{"id":399214,"date":"2026-04-15T05:50:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T05:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/399214\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T05:50:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T05:50:13","slug":"lena-dunham-talks-ex-jack-antonoffs-relationship-with-teen-pop-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/399214\/","title":{"rendered":"Lena Dunham Talks Ex Jack Antonoff’s Relationship With ‘Teen Pop Star’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tLena Dunham looks back on her past relationship with long-term boyfriend Jack Antonoff<\/a> in new memoir Famesick, including a low point that she says stemmed in part from his work with a \u201cteen pop star.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIn the book published Tuesday (April 14), the Girls creator \u2014 who dated the Bleachers frontman for about five years, up until their breakup<\/a> in early 2018 \u2014 describes how Antonoff and a certain singer whose album he was producing became \u201censconced\u201d in the recording studio in the apartment Dunham shared with her then-boyfriend. \u201cI was too oblivious to be jealous of [her],\u201d the screenwriter recalls of the young pop star, who apparently referred to Dunham as \u201cAunt Lena\u201d and whose \u201cneeds seemed as massive and complex as my own.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAccording to passages shared by Entertainment Weekly<\/a>, Dunham goes on to write that she once found Antonoff\u2019s collaborator \u201csprawled across our sectional couch, weeping into Jack\u2019s lap as he told her that \u2018your teens are for experimenting\u2019 in a tone so comforting, it almost brought tears to my eyes. It had been so long since he\u2019d spoken to me with that kind of expansive generosity.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAfter a while, Dunham says she suggested to the guitarist that \u201cperhaps their closeness was striking an odd note, that [the unnamed pop star] wanted something from him that he couldn\u2019t give.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tShe says she also expressed feeling \u201clike a ghost\u201d whenever she saw the two of them together, to which she claims Antonoff replied, \u201c\u2018You\u2019re just mad because she doesn\u2019t want to be your friend.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cAnd he was right,\u201d Dunham added while also acknowledging, \u201cI had observed careful boundaries [in our relationship] \u2026 If I\u2019d wanted to look, perhaps I may have seen that Jack was not observing them as closely as I was.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBillboard has reached out to Antonoff\u2019s reps for comment.<\/p>\n

\n\tDunham and the former Fun band member have since gone on to marry other people, with the former wedding Luis Felber in 2021 and the latter tying the knot with Margaret Qualley in 2023. Elsewhere in Famesick, the director shares details of her emotional breakup from Antonoff and admits to cheating on him with a former middle school flame days before their split.<\/p>\n

\n\tAntonoff\u2019s work as a producer has only expanded exponentially in the years since the time period described in Dunham\u2019s memoir. In 2022, he won his first of three consecutive Grammys for producer of the year, nonclassical, and has worked on Billboard 200<\/a>-topping albums by Taylor Swift, Kendrick Lamar and Sabrina Carpenter.<\/p>\n

\n\tHis band Bleachers is currently gearing up to drop new album Everyone for Ten Minutes in May.<\/p>\n


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