In an interview with Fresh Air ‘s Terry Gross, Girls’ creator and star Lena Dunham opened up about being sexually assaulted in college. The 28-year-old author also revealed why she detailed the experience in her first memoir, Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She’s “Learned.” Dunham called it “the chapter about date rape.” Dunham recalled, “It was a painful experience physically and emotionally and one I spent a long time trying to reconcile.” Adding, “I actually [have] been thinking about it a lot this week because I sent an email to somebody who I had known at that time who knew the guy who had perpetrated the act…I wanted to make it clear to this old friend what I felt had happened before he potentially…read about it.”
