{"id":534022,"date":"2026-04-16T11:51:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T11:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/534022\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T11:51:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T11:51:08","slug":"lena-dunham-says-she-felt-like-a-ghost-while-dating-jack-antonoff-seemingly-referencing-his-relationship-with-teen-pop-star-lorde","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/534022\/","title":{"rendered":"Lena Dunham says she felt “like a ghost” while dating Jack Antonoff, seemingly referencing his relationship with “teen pop star” Lorde"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lena Dunham<\/a> has said she felt \u201clike a ghost\u201d while dating Jack Antonoff<\/a>, while seemingly referencing his relationship with a \u201cteen pop star\u201d rumoured to be Lorde<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In her new memoir\u00a0Famesick, the\u00a0Girls\u00a0creator opened up on her relationship with Jack Antonoff. The pair dated from 2012 to 2017.<\/p>\n

Dunham claimed Antonoff became \u201censconced\u201d in their apartment\u2019s recording studio with a certain young pop star that many have guessed to be Lorde. The Kiwi singer-songwriter enlisted Antonoff to produce her sophomore album \u2018Melodrama<\/a>\u2018, which was released in June 2017.<\/p>\n

In the memoir, she also wrote that the popstar referred to her as \u201cAunt Lena\u201d, adding that her \u201cneeds seemed as massive and complex as my own.\u201d Dunham went on to recall finding the unnamed pop star \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 \u201cI was too oblivious to be jealous of [her],\u201d the screenwriter recalls of the young pop star.<\/p>\n

Dunham then told Antonoff that \u201cperhaps their closeness was striking an odd note, that [the unnamed pop star] wanted something from him that he couldn\u2019t give.\u201d She went on to tell Antonoff that she felt \u201clike a ghost\u201d when she saw him and the popstar together \u2013 which Antonoff reportedly replied: \u201cYou\u2019re just mad because she doesn\u2019t want to be your friend.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Dunham went on to add that \u201che was right\u201d, admitting that \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

In the same memoir, Dunham also accused her\u00a0Girls co-star Adam Driver of \u201cferal\u201d behaviour, <\/a>claiming that he threw a chair while they were practising lines together and punched a hole in the wall of his trailer.<\/p>\n

Driver starred as Adam Sackler \u2013 a recovering alcoholic dating Dunham\u2019s Hannah \u2013 in the iconic HBO<\/a> series, which ran from 2012-2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lena Dunham has said she felt \u201clike a ghost\u201d while dating Jack Antonoff, while seemingly referencing his relationship…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":534023,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,128,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-534022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=534022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/534023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}