Lena Dunham is pulling no punches in her new memoir, Famesick — and the revelations inside are including recent gas to years-old hypothesis about her ex-boyfriend Jack Antonoff and singer Lorde.
According to Entertainment Weekly, the Girls alum recollects confronting Antonoff about his “closeness” with an unnamed “teen pop star” whose album he was producing, writing that the dynamic had begun “striking an odd note.” While she by no means names the artist outright within the e book, which hit cabinets Tuesday, April 14, the outline has followers connecting acquainted dots.
Antonoff famously produced Lorde’s critically acclaimed sophomore album, Melodrama, which was launched in June 2017. (Lorde is now 29.) The two musicians spent vital time collectively throughout that collaboration.
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Those who’ve adopted the saga will do not forget that Dunham and Lorde had been as soon as extremely shut — the “Royals” singer even lived with Dunham for a time period, according to Grazia.
But that friendship abruptly ended after Dunham and Antonoff break up after 5 years collectively in 2018, and he was noticed trying cozy with Lorde (actual identify: Ella Yelich-O’Connor) on a number of events. “I don’t think anything happened between them,” Dunham instructed The Cut in 2018, however added, “I have never spoken to Ella about it.”
“It was awful, and I couldn’t do anything about it except trust that what he was saying to me was true,” she mentioned on the time.
In Famesick, the Once Upon a Time in Hollywood actress admits boundary points weren’t one-sided within the relationship. She writes that she “had observed careful boundaries, never taking it far enough that I could be declared out of bounds,” earlier than pointedly including that Jack might not have been “observing them as closely” as she was.
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But after her 2018 hysterectomy, she reconnected with a middle-school ex named Nick, admitting she was “ready to do adultery.” The affair lasted a number of days earlier than she and Antonoff tearfully ended issues.
Antonoff has been in a relationship with actress Margaret Qualley since 2021, and the couple married in 2023. Dunham married musician Luis Felber in 2021.
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