--- title: Lena Dunham Praises Taylor Swift Assault Trial Testimony description: Taylor Swift goes to court in assault case with support of her friend Lena Dunham canonical: https://time.com/4896978/lena-dunham-praises-taylor-swift-testimony/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-08-11T15:17:31.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:46:23.473Z og:title: Lena Dunham Praises Taylor Swift’s 'Fierce' Trial Testimony og:description: Taylor Swift's squad has her back during groping trial og:url: https://time.com/4896978/lena-dunham-praises-taylor-swift-testimony/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Lena Dunham Praises Taylor Swift’s 'Fierce' Trial Testimony twitter:description: Taylor Swift's squad has her back during groping trial twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # 'Her Example Is Powerful.' Lena Dunham Steps In to Support Taylor Swift’s Testimony by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Aug 11, 2017 3:17 PM UTC by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Aug 11, 2017 3:17 PM UTC Taylor Swift is [in court](http://time.com/4895472/taylor-swift-groping-trial-witness-stand/) testifying against a former Denver DJ whom she claims groped her in 2013 — and Lena Dunham has her back. After [Swift](http://time.com/4694697/taylor-swift-new-album-2017/) took the stand to testify against David Mueller, Dunham, her friend, tweeted out a show of support. “Proud of @taylorswift13 for her fierce & cutting testimony & her refusal to settle for being treated like property,” Dunham [tweeted](https://twitter.com/lenadunham/status/895862148362063872). “Her example is powerful.” The _Girls_ creator’s message of support came after Swift [took the stand](http://time.com/4889473/taylor-swift-groping-case/) to testify about the event where she claims Mueller grabbed her under her skirt during a fan meet-and-greet. “It was a definite grab, \[a\] very long grab,” Swift said in court in Thursday. “It was long enough for me to be completely sure it was intentional.” [Swift](http://time.com/3823888/taylor-swift-2015-time-100/) spent almost an hour testifying about the experience. Mueller has denied the claim, which he said led to him getting fired. He sued Swift, prompting her to countersue. Mueller is seeking $3 million, while Swift’s countersuit is seeking just a symbolic $1 in damages. See Dunham’s show of support below. > [](https://twitter.com/lenadunham/status/895862148362063872) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4896978/lena-dunham-praises-taylor-swift-testimony/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4896978/lena-dunham-praises-taylor-swift-testimony/"},"headline":"'Her Example Is Powerful.' Lena Dunham Steps In to Support Taylor Swift’s Testimony","datePublished":"2017-08-11T15:17:31.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:46:23.473Z","description":"Swift's squad has her back during groping trial","url":"https://time.com/4896978/lena-dunham-praises-taylor-swift-testimony/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Sexual Assault","lena dunham","celebrities","Taylor Swift","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4896978/lena-dunham-praises-taylor-swift-testimony/","name":"'Her Example Is Powerful.' Lena Dunham Steps In to Support Taylor Swift’s Testimony"}}]}] ```