Driver brushes off Dunham allegations as material for ‘his book’

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Adam Driver has told Cannes Film Festival, perhaps jokingly, that he is “saving” his response to allegations by former Girls’ castmate Lena Dunham for his own book. In Famesick, a New York Times bestseller, Dunham accused Driver of becoming “verbally aggressive” after she forgot her lines and throwing a chair at the wall next to her. Dunham’s book is strikingly open about her rise to celebrity, health issues and difficult relationships. Her 2014 memoir was acquired in a deal worth $3.5m. It is unclear what Famesick commanded but it sold nearly 60,000 copies in its first week. If Driver makes good on his suggestion that he will write his own tell-all, he could compete with these numbers.

Further reading: In Famesick, Lena Dunham tells the whole, painful truth