10 Things We Learned From Lena Dunham On The Breakfast Club

For a quick second not too long ago, Lena Dunham was getting much love for her quirky character on the hit HBO series, Girls. Today the Soho alumni stopped by the Breakfast Club to talk about where it all went wrong for her (see: 13 Beckys On The Verge Of Cancellation*).

Aside from receiving much deserved criticism for the lack of minorities in her Brooklyn based show, Girls, she later found herself dealing with the repercussions of her unwarranted tweets which seemed to shade NFL superstar Odell Beckham Jr. for not acknowledging her at the 2016 Met Gala. And she definitely didn’t endear herself to the Hip-Hop community when she took shots at Kanye West’s “Famous” video using words like “sickening,” “sad,” and “unsafe.” This coming from a woman who’s could’ve ended up on To Catch A Predator, mind you.

Sitting down with Charlamagne Tha God, DJ Envy, and Angela Yee, Lena gets into an array of topics to shed light on why her insecurities tend to get the best of her at the wrong time and takes a minute to give us her version of that age old white person quote, “I do have Black friends.”

Here are the 10 things we learned from Lena Dunham on The Breakfast Club.

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1. White Girl Wasted

She’s an easy drunk. Doesn’t take much to get her lit. Apparently a little wine gets the job done. Should she be admitting this?

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2. Med Head

Lena takes a small amount of meds for her anxiety and OCD. Not surprising for someone who’s been going to therapy since she was 7-years-old. Privileged people problems, you know?

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3. Stalker?

She says that once a guy pretended to be a UPS worker to enter her house and leave some creepy notes.

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4. Girl Gone Wild

She admits to going through a “hoe phase” during her twenties. A lot of that stemmed from her being self-conscious about her body and feeling that she should get what she could when it was offered.

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5. Soft-Core Feminist 

Even though she considers herself a feminist she does appreciate when a man appreciates her physical degree so long as it’s in a respectful manner.

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6. Color Lines

She acknowledges that everyone’s criticism of Girls not having people of color cast on the show is valid and is hoping to make up for it with her newsletter by supporting “female voices of color.”

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7. Black Friends

Contrary to popular belief she does have some “amazing friends who are enlightened, complex, beautiful, multi-faceted Black women.” You could’ve knocked us over with a feather.

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8. Twitter Ventriloquist

She doesn’t run her own Twitter because it “got too violent.” She uses a middleman when it comes to Twitter.

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9. Hillary Clinton

She’s not supporting Hillary Clinton just because she’s a woman, she’s supporting her because she’s the most qualified person for the Presidency.

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10. OBJ

As far as the Odell Beckham Jr. debacle, she owns up to her mistake of “unintentionally perpetuating the stereotype of a Black man as someone who would holler at anything that’s near him.” It only took her a night filled with social media slander for her to realize that, too. She did apologize to him privately.