Lena Dunham Seemingly Responds to Recent Criticism

Lena Dunham did an Instagram Live earlier today where she seemingly addressed various stories about her, including Tessa Thompson‘s comments about her involvement in Time’s Up and her breakup with Jack Antonoff.

While she didn’t name any one situation directly, Lena said, “A lot of people were saying really sweet things to me on my Instagram and wanting to know how I was feeling. The thing that I wanted to say was just that, you know, when you’ve had this job for as long as I have, which is seven or eight years now, and you’ve caused some mayhem at times, the internet doesn’t necessarily have the same power that it used to.”

She continued, “When you’ve had this job for as long as I have, you love and admire and are so grateful for the people who show you care. You feel so much gratitude for the care and passion that’s shown to you by the people who admire your work and the rest of the people kind of melt away, because they’re pixels and you’ve got to know what’s in your own heart.”

“I just feel so lucky that I’ve gotten to be a part of so many amazing moments and movements in my career. And I feel really at peace with the fact that there are moments when you are the hero and moments when you are the villain and moments when you are magic and moments when you are less magic. You know what, it’s a journey that has strengthened me in ways that are really, really powerful,” Lena added.

Lena spoke about how she was wearing a ring given to her by Jack, adding, “I’ll always wear [it] because love is a really cool, eternal powerful, eternal thing. It doesn’t have to be defined the way we, in Western culture, define it — as beginning and ends. Things can be, ‘You’re a drop of water and you reenter the ocean.’”