Nine years after HBO’s “Girls” came to an end, Lena Dunham is speaking candidly about her professional relationship with her former co-star and on-screen love interest Adam Driver.

On Tuesday, Dunham unveiled “Famesick: A Memoir,” in which she described Driver’s behavior on the set of “Girls” as “short-tempered and verbally aggressive, condescending and physically imposing,” and noted that the two haven’t spoken since their series came to an end in 2017 after six seasons.

The eight-time Emmy nominee singled out an incident that took place during the filming of an early sex scene involving her and Driver as indicative of her co-star’s mercurial temperament.

“He hurled me this way and that,” she wrote, according to Variety. “Stunned, I couldn’t speak for a moment, unsure of what had happened — had I lost directorial authority, allowed the scene to go off the rails, not given proper instructions? Would I be removed from my command post immediately?”

“It wasn’t that I felt violated — and I also wouldn’t know if I had, as there was little in my sexual life that I hadn’t allowed to happen, and for no pay,” she continued. “But I felt that something intimate, confusing and primal had played out in a scenario I was meant to control.”

Dunham also alleged Driver “didn’t answer any of my calls for the next three weeks” after shooting the series’ pilot and, while in rehearsals for a later episode, became violent when she forgot her lines.

“I’d known them only minutes before,” she explained. “But when I opened my mouth, all that came out was a stammer — until finally, Adam screamed, ‘FUCKING SAY SOMETHING’ and hurled a chair at the wall next to me. ‘WAKE THE FUCK UP,’ he told me. ‘I’M SICK OF WATCHING YOU JUST STARE.’”

Driver, whose credits also include “BlacKkKlansman” and “Marriage Story,” has yet to respond publicly to Dunham’s claims. A representative for the actor did not immediately respond to HuffPost’s request for comment.

Dunham was just 25 when “Girls” landed her on the Hollywood map in 2012. The semi-autobiographical series, which Dunham also wrote and created, followed the lives and loves of four 20-something women in New York and broke fresh ground for its frank portrayal of female sexuality.

When asked if she’d ever confronted Driver about his actions, she told The Guardian, “At the time, I didn’t have the skill to … it never entered my mind to say, ‘I am your boss, you can’t speak to me this way.’ And, at that point in my 20s, I still thought that’s what great male geniuses do: eviscerate you.”

In a separate interview with People this week, Dunham described Driver as “very talented” and “charismatic,” and said she had “a lot of empathy” for the actor, who was gaining recognition for his portrayal of Kylo Ren in the “Star Wars” franchise at the same time as “Girls” was airing.

“For better or worse, it was all of our first jobs. I think Adam went on a very specific ride because he had the ride of the show and then also the ride of becoming a major movie star at the same time,” she told the outlet. “So he was on these two tracks, and he’s a very, very serious work-focused private person ... the goal was never to make Adam seem like he was in any way the outlier of the show, but just to talk about how complex and confusing those first experiences of trying to be a boss were.”

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