Lena Dunham's Reps Deny Donald Glover's Claim She Used Racial Slur on 'Girls' Set
Lena Dunham‘s reps have responded to a joke told by Donald Glover at this past weekend’s WGA Awards.
At the show, Donald presented Atlanta executive producer Paul Simms with an honorary award named the Sargent Award. The Sargent Award is named after former SNL writer Herb Sargent.
In his speech, Donald kicked things off with, “Chevy Chase once called Herb one of the funniest writers working in television. Chevy Chase once called me….You know what? This is about Paul.”
He continued about Paul Simms, “I was on the set of Girls after filming a sex scene for like eight hours, which they cut down to two minutes. I’ve never seen any of the rest of that footage. I asked Lena [Dunham], ‘Hey, what made you decide to work with Paul [Simms, an executive producer on Girls]?’ And she goes ‘Honestly, this N— lets me do whatever I want.’ And I remember thinking two things. One, Lena is using the N-word extremely liberally. Who does she think she is, Chevy Chase? And two, that’s the kind of producer I want.”
Now, Lena‘s reps are issuing a response to these statements.
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Lena‘s representatives told Just Jared, “Donald Glover told a joke referencing Lena Dunham for last night’s WGA Awards. It included, for effect, language Lena never used, nor would use. Full stop.”
There have been unflattering reports about Chevy Chase over the years, with one SNL star calling him racist.