Lena Dunham is never one to hold back, and her latest essay published in the Sunday Times was no exception.
The essay will be published alongside works by Emma Thompson and Emilia Clark’s work in the book “It’s Not OK To Be Blue (and Other Lies)” by Scarlett Curtis.
Dunham’s essay dives into her struggle with mental health and the comment she realized she needed to seek professional help.
Dunham wrote, “I was sick, skinny and addicted to pills. Even texts intimated me, and so I went off to treatment to face my pain.”
She revealed that therapy didn’t help to remove her writer’s block at first, “All day therapy, all night a blank computer screen,” she said.
Luckily, her adopted brother Spike suggested art therapy, which Dunham claims was a total breakthrough.
He told her, “If you can’t write it, draw it.”

Dunham revealed the moment she realized she needed to end her long-term relationship with musician Jack Antanoff while she was away in therapy.
“On my overnight with my boyfriend at a local inn, I drew him sleeping on the bed after the final time we had s*x, and as I sketched I realized I would drown alive if he didn’t let go of me.”

Dunham and Antanoff ended their 5-year relationship back in December 2017.

It’s Not OK To Be Blue (and Other Lies) hits shelves on October 3rd.
Last Updated on September 24, 2019 by Anastasia Ross