Allison Williams has reacted to her former Girls costar Lena Dunham‘s latest tell-all memoir.
“I need to read more before I say anything about it,” Williams, 38, said in an interview with Variety on Tuesday, April 14.
Williams explained she was at the portion of the book where Dunham, 39, wrote about the table read for the hit HBO show’s pilot. Williams joked she thought Dunham was going to write about her showing up “40 minutes late,” but that wasn’t the case.
“We’re in touch all the time,” Williams said of her current relationship with Dunham. “She would have definitely mentioned that ‘I’m going to ruin your life with this book.’ We love each other. It’s a lifelong bond. It’s the best.”
In Dunham’s latest book Famesick, which hit shelves on Tuesday, the actress opened up about her bond with costar Adam Driver. Dunham shared that she developed feelings for her on-screen love interest. (Dunham played lead Hannah, while Driver portrayed her on-again, off-again boyfriend Adam on Girls, which ran for six seasons from 2012 to 2017.)
“One Saturday afternoon, as I reached for a glass of water in his galley kitchen and chatted offhandedly about something meaningless, I looked up to see him smiling at me with something so tender, it felt like it could only have been love,” she wrote. “It disarmed me so totally that I dropped my glass.”
Dunham also claimed that she and Driver “fought often” but there was an “intensity” to their connection.
“Sometimes I’d tell him he made me feel safe,” she wrote. “I didn’t yet understand that sometimes you say what you wish were true, instead of just saying what is.”
Dunham recalled an alleged instance where Driver came to visit her while she was home alone when her parents were out of town. (The actress has lived with her family on and off throughout her career.)
“During this week — the week my parents were out of town, when his girlfriend was doing a play in Cincinnati — he was pure concern, pure laughter, pure gold,” she recalled. “But that week, the week of my empty apartment, he came over almost every night.”
Dunham continued, “On Friday, he called me as he was leaving the theater. ‘You still home alone, Dunham?’ I was. ‘OK. I’m riding down to you. But I’m warning you, if I come up, I’m not leaving this time.’”
Driver allegedly called Dunham when he was outside her home but she “didn’t answer” the phone.
“Some part of me knew — some wise part of me, some bold part of me — that if we crossed whatever boundary we were threatening to cross, the return to work would be tinged with humiliation,” she wrote. “That I’d be minimizing any authority I still had, and that, however it went, my heart-bruised but improbably not yet broken-would crack.”
Dunham claimed that she and Driver “never” talked about that night. The actor got engaged one month later. (He has been married to Joanne Tucker since 2013.)
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