Lena Dunham revisited a decades-old issue with Seth Meyers when appearing on his talk show, Late Night with Seth Meyers.
The Girls actor and creator, 39, playfully called out the presenter, 52, for not helping her rewrite her Saturday Night Live monologue in 2014.
Dunham suggested that Meyers’ failure to assist her might have been the catalyst for a series of dramatic events that later unfolded - namely her HBO show Girls ending and her having a hysterectomy.
“There’s something I’ve been holding onto since then that I was hoping we could talk about,” Dunham began jokingly. “I want you to know I’m not mad at you, but I think it’s better that we just put it out in the open now.”
“Yeah, totally,” Meyers agreed. “And I’m glad we didn’t do it backstage.”
The Too much creator then claimed that Meyers, who had just left SNL to host his own talk show, stopped by the studios while she was preparing to host the sketch show for the first and only time in March 2014.
“You came up to visit… and I said, ‘Seth, I’m having a lot of trouble with my monologue, and I’m trying to rewrite it, do you think you could stay here for a couple minutes and help me?’” she recalled. “And you went, ‘No.’”
Dunham insisted she wasn’t “upset” at the time - but joked Meyers’ refusal may have completely changed her life’s trajectory.
“I was like, ‘Huh. A lot of really hard stuff happened to me over the last 10 years.’ It’s in the book, I don’t know if you read it yet,” she said, referring to her recently-released memoir Famesick.
“And maybe, had my monologue gone better... Girls might still be on the air. I might not have had some of these really trying times.
“I may not have had to have uterus removed, Seth.”
Meyers mock-gasped at the actor, exclaiming: “Oh my God.
“So you’re thinking if I had helped - just not even written it, just helped a little bit - you’d still have your uterus?”
When Dunham jokingly agreed, he shot back, “You know what? I still have no regrets,” prompting them both to burst out laughing.
The comedian then backtracked and said sarcastically: "I'm so sorry, Lena."
Dunham said she doesn’t have regrets either “because I got to put it all into this story”.
The pair appeared to mend their relationship by the end of their interview, with Dunham signing Meyers’ copy of Famesick.
“Dear Seth, I’m not angry,” she wrote. “I love you very much, but only as a friend.”
Dunham wrote and starred in the hit comedy-drama Girls, which ran for six seasons from 2012 and made stars out of the cast, including Dunham, Adam Driver, Jemima Kirke, and Allison Williams.
She later created the Netflix comedy Too Much - but refused to star in it due to the body-shaming comments she faced while appearing in Girls.
The actor told The New Yorker she was “just not up for having my body dissected again”, and added she would also not be performing in any of her other forthcoming projects.
