Lena Dunham Reveals How She Got Over Ex Jack Antonoff

Lena Dunham revealed what made her finally moved on from ex-boyfriend Jack Antonoff — her very own eccentric apartment. After years of searching for the best place for her, she now founds one that she feels a great sense of belonging and healing.

The actress, 33, had a rough time in recent years. She was far from grounded as she wanted to be, with the ending of her HBO series “Girls” on April 2017 and then in December of the same year, breaking up with long-time boyfriend musician Jack Antonoff. Their relationship nearly reached six years, so it cannot be underestimated.

In an essay she wrote for Domino magazine’s Fall 2019 issue, Dunham detailed how challenging it was to look for her own place and talked about the second-floor Manhattan rental that was “the one.” She shared that at first, she looked for a place for her and Antonoff, one that they can build a future together in and even consider having and raising children in.

Unbeknownst to her, this new apartment they would share would be the reason why they broke up in the end. She wrote that they moved in together a few years after they started dating. While Antonoff was on tour, Dunham took the liberty to decorate the new apartment. The problem was that he did not like the decorations.

Dunham recalled how she felt she had to compromise her own creative juices to make her boyfriend comfortable and ultimately this became a reason in the tension and wedge between them. When they broke up, her ex was the one who ended up living in that apartment while Dunham found herself buying a new place, without doing much thinking. She regretted it.

“I made a massive real-estate mistake, the kind that nightmares are made of,” she wrote. “I bought something in a state of panic, feeling like if I didn’t put down roots soon I’d float away.”

She ended up selling the house and living from one friend to another. She also spent some nights on hotel rooms and her father’s office, sleeping between two filing cabinets and a box of printer paper as her nightstand. She eventually started to look for a place once more after being labeled a grifter by her dad. She only intended for it to be temporary, but she ended up loving it and not wanting to leave forever.

The second-floor rental she found herself in was facing the street. She liked the fact that she could feel close to the passerby o the street. “When the people on 8 tried to floor-shame me, I told them what I love about 2: If you’re an introvert and often homebound, by illness or sadness or both, it feels like the passersby on the street are right there with you,” she wrote. “They are my built-in friends.”

She also liked the fact that this place allowed her to be near an art supply store, a LifeThyme salad bar, as well as her very own therapist. She shared that she likes the eccentric feel of the building as well as the characteristic of the residents.