The “Girls” creator also opened up about whether she’s seen Konner’s latest show, “Nobody Wants This.”

Lena Dunham reveals if she’s in touch with Girls collaborator Jenni Konner after falling-out

The "Girls" creator also opened up about whether she's seen Konner's latest show, "Nobody Wants This."

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Jenni Konner and Lena Dunham in 2018. Credit:

- Lena Dunham is revealing whether or not she's still in contact with former *Girls* collaborator Jenni Konner.

- The former friends and creative partners went their separate ways in 2018.

- "It was one of the most important relationships in my life," said Dunham, 39, who said she supports Konner, 54, by watching her Netflix show *Nobody Wants This.*

Lena Dunham is opening up about the aftermath of her falling-out with her former *Girls* collaborator Jenni Konner.

In her new memoir *Famesick*, Dunham, 39, divulges several new details about her partnership with Konner, 54, and the circumstances that led them to part ways. Now that the book is has arrived in stores, fans are wondering: where do the pair of writers stand today?

"We're not in touch," Dunham revealed to Andy Cohen during a Wednesday visit to SiriusXM's *Radio Andy*. "But she's working on the great show *Nobody Wants This*. I watch, I cheer. So, you know, sometimes you just have a love for someone from a distance."

Adam Brody and Kristen Bell on 'Nobody Wants This'.

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Dunham and Konner worked together on their Emmy-winning series *Girls *as co-showrunners and writers for all six seasons. They also ran a newsletter, *Lenny Letter*, together, started a production company, and co-created the 2018 HBO comedy *Camping*. But the same year the show aired its one-and-only season, they announced they would be going their separate ways creatively. And according to Dunham, their friendship came to an end.

"It was one of the most important relationships in my life," Dunham told Cohen during their chat. "We had an eight-year partnership. It defines so much, I have so much respect for her and gratitude."

She continued, "I think one of the reasons that I attached so ferociously was also that these other relationships, families, friendships were splintering. And this person became my central focus. I understand now that we have to, you know, diversify our friendships. You cannot ask one person to be everything."

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When Cohen asked whether Dunham sent Konner the *Famesick* manuscript, she replied, "I let someone know that it was coming."

In her book, Dunham wrote that the last time she ever saw Konner was at a therapy session meant to help them repair their friendship. It occurred after Dunham underwent a hysterectomy in late 2017 and went to rehab for an addiction to anxiety medication. She claimed that she did not tell many people, including Konner, about her struggles, and after reaching her 62 days sober milestone, set up the therapy appointment.

Jenni Korner and Lena Dunham in 2017.

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"You do not make me feel safe or proud, and I cannot speak to you until we are in front of a therapist," Dunham wrote in the book.

The *Famesick* author recounted having an emotional reaction during the therapy session and said that in the end, Konner thanked the therapist and left — but not before asking Dunham to not "write about this immediately."

Reflecting on the anecdote, Dunham told Cohen, "She knew me so well. She knows me so well and everyone also had seen me live my life and then immediately regurgitate it into the show for years. That's why they bought me. My methods were very clear and I think what she was saying was the best advice, which was like, 'Give it a second.'"

Dunham added that she has a lot more perspective on the situation now, as a nearly 40-year-old woman, noting that she was just 31 at the time, with Konner was more than a decade older than her.

Lena Dunham in 2019.

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"It's really interesting because I remember this kind of messy youth and having these really amazing older female friends who I thought, like, they're not really that interested in hearing about the machinations of my relationship with this boy who only wears mesh running shorts," she joked. "And then you become older and you're like, yeah 'cause you've got a job and a family and an aging parent and being a woman is like obligation after obligation… You’ve got to age to know that."

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Dunham also expressed understanding for Konner when Cohen pointed out that the way she is described in *Famesick* makes it sound as though she was not able to support Dunham throughout her health struggles.

"If I was an adult with two children and a partner and a job, I would also say like, 'Go to the people whose kind of job it is to take care of you. I was given a different job, which is to make a show with you,'" Dunham said. "My father likes to say, 'l've never met a boundary I can't erode.' And I am learning them."

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