Lena Dunham to amend memoir following legal threat over sexual assault details

Future editions of Not That Kind of Girl will be altered to clarify that alleged attacker’s name is a pseudonym after man matching description of ‘Barry’ takes legal action

Lena Dunham and her publisher have agreed to make clear that the writer and actor is using a pseudonym when she refers to a Republican named Barry who allegedly sexually assaulted her when she was at college.

In her bestselling memoir Not That Kind of Girl, the Girls creator writes of how, during a sexual encounter with a fellow Oberlin College student, he removed his condom without asking her permission. “I’m not sure whether I can’t stop it or I don’t want to,” she writes of the experience in her memoir, later noting: “At no moment did I consent to being handled that way. I never gave him permission to be rough, to stick himself inside me without a barrier between us. I never gave him permission. In my deepest self I know this, and the knowledge of it has kept me from sinking.”

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