Lena Dunham breaks down crying in public after memoir hits 'number f---ing 1' on “New York Times” best-seller list
Lena Dunham breaks down crying in public after memoir hits 'number f---ing 1' on “New York Times” best-seller list
Joey NolfiThu, April 23, 2026 at 3:44 PM UTC
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Lena Dunham holding 'Famesick'Credit: Cindy Ord/GettyKey Points -
Lena Dunham shared a video of herself crying in public after her new book Famesick hit No. 1 on the New York Times best-seller list.
The Girls creator and star cried at a restaurant table after getting a phone call about the news.
A person on the other line told her that the book reached "number f---ing one, baby."
Lena Dunham, the Girls creator and star behind Hannah "Voice of a Generation" Horvath, just got the phone call of a lifetime with news about her new book Famesick.
The 39-year-old author and actress shared a video of herself getting emotional at a restaurant when she got a call from her team, during which they revealed that her memoir hit the No. 1 spot on the New York Times best-seller list.
“Guess what number you are?" an unidentified person says on the line, before another says, "Number f---ing one, baby!"
Dunham then puts her head in her hand and weeps over the reveal. A person on the other end adds that the title sold close to "60,000 copies in week one."
“You’re joking guys!” Dunham exclaims. “No way!”
In the caption of the video, Dunham wrote that she's "screaming, crying, throwing up," and references the fact that she outlines in the new memoir her various health struggles that led her to do the same.
"But this time it’s for a much more joyful reason: I am bowled over by the support you have shown Famesick. Almost two decades into my career, I know enough to know what a rare and special thing is to feel seen and heard, and this release has given me the opportunity to see and hear so many of you. I missed that," she wrote. "And I don’t take a single one of you for granted."
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Dunham's Famesick, her latest nonfiction book following 2014's Not That Kind of Girl and 2016's Is it Evil Not to be Sure?, includes several recollections from her past that made major headlines across the last week.
From outlining alleged drama between Girls costars Jemima Kirke and Zosia Mamet to what she claimed was volatile behavior by Girls actor Adam Driver, Famesick traces Dunham's personal and professional experiences since rising to stardom on the beloved HBO series. (Representatives for Driver did not respond to Entertainment Weekly’s request for comment.)
Lena DunhamCredit: The Hapa Blonde/GC Images
Elsewhere in the book, Dunham also opened up about her fallout with fellow Girls creative Jenni Konner, with whom she also published the popular Lenny Letter newsletter from 2015-18.
Still, despite revealing complications stemming from the dramedy series, the Tiny Furniture and Catherine Called Birdy director said she's open to reprising the role of Hannah in a Girls movie.
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"I have to say, I got a little plot line in my brain. I do," Dunham told Andy Cohen during a recent interview on Radio Andy. "It's impossible not to think about where they are now."
Famesick is in stores now. Watch Dunham break down in tears in the video above.
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