Lena Dunham Apologizes to Odell Beckham Jr.: 'I Feel Terrible'

Lena Dunham has written a lengthy statement apologizing to football player Odell Beckham Jr. for the comments she made about their experience at the Met Gala.

The Girls actress said that she was sitting next to Odell at dinner and “he looked at me and he determined I was not the shape of a woman by his standards.” She later faced criticism for making assumptions about his thoughts without actually speaking to him or getting to know him.

“I owe Odell Beckham Jr an apology. Despite my moments of bravado, I struggle at industry events (and in life) with the sense that I don’t rep a certain standard of beauty and so when I show up to the Met Ball surrounded by models and swan-like actresses it’s hard not to feel like a sack of flaming garbage,” Lena wrote on Instagram. “This felt especially intense with a handsome athlete as my dinner companion and a bunch of women I was sure he’d rather be seated with. But I went ahead and projected these insecurities and made totally narcissistic assumptions about what he was thinking, then presented those assumptions as facts.”

“I feel terrible about it. Because after listening to lots of valid criticism, I see how unfair it is to ascribe misogynistic thoughts to someone I don’t know AT ALL. Like, we have never met, I have no idea the kind of day he’s having or what his truth is,” Lena added. “But most importantly, I would never intentionally contribute to a long and often violent history of the over-sexualization of black male bodies- as well as false accusations by white women towards black men. I’m so sorry, particularly to OBJ, who has every right to be on his cell phone. The fact is I don’t know about his state of mind (I don’t know a lot of things) and I shouldn’t have acted like I did. Much love and thanks, Lena.”

See photos of the stars at the Met Gala in the gallery below.