--- title: Lena Dunham Fires Back at Sexual Abuse Allegations description: The 'Girls' actress hits back at right-wing media allegations that she molested her younger sister canonical: https://time.com/3554403/lena-dunham-rage-spiral-media/ author: Maya Rhodan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-11-03T15:14:40.000Z article:modified_time: 2023-12-14T00:56:02.000Z og:title: Lena Dunham Goes on 'Rage Spiral' After Abuse Allegations og:description: She hits back at right-wing media accusations that she molested her younger sister og:url: https://time.com/3554403/lena-dunham-rage-spiral-media/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte7698b3597becf68/698763daf887dced29e87db1/ap249428942437.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Lena Dunham og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Lena Dunham Goes on 'Rage Spiral' After Abuse Allegations twitter:description: She hits back at right-wing media accusations that she molested her younger sister twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte7698b3597becf68/698763daf887dced29e87db1/ap249428942437.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Lena Dunham Goes on 'Rage Spiral' After Abuse Allegations by [Maya Rhodan](https://time.com/author/maya-rhodan/) ## Maya Rhodan Updated: Dec 14, 2023 12:56 AM UTCPublished: Nov 3, 2014 3:14 PM UTC  U.S actress Lena Dunham holds her memoir, Not That Kind Of Girl, ahead of a book signing at Waterstones, Piccadilly in central London, Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2014 U.S actress Lena Dunham holds her memoir, Not That Kind Of Girl, ahead of a book signing at Waterstones, Piccadilly in central London, Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2014Joel Ryan—Joel Ryan/Invision/AP by [Maya Rhodan](https://time.com/author/maya-rhodan/) ## Maya Rhodan Updated: Dec 14, 2023 12:56 AM UTCPublished: Nov 3, 2014 3:14 PM UTC _Girls_ star Lena Dunham went on a self-described “[rage spiral](https://twitter.com/lenadunham/status/528614984214118400)” over the weekend in response to conservative media allegations that, as a child, she molested her younger sister. In her memoir _Not That Kind of Girl_, Dunham writes about bribing her little sister, Grace, with candy in exchange for kisses as a child. “Basically, anything a sexual predator might do to woo a small suburban girl I was trying,” Dunham writes. She also details an instance where, as a 7-year-old, she examined her baby sister’s vagina. Several [right-wing blogs](http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/lena-dunham-describes-sexually-abusing-her-toddler-sister#.VFHgN4sm07g.facebook) have blasted the story as admitted abuse. A fed-up Dunham took to Twitter on Nov. 1 to express her outrage at the allegations. > [](https://twitter.com/lenadunham/status/528613546108944384) > [](https://twitter.com/lenadunham/status/528613664182796289) > [](https://twitter.com/lenadunham/status/528613927631208448) > [](https://twitter.com/lenadunham/status/528614538586116097) > [](https://twitter.com/lenadunham/status/528614984214118400) Dunham’s sister, Grace, has also commented about the backlash: > [](https://twitter.com/simongdunham/status/529317449221824512) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3554403/lena-dunham-rage-spiral-media/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3554403/lena-dunham-rage-spiral-media/"},"headline":"Lena Dunham Goes on 'Rage Spiral' After Abuse Allegations","datePublished":"2014-11-03T15:14:40.000Z","dateModified":"2023-12-14T00:56:02.000Z","description":"She hits back at right-wing media accusations that she molested her younger sister","url":"https://time.com/3554403/lena-dunham-rage-spiral-media/","keywords":["Living","lena dunham","celebrities","abuse"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte7698b3597becf68/698763daf887dced29e87db1/ap249428942437.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Maya Rhodan","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/maya-rhodan/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte7698b3597becf68/698763daf887dced29e87db1/ap249428942437.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Lena Dunham","caption":"Lena Dunham","creditText":"Joel Ryan—Joel Ryan/Invision/AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"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-living/","name":"Living"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3554403/lena-dunham-rage-spiral-media/","name":"Lena Dunham Goes on 'Rage Spiral' After Abuse Allegations"}}]}] ```