Lena Dunham is looking back at her professional break-up with Jenni Konner.
If you didn’t know, Lena, 39, and Jenni, 54, used to be very good friends and worked together on Girls as co-showrunners and writers. They also ran the newsletter Lenny Letter together from 2015 to 2018.
In 2018, they released a joint statement where they announced that they will no longer be working together.
Ahead of the release of her new memoir Famesick, Lena spoke to The New York Times where she made some rare comments about her falling out with Jenni.
Keep reading to find out more…“I was extremely naïve about the fact that when you work with people and your creative, financial futures are intertwined, there are going to be moments where that is in tension with friendship,” Lena said. “I was desperately looking for safety and a sense of security and something that felt unconditional. Business relationships are conditional. They have to be.”
She went on to note that she was “not an adult” and still living with her parents when she began working with Jenni.
“I remember my father being like, ‘Not everybody says I love you to everyone they work with and sleeps over at their house,’” Lena recalled. “As a 40-year-old, I can now recognize that I was looking for a different kind of relationship than the one that work can provide.”
When asked if there was a way that she and Jenni could have continue working together, Lena said she made a “necessary break with everything.”
“There was a moment where I broke up with my business partner, I broke up with my partner, I had a hysterectomy, I stepped back from work,” she shared. “I went from full-on to sitting in a back room in my parents’ apartment in silence, collaging letters together.”
In Famesick, which will be released on April 14, Lena alleges that Adam Driver was rude to her at times while working on Girls.
