Lena Dunham recently made a bombshell admission that she cheated on music producer Jack Antonoff during their five-year relationship, even though she had doubts about his close relationship with “a teenage pop star.”
The actress has opened up about her tumultuous relationship with Taylor Swift’s writing partner in her new memoir. famesikReleased on Tuesday.
Dunham wrote that she and Antonoff had “the worst fight we’ve ever had” following her hysterectomy surgery in November 2017, resulting in her addiction to painkillers after the surgery.
She and Antonoff put their relationship on hold when she went on tour.
Lena reported that during this time she reconnected with a childhood friend and former lover named Nick, but admitted that she should have paid more attention to Antonoff, who was spending a lot of time in the studio with a “teenage pop star”.
For years, rumors had swirled that Antonoff was romantically involved with Lorde, but both have always denied that they were in a romantic relationship.
Dunham wrote how “Up until now, I had seen myself as some kind of half-wife, and so I followed the wife code, but the events of the last few weeks have changed the game, and now every woman is just trying to survive for herself.”
Things escalated when the actress went on a date and took a taxi back to Nick’s apartment, where she wrote that she told Nick, “I’ve been through something terrible. I don’t want to talk about it, but I need you to fuck me and I need you to do all the work.”
The two slept together for two weeks while Antonoff was on tour and even got “engaged” after she split from the musician, but they ultimately broke up in 2018 after Dunham went to rehab.
Dunham also addressed rumors of infidelity on Antonoff’s part, revealing that her partner was spending time in the studio with a “teenage pop star”, whom she did not name.
She even wrote that when she came home one day the star was “crying in Jack’s lap”.
sharp stick The actress explained that while she “flirted” with others during their relationship, “I carefully followed the boundaries, never pushing it so far as to declare me off limits.”
“If I’d been looking, I probably would have noticed that Jack wasn’t watching them as closely as I was. I wasn’t paying attention, but the Internet was certainly paying attention, and they made some pretty amazing PowerPoints on the issue that were convincing enough that they made me reconsider the events I was even present for,” Lena Dunham mentioned about how she had begun to suspect Jack Antonoff of infidelity.
