Adam Driver Breaks His Silence on Lena Dunham’s Memoir
Adam Driver Breaks His Silence on Lena Dunham’s Memoir
Desiree AnelloSun, May 17, 2026 at 2:58 PM UTC
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Adam Driver, Lena Dunham.
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Adam Driver broke his silence on Lena Dunham's memoir when he was asked about it at the 2026 Cannes Film Festival
The actor said he had "no comment"
The pair starred together in HBO's Girls from 2012 to 2017, and Dunham wrote about their relationship in her memoir Famesick
Adam Driver has broken his silence on Lena Dunham's memoir.
The actress, 40, wrote about her complicated relationship with her former Girls costar in her memoir Famesick, including claims that Driver, 42, once “hurled a chair at the wall” next to her and was at times “verbally aggressive.”
When asked about the memoir at a press conference for his latest film, Paper Tiger, during the 2026 Cannes Film Festival on Sunday, May 17, the actor said he has “no comment on any of that.”
“I'm saving it all for my book,” he added, inciting laughter from the audience, video shared by Deadline shows.
Lena Dunham (left) and Adam Driver (right) in 'Girls.'
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In her memoir, Dunham opened up about facing chronic illness, making Girls, dating and coming of age. When it came to her relationship with Driver, she wrote, "The more I knew him, the less I understood.”
While Dunham said the two have not spoken since the end of their HBO show in 2017, she remembered being “heartbroken” when she learned that Driver was engaged.
She also wrote about watching Driver navigate his way through a “very specific ride" — becoming a major movie star while also focusing on Girls.
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Speaking with PEOPLE about her memoir and her relationship with Driver, Dunham said, "He was on these two tracks, and he's a very, very serious work-focused private person. So I have a lot of empathy for that."
"And again, the goal was never to make Adam seem like he was in any way the outlier of the show, but just to talk about how complex and confusing those first experiences of trying to be a boss were," she continued.
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Adam Driver at the Cannes Film Festival on May 17.
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In reflecting on her “really rich creative dynamic" with Driver, Dunham recalled that they were able to “understand each other completely” when they were onscreen. (Driver starred in Girls as Dunham's character's on-again, off-again boyfriend.)
But when it came to their real lives, things were different, Dunham said. "It was almost like we had two different relationships, one that kind of played out in our scenes together and one that played out in life,” she explained.
According to Dunham, her memoir was “an attempt to capture that [relationship] in an honest way, and also really talk about how much being around this very talented, charismatic, complex and powerful person affected me in ways that were really positive and in ways that were a bit harder.”
Famesick is available to purchase now, wherever books are sold.
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