Lena Dunham Gets Owned By Truth Revolt After Lawyers Send Cease And Desist To Website

Well, Lena Dunham might rue the day she ever messed with Truth Revolt, an outlet who published a scathing comeback article titled “Lena Dunham Threatens To Sue Truth Revolt For Quoting Her” after the news outlet published excerpts from Dunham’s book that detailed her exploits with her younger sister when Lena was also an adolescent and teenager.

Apparently, the melee began when certain excerpts from Dunham’s book, titled Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She’s Learned, hit the Internet and various publications took exception to the contents, particularly troubling references to sexual experimentations with Lena and her younger sister.

Lena Dunham Goes on ‘Rage Spiral’ After Abuse Allegations, reported Time, which featured responses from not only Lena’s Twitter timeline, but also those from Grace Dunham, the younger sister at the center of the controversy.

The continued rage, however, came into play when Lena allegedly had her lawyers fire off a letter threatening Truth Revolt, even suggesting how their mea culpa should be worded.

“We recently published a story stating that Ms. [Lena] Dunham engaged in sexual conduct with her sister. The story was false, and we deeply regret having printed it. We apologize to Ms. Dunham, her sister, and their parents, for this false story.”

Truth Revolt did not kowtow to the pressure, and instead, focused on the direct quotes from Lena’s book that began the controversy.

“Do we all have uteruses?” I asked my mother when I was seven.

“Yes,” she told me. “We’re born with them, and with all our eggs, but they start out very small. And they aren’t ready to make babies until we’re older.”

I looked at my sister, now a slim, tough one-year-old, and at her tiny belly. I imagined her eggs inside her, like the sack of spider eggs in Charlotte’s Web, and her uterus, the size of a thimble.

“Does her vagina look like mine?”

“I guess so,” my mother said. “Just smaller.”

One day, as I sat in our driveway in Long Island playing with blocks and buckets, my curiosity got the best of me. Grace was sitting up, babbling and smiling, and I leaned down between her legs and carefully spread open her vagina. She didn’t resist, and when I saw what was inside I shrieked. “My mother came running. “Mama, Mama! Grace has something in there!”

My mother didn’t bother asking why I had opened Grace’s vagina. This was within the spectrum of things that I did. She just got on her knees and looked for herself. It quickly became apparent that Grace had stuffed six or seven pebbles in there. My mother removed them patiently while Grace cackled, thrilled that her prank had been such a success.

Other controversial Lena Dunham excerpts.

“As she grew, I took to bribing her for her time and affection: one dollar in quarters if I could do her makeup like a ‘motorcycle chick.’ Three pieces of candy if I could kiss her on the lips for five seconds. Whatever she wanted to watch on TV if she would just “relax on me.” Basically, anything a sexual predator might do to woo a small suburban girl I was trying.”

And Lena Dunham continued writing.

“I shared a bed with my sister, Grace, until I was seventeen years old. She was afraid to sleep alone and would begin asking me around 5:00 P.M. every day whether she could sleep with me. I put on a big show of saying no, taking pleasure in watching her beg and sulk, but eventually I always relented. Her sticky, muscly little body thrashed beside me every night as I read Anne Sexton, watched reruns of SNL, sometimes even as I slipped my hand into my underwear to figure some stuff out.”

Therefore, this may in all actuality be a case whereby Lena Dunham didn’t anticipate the reactions of the reading public to her memoir, and regretted her confession upon viewing the backlash. This is one story that probably won’t go away as readily as Lena Dunham dyeing her hair blonde, as reported by the Inquisitr back in August.