{"id":379415,"date":"2026-04-14T19:06:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T19:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/379415\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T19:06:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T19:06:10","slug":"lena-dunham-recalls-ex-jack-antonoffs-closeness-with-a-teen-pop-star-striking-an-odd-note","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/379415\/","title":{"rendered":"Lena Dunham Recalls Ex Jack Antonoff\u2019s \u2018Closeness\u2019 With a \u2018Teen Pop Star\u2019 Striking \u2018an Odd Note\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lena Dunham is pulling no punches in her new memoir, Famesick \u2014 and the revelations inside are adding fresh fuel to years-old speculation about her ex-boyfriend Jack Antonoff and singer Lorde.<\/p>\n

According to Entertainment Weekly<\/a>, the Girls alum<\/a> recalls confronting Antonoff about his \u201ccloseness\u201d with an unnamed \u201cteen pop star\u201d whose album he was producing, writing that the dynamic had begun \u201cstriking an odd note.\u201d While she never names the artist outright in the book, which hit shelves Tuesday, April 14, the description has fans connecting familiar dots.<\/p>\n

Antonoff famously produced Lorde\u2019s critically acclaimed sophomore album, Melodrama, which was released in June 2017. (Lorde is now 29.) The two musicians spent significant time together during that collaboration.<\/p>\n

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Those who\u2019ve followed the saga will remember that Dunham and Lorde were once incredibly close \u2014 the \u201cRoyals\u201d singer even lived with Dunham for a period of time, according to Grazia<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But that friendship abruptly ended after Dunham and Antonoff split after five years together in 2018, and he was spotted looking cozy with Lorde (real name: Ella Yelich-O\u2019Connor) on multiple occasions.\u00a0 \u201cI don\u2019t think anything happened between them,\u201d Dunham told The Cut<\/a> in 2018, but added, \u201cI have never spoken to Ella about it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was awful, and I couldn\u2019t do anything about it except trust that what he was saying to me was true,\u201d she said at the time.<\/p>\n

In Famesick, the Once Upon a Time in Hollywood actress admits<\/a> boundary issues weren\u2019t one-sided in the relationship. She writes that she \u201chad observed careful boundaries, never taking it far enough that I could be declared out of bounds,\u201d before pointedly adding that Jack may not have been \u201cobserving them as closely\u201d as she was.<\/p>\n

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But after her 2018 hysterectomy, she reconnected with a middle-school ex named Nick, admitting she was \u201cready to do adultery.\u201d The affair lasted several days before she and Antonoff tearfully ended things.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

This story Lena Dunham Recalls Ex Jack Antonoff\u2019s \u2018Closeness\u2019 With a \u2018Teen Pop Star\u2019 Striking \u2018an Odd Note\u2019<\/a> first appeared on InTouch Weekly<\/a>. Add InTouch Weekly as a Preferred Source by clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lena Dunham is pulling no punches in her new memoir, Famesick \u2014 and the revelations inside are adding…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379416,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,156,57797,17167,111,139,69,197503],"class_list":{"0":"post-379415","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-jack-antonoff","11":"tag-lena-dunham","12":"tag-new-zealand","13":"tag-newzealand","14":"tag-nz","15":"tag-singer-lorde"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}