Lena Dunham Leaves Twitter Citing Abuse

“It turned into the most rabid, disgusting comments about my body, and my Instagram page was somehow the hub for misogynists for the afternoon”, she recalled. “When Dunham’s lawyer asked them to take down the quotes, they responded by appending commentary deriding the “‘I workshopped it at Oberlin’ level of quality” and “nauseating and cloying posture of precociousness that permeates the entire proposal”. I don’t even know my Twitter password, which may make me seem like I’m no longer a sort of genuine community user. “For me, personally, it was safer to stop”.

“There are marked incidences of girls committing suicide after massive Twitter bullying”, Dunham said.

The actress, who is dating guitarist Jack Antonoff (a member of the band Fun), says being constantly exposed to such negativity can create “cancerous stuff inside you” and she decided enough was enough.

She’s one of the gutsiest young stars in the spotlight, but even Lena Dunham has her limits.

TBH this was a rough week. “I started working on this show when I was 23, and now I’m going to be 30 so it kind of feels right that this show kind of sandwiched my 20s and then I go off into the world!” I wanted to crumple into a pile or hide like a sweatshirt in the lost and found. And I felt as though there wasn’t a way to ask for the space and time I needed without hurting someone else.

The Girls creator, who has nearly three million followers on Twitter, now relies on another person to publish her posts.

“A couple of weeks ago I put up an Instagram picture of me – I thought it was amusing – and I had to wear my boyfriend’s underwear because my dog literally ate all my under trousers”, she told Swisher.