for a moment, unsure of what had happened — had I lost directorial authority, allowed the scene to go off the rails, not given proper instructions? Would I be removed from my command post immediately?,” she recalls. While she clarifies she didn’t feel “violated”, she was surely taken aback. “It wasn’t …








