Did Jack Antonoff have a jumpoff from Lena Dunham & is Lorde the jumpoff?

Clive Davis pre-Grammy Gala & Salute to Industry Icons honoring Debra l. Lee

We recently learned that Lena Dunham and Jack Antonoff broke up. It’s all done and there will be no backsliding, at least in Jack’s case. Lena and Jack reportedly broke up a month or so ago but only got around to announcing it when Lena f–ked up yet again and forced her way into a Time’s Up photo-op. Lena thinks it’s high time we paid attention to her again, and she thinks that she is profoundly sympathetic right now. That’s why she’s pontificating about Western standards for relationships and all that. Just my opinion: Jack was done a while ago and Lena was clinging to him desperately. That’s sort of what Us Weekly says too.

Lena Dunham and Jack Antonoff’s breakup wasn’t quite as surprising to them as it was to their fans.

“They had been slowly breaking up for the last six months. It was very drawn out,” a source tells Us Weekly exclusively. “They took forever to actually break up.” The insider adds: “It just took way too long to pull off the bandaid.”

Us confirmed on Monday, January 8 the couple of five years had split. “Lena and Jack are no longer living together. Their breakup happened in December,” a different insider explained at the time. “Lena doesn’t wish him ill-will. He was her first love. Their split was mutual. The relationship is done.”

The two-time Golden Globe winner and the Bleachers singer, 33, met on a blind date set up by mutual friends in late 2012. He moved into her home in Brooklyn, New York, soon after. On Wednesday, January 10, a source exclusively told Us that the musician is already seeing someone else, noting: “He has moved on.”

The Girls creator, 31, isn’t shocked by her former love’s new romance. “By the end Lena knew he was probably dating someone else,” the first source explains. “But he didn’t cheat.”

Dunham is still deeply saddened by the relationship ending, but she’s finding comfort in her busy career. “Lena is pretty broken up about it, but is distracting herself with work,” says the same insider. “She has a house in Deer Valley with some female writers for Sundance and is excited for a girls’ trip away.”

[From Us Weekly]

What? “By the end Lena knew he was probably dating someone else. But he didn’t cheat.” My interpretation of that is that Jack kept saying they were over and she was like “we’re not over” and he was like “I’m dating someone else” and she was like “there is no beginning and there is no end, just like Western Buddha said!” As for Jack’s new girlfriend… a lot of people think he’s dating Lorde. Perez Hilton thinks so, as do other sites. Apparently, Lena has already deleted a few social media references to Lorde and Jack working together. But Lorde hasn’t deleted her references to Jack. And I was looking through photos of Jack and Lorde from the past year and OMG, they look like they’re in love with each other.

Embed from Getty Images

Embed from Getty Images

New York City Ballet 2017 Fall Fashion Gala - Arrivals

Photos courtesy of Getty, WENN and Lorde’s Instagram.

You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.

108 Responses to “Did Jack Antonoff have a jumpoff from Lena Dunham & is Lorde the jumpoff?”

Comments are Closed

We close comments on older posts to fight comment spam.

  1. Shelley says:

    Couldn’t happen to a nicer person? I hope not because we will NEVER hear the end of it..like Hannah on steroids

    • Malibu Stacy says:

      I’m honestly surprised he lasted as long as he did with Lena.

    • Lucy says:

      Hurrah! Now Taylor doesn’t need to pretend to be friends with Lena!
      Totally shallow but Ella is such a pretty girl isn’t she ? Gorgeous hair .

  2. QueenB says:

    Holy Lorde, those captions on her Instagram, if they were in an official relationship this much posting and those words would still be embarassing.

    • Alyse says:

      Oh man, that would make me really uncomfortable if someone was talking about my boyfriend like that. I have no sympathy for Lena but, wow, Lorde def had the feels for Jack!

    • Paula says:

      Yeah, that caption she wrote for him on his birthday… I don’t consider myself a jealous person, but if a working parter wrote that to my boyfriend, I would be really angry.

    • OG OhDear says:

      She posted a photo of him on her Instagram where it was just his chest (he was wearing a shirt with a bow tie), which is an interesting photo to post of someone who you’re only in a working relationship with.

    • GreenTurtle says:

      I know! You also really get a feel for how young she is by the way she writes. I only say that because people are always on about how “mature” she looks and that she must be lying about her age.

    • Div says:

      On one hand, she seems half in love with him. On the other hand, I follow Lorde’s insta and she seems kind of like she’s half in love with a lot of people? She is really attached to NZ and seems to spends a lot of time home when she’s not touring so I wonder how that relationship would even work since he’s based in NYC and kind of needs to be for his producing work.

    • Babs says:

      I’m dead at those captions. She’s doing the most!

    • HH says:

      That’s only half the story. In the second Insta post she said that she would sometimes walk barefoot through Brooklyn. That makes me cringe. CRINGE. I honestly can’t look at her the same.

      • Lou says:

        HH: New Zealanders always walk around barefoot. It always confuses Americans because they think it’s really gross. I personally wouldn’t want to walk around Brooklyn barefoot, but I’ve walked lots of places barefoot, especially because I live right by a beach.

        Don’t worry, we wash our feet on the regular! It’s just a cultural difference.

      • Bridget says:

        New York city streets are notoriously DISGUSTING. Not somewhere you want to walk barefoot. That’s what HH is referring to. Hope Lorde is up to date on her tetanus.

    • Chaine says:

      Yeah I would be pretty worried about the status of my relationship if some other lady was on insta talking about my partner cooking her a breakfast food… and that was last March, so Lena must have been in some serious denial.

    • I Choose Me says:

      Holy wow you’re right. Just read that and good gorram, all that gushing about somebody who’s not your man? Yeah, either she’s super into him or she’s the kinda girl who’s just over the top in her emotions in general.

    • Lilly says:

      Yep. I was about to write similar about the captions. Welp, good luck. We’re all embarrassing in love it seems. Luckily I’m not famous.

    • lucy2 says:

      Yeah…I just read some of those, they definitely come off as more than a friend/colleague vibe.

  3. grabbyhands says:

    That would be hilarious.

    Especially because I think we’d be treated to a series of increasingly shrill tweets about how they’re only broken up according to Western ideas and their love is eternal and how great is it that he’s happy and isn’t that great I’m so happy he’s so happy, happy, happy,happy and meanwhile she’s making voodoo dolls that look like Lorde.

    I wonder who got Taylor Swift in the breakup?

    • Norman Bates' Mother says:

      I can bet that he did. He is a producer of Swift’s new album = money and being friends with Dunham is bad for one’s “reputation”. 2:0 for Antonoff.

  4. Nicole says:

    There were tons of blinds about lorde and jack hooking up. Didn’t think much of it because we all know to take them with a grain of salt but this one might have some truth to it

  5. OG OhDear says:

    Man, this is messy all around. I think there was at least an emotional affair. And I actually feel sympathy towards Lena even though it’s Lena.

    The original version of the US Weekly article said that Jack was currently seeing a musician, hmm.

    (*grabs popcorn*)

  6. Millennial says:

    “by the end she knew he was probably dating someone else, But he didn’t cheat”

    I interpret that to mean they had some sort of open relationship arrangement.

    • cr says:

      Or, as mentioned in a comment above, not physically cheating, but emotionally.

    • Shutterbug99 says:

      If they did have an open relationship, then I have the feeling the open part of the relationship only applied to him. It totally sounds like he cheated. Lena was so in love with this guy; referred to him as her ‘life partner’ and dropped many, many hints about marriage.

      She annoys me, but I feel sorry for her on this one. Girl not only got dumped by the guy she wanted to spend the rest of her life with, but was also quickly replaced. That has to hurt.

      As for how Lorde talks about Antonoff – don’t follow Lorde on Instagram so wasn’t aware of this before now – I would not be happy if that was my guy!

      • Erinn says:

        I’m with you on all counts. I don’t like Lena, but I do have a little sympathy for her here. I’d like to think he was like a mentor/brother figure to Lorde, but I suspect someone (if not both) were deep into this.

        I mean – it’s possible there was no physical cheating. But I’d suspect there was a strong emotional affair happening, and that’s kind of sad. Honestly, I wouldn’t be okay at all with someone my husband works with posting something even half as over the top as what Lorde posted.

  7. Crowdhood says:

    I don’t wish that on anybody, even Lena. Those captions are 😳

    • Justjj says:

      Me too! Those captions are so terrible. Yikes. And Lena was clearly super into him. I also think Lena is super messy and can be terrible and annoying, but she grew up in a privilege bubble, her career started in a privilege bubble, and she will always live and exist in one. How long must we hate her for being a rich white girl in nyc? What were the odds she would have turned out to be a woke ally from the beginning and would ever fully grasp the extent of her privilege? I would argue they were slim. I just feel like the hate for her goes to extremes sometimes. But dang those captions! Wtf!

  8. Ada says:

    I dunno. She has clearly gone through some shit this year. A breakup with her closest friend, end of her show, her partner of five years leaving her (potentially for someone else both younger and more successful and potentially after cheating), and add to that plenty of health problems, surgeries and professional missteps. The rape justification was horrendous and received a more than adequate response, but that is not really the point of this particular story. Her response to this has been fine if a bit Hipster Goop and what else is she supposed to say? I hate him? I’m scared of being alone? At least she is stepping back from the oversharing. Also, Jack Antonoff is not the hero here for leaving her: he probably sucks too.

    • Liberty says:

      This is “dumping your dog” karma. 😉

      • magnoliarose says:

        Along with using your reach and access to demean a rape victim karma. Oh and calling out a black man for not checking you out karma. Then there is the showing up for a photo op without doing any work karma.
        She seems like she would be a nightmare at the end of a relationship.

      • Ada says:

        Yuuup. All these things. She is like the personification of unchecked privilege coupled with awfulness Tourette’s. But this story, combined with the other things I listed made me really feel for her (especially having had a similarly terrible 2017 myself). Maybe that’s misplaced sympathy, considering the suffering she’s inflicted on Aurora Perrineau. Hopefully she will learn and grow from here. And hopefully we will get a wider variety of millennial voices with that kind of platform available to them. Glad that others are calling out Jack too – if he is seeing Lorde that is way creepy, age difference, producer-and-prodigy paring and all.

    • lana86 says:

      what closest friend?

      • Ada says:

        Not really sure of their name of the friend, but she wrote a Lenny letter about it at the beginning of 2017 (can’t find it now though..)

    • BorderMollie says:

      I really, really don’t like Lena, but I do feel sorry for her in this one specific instance as she was clearly way more in love with him than he was with her. Reminds me of Miley Cyrus and her indifferent boyfriend a bit. Watch out Lorde!

  9. Farah says:

    The way lorde speaks about Jack is really suspect. She gushes and glows.

  10. Other Renee says:

    Wasn’t Lorde staying with them while recording this album? If so, double ouch.

    • zuzusgirl says:

      Yes. Lorde lived with them and gushed about how they had become her family almost like her parents. Yuck on she and Jack. (Mostly him because he’s the grown up who was in a relationship and damn well knows better.)

  11. Old Wine Box says:

    I can’t get over how much he looks like a young Woody Allen.

  12. Danielle says:

    No lorde! You can do better than him!

    • perplexed says:

      That’s what I was thinking. There are good-looking musicians with better personalities who have expressed appreciation for her. So how she wound up with this one is a bit of a puzzle to me.

      • Salanta3 says:

        I’ve read speculation that he helped her through her break-up since that’s what her album was about, they must have talked about it so much, which created a bond / intimacy between them.

        And then, hasn’t Lena spent some time hospitalized over the past year? So… opportunity. Simple as that!

        It’s pretty sick if she was away sick and there he was, in HER apartment, playing house with his younger model…

  13. DIRTNAP says:

    [straightening tin foil beanie]

    Four days ago, Jack posted on his Twitter that he was listening to “Have You Forgotten” by the Red House Painters. The lyrics begin,””I can’t let you be, ‘cause your beauty won’t allow me/Wrapped in white sheets/Like an angel from a bedtime story…” Well, guess who is gorgeously wrapped up in white bed sheets on the cover art for Melodrama, her new album that they worked extensively on together? Lorde.

    Even without that little crumb trail I’m following, it’s pretty obvious from the way they interact in performances and her gushing praise of him on Insta that there is something between them. I’m in no way a Lena fan, but if the gossip is true, it’s a pretty terrible thing to do to her. I figured Lena’s marriage proposal confusion post was going to be a final straw between them, but I should have seen the signs with Lorde instead.

    • magnoliarose says:

      I am no fan either, but this is ugly. No matter her problems and issues you don’t cheat and humiliate someone. He was with her for five years and if he wanted Lorde and she wanted him then break up and do it right. Not all these hints and cute posts like they are two lovers kept apart by life and hardship.
      It isn’t romantic, and Lorde should know if it did it to Lena he would do it to her too. The other woman always thinks she is special and immune overlooking the fact that the man in the equation is a creep.

      • DIRTNAP says:

        I agree, @MagnoliaRose, it’s not right and it’s not romantic. Five years with a person, especially at that age, is considerable, and he shouldn’t have wasted her time if she made it clear she wanted marriage and he wasn’t certain. Again, not a fan of Lena. But if he cheated on her, with Lorde, after Lena welcomed her into their home and acted as Lorde’s friend, then it truly is a terrible thing they did to her. If Jack is tweeting clandestine messages to Lorde through song lyrics, then I think even less of them both than I already do.

  14. monsy says:

    She lived with them?! Ugh i kind of feel sorry for Lena.

  15. Div says:

    Oh hell. I just realized that he probably met her when she was only 16/17 when Pure Heroine came out. She became tight with Taylor very early on and he worked with Taylor on 1989 (which was released in 2014) and they seemed fairly close. Creepy.

    • Liberty says:

      Lol read Ashley Feinberg on the subject of Lorde’s age on the the Concourse portion of Deadspin. (At the very least, it’s an amusing “hmmmm.”)

      • trh says:

        (i love Ashley Feinberg’s selfie in that article lol)

        Lorde is 20??? Not in Earth years. Nobody underage involved in that household love triangle…

      • CMiddy says:

        Lorde is the age she says she is. My husband’s best friend taught her for school certificate (or whatever the current equivalent is) in NZ (usual age that is taken is 15 I think) at consistent time so unless she was an incredibly convincing mature student (why?) I don’t buy it. Why would she lie about her age?

    • DiligentDiva says:

      I really hope he isn’t dating her. Nasty AF.

    • Otaku Fairy says:

      Back when she was 16 and 17 she was dating some other guy- a 22-year-old whose name escapes me. So there may not have been anything going on between her and Lena’s boyfriend then. Now she’s 21.

  16. DIRTNAP says:

    Apparently, he recently stepped out with a “female friend” at the Chateau Marmont Hotel. Not sure if she’s really a friend, a red herring, or the new love, but her outfit was a true complement to his fashion aesthetic.

  17. Ira says:

    I don’t like Lena Dunham at all, but no one deserve this. Ugh, this makes me remember what happened with Mia Farrow, Andre Previn and Dory Previn.
    Is there any decent people in this industry?

    • Jeannie says:

      Maybe not. I always thought Jack Antonoff was weird, ive seen bleachers live (my best friend loves them), but i don’t particualrly like them. His album “strange desire” was all abt Lena, especially the songs “rollercoaster” and “you’re still a mystery.”

      His OTHER band, on the other hand is really good, but i think that’s because of the talented frontman, nate ruess, who has a really pretty voice and a sensitive writing style. One of the things that is making me so mad abt this (ok, clearly im too invested) but i hate when anyone makes their living or paints their image as really, really sensitive and then does deeply insensitive things (…jack AND lorde, they opened up their home to her). I suppose lena fits into that category, too, but I really feel for her here.

      • HelloSunshine says:

        Hello fellow Fun./Nate Ruess/The Format? fan!
        I agree and kinda hate that this is making me feel sympathy for Lena because she’s a problematic and straight up awful mess but they opened their home up to Lorde and it sounds like that’s probably when Jack and Lorde started being flirty and stuff. While living in Lena and Jack’s home. I can only imagine it makes you feel like total crap to see the end of your relationship show up in the form of someone younger and critically acclaimed talent wise

      • Jeannie says:

        @hellosunshine they’re so good!! My friends n i have loved nate forever (especially the format). We were so excited to see him finally get some recognition w fun.. (its awkward that i double-perioded that, but you know why i had to.)

        The song “on your porch” is so beautiful n really speaks to me. My dad had a stroke n i watched my mom take care of him. He’s truly a phenomenal songwriter.

        Also, yes don’t like lena, but i really feel for her here.

  18. Lucy says:

    I mean…Ella/Lorde speaks that way about half of the people she knows, male and female.

  19. DiligentDiva says:

    I hate her with a burning passion but I don’t understand this logic at all
    “By the end Lena knew he was probably dating someone else,” the first source explains. “But he didn’t cheat.”
    If a guy is still “with” you but dating someone else that’s cheating.
    Also I’m 99% sure it’s Lorde, those pics say it all, that being said I’m not sure how much I approve of a 33-year-old man leaving his girlfriend for a 21 year old. It’s just weird to me, I hate it when men do that.
    Lena’s trash and always will be trash but men dumping women for “younger versions” is also a trash thing to do.

    • KBB says:

      Oddly, it would make sense to me if he did that. People always wondered what he saw in Lena Dunham, maybe it was her immaturity. She’s got the mentality of a 21 year old girl, maybe he’s into that. Lorde looks older, but her insta captions scream 20 year old girl to me.

    • Aren says:

      It’s terribly inappropriate, especially because she lived with them and saw them as ‘adult’ figures.
      If a 20 year old sort of looks up to you, you don’t take advantage of that.
      He’s disgusting.

      • DiligentDiva says:

        Wait she lived with them???? Ewwwwwww. God maybe now we know why Jack was with Lena, he’s just a big of a trash can as she is.

      • Hikaru says:

        ^ She stayed with them and Lena used to prepare her food and they were friends.

  20. CynicalAnn says:

    I’m too old to know who he is-but from pics he looks like a dope. I don’t like Lena, but it’s never nice when your boyfriend dumps you for someone you know (and is younger.)

  21. missamanda says:

    this is such a ‘duh’ revelation…I’ve seen the evidence of love between them in Lorde’s posts of and about Antonoff for years. I think they’re cute together.

  22. Shambles says:

    Lyrics from Lorde’s Green Light (JA just so happens to appear in the music video):

    “I do my makeup in somebody else’s car
    We order different drinks at the same bars
    I know about what you did and I wanna scream the truth
    She thinks you love the beach, you’re such a damn liar
    Those great whites, they have big teeth
    Oh, they bite you
    Thought you said that you would always be in love
    But you’re not in love no more
    Did it frighten you
    How we kissed when we danced on the light up floor?
    On the light up floor
    But I hear sounds in my mind
    Brand new sounds in my mind
    But honey I’ll be seein’ you, ever, I go
    But honey I’ll be seein’ you down every road
    I’m waiting for it, that green light, I want it”

    I mean…. it’s so damn obvious this song is about Jack, Lena, and Lorde. I’m dead serious.

    “I know about what you did and I want to scream the truth” ~ I know you cheated on Lena with me and I want to tell her so we can be together

    “She thinks you love the beach, you’re such a damn liar” ~ Lena thinks she knows you, but only I know you

    “But you’re not in love no more” ~ Speaks for itself

    “I’m waiting for it, that green light, I want it” ~ I’m waiting for you to break up with Lena so we can be tother

    Jack is in the damn video, FFS. What they did here is so obvious and it actually makes me (gag) feel bad for Lena. I hate Lena so so so much, but this is reeeaaaally bad. It’s like they were trying to tell her that Lena and Jack’s relationship was over and it was right in front of her face, and it’s actually gross as hell. Lorde is still a child and it’s obvious, because this is really petty and immature. Jack is a grown man and he knows better, so doubly gross on his part. But writing this post was thoroughly entraining for me, so *shrugs*

    • Ankhel says:

      Eh. A 21 year old is not a child, not relationship wise either. Even highschoolers knows you don’t go after other girls’ boyfriends, not if you don’t want tears and drama.

      • Shambles says:

        Oh I know a 21 year old is not a child. But, emotionally, she is obviously still a child.

      • Aren says:

        Exactly was I was going to say. Even teenagers know you don’t try to get together with somebody who’s taken, especially if they’re both your friends.

    • Jayna says:

      The song is about Lorde’s ex-boyrfriend, the one she broke up with after several years, or actually he broke up with her. . The whole album was about him and moving on through a haze of drinking and partying, being alone, sleeping with men, and trying to find yourself after a breakup. Most of that partying was done in New Zealand with her friends and and in NYC when working on the album.

      I don’t believe she lived with Lena and Jack. I don’t know where people are getting that. In an interview she talked about iiving in different hotels during that year being in NYC while writing and making the album and being on her own a lot to write the music. She talked about an old diner she would take the subway to where nobody knew her, a diner that catered to older people, wasn’t hip.

      She recorded with Jack at his home studio and other studios.. She didn’t live in their home.

      Lena on what the album was about:

      Things got more complicated in 2015, when she and her longtime boyfriend, an Auckland-based photographer named James Lowe, broke up. Amid this unhappy circumstance, another path presented itself for her songwriting. “After your heart is broken, music enters you on a new level,” Lorde said. “You suddenly find yourself crying when ‘Try Sleeping With a Broken Heart’ ” — an aching Alicia Keys track — “comes on.” (Lorde declined to specify the reasons for the split.)’

      She decided that the new album would grapple with emotions and insights stemming from the breakup. For the first time in her adult life, she was single. What was it like to be on a dance floor, to desire someone else on it and to act on this desire? How did it feel to wake up the next morning? She emphasized that “Melodrama” wasn’t a “breakup album.” Instead, she said, “it’s a record about being alone. The good parts and the bad parts.”

      • Shambles says:

        Eh. I’m sticking with my conspiracy. *shrugs*

        Of course she’s not going to come out and say this song was about her getting with Lena Dunham’s boyfriend, but that doesnt mean that’s not what the song is actually about.

      • lana86 says:

        @Jayna no way someone can believe that James Lowe dumped Lorde, common! She’s just talking about “heartbreak”, as in, it’s hard to break up with someone u’ve been with for so long. Like, you feel sad, and guilty, and stuff.

        Hard to imagine any scenario in which that awkward unpopular boy suddenly was not into his superstar beautiful girlfriend.

      • Jayna says:

        @shambles, from an interview, “She added that the song is about “my first major heartbreak,” adding: “It’s not something that I really am used to writing about… It took me a while to be able to figure out how to write about that.”

        No one is saying down the road of making a compete album together maybe at some point feelings didn’t develop, but that song Green Light was written specifically about her ex and the green light to move on. She’s singing to the guy how he’s a fake now about telling someone else he likes the beach when he doesn’t. It reminded me of my friend who broke up with a boyfriend, one who would never go to the mall with her, said he hates it and does, and then she runs into him with his new girlfriend at the mall. She wanted to slap him.

        Have all the conspiracy theories you want. I just see it a different way. I have followed every interview on Lorde’s writing this album and it was about her ex and the year after, getting over him. I thought it was a brilliant song, a young girl, still in her teens, hitting 20 moving on from her first love, a feeling of sadness but also freedom because you’re young and the world is yours, but still with the melancholy of having to let go..

        Review of Green Light.

        “Green Light” is ostensibly a breakup song, but it’s less about the screaming match than the nebulous emotions that follow. There are open wounds — “I know what you did, and I wanna scream the truth,” Lorde seethes. But there’s also an acceptance of longing, as the chorus is constructed around Lorde admitting that she’ll “come get my things, but I can’t let go.”

        In the middle of those two feelings exists an awkward stride into an uneasy new reality, with the narrator waking up in unfamiliar places and missing the intimacy that has evaporated. “I hear sounds in my mind/ Brand-new sounds in my mind,” goes the pre-chorus, as the piano gets paired with a throbbing beat. Here, Lorde sounds neither excited nor crestfallen but cautious, her voice descending as she tiptoes into the future that she did not count on. On her most club-ready hook to date, the freshly minted 20-year-old has never sounded more vulnerable.

      • Jayna says:

        @lana86, I don’t think he could handle her fame as it grew and grew and all the adulation she received. It’s alluded to in another song.

        Maybe it was a mutual breakup, but singing about “after your heart is broken” means to me she was still in love with him.

        “After your heart is broken, music enters you on a new level,” Lorde said during a recent interview. “You suddenly find yourself crying when ‘Try Sleeping With a Broken Heart’ comes on.”

        “It was my first major heartbreak,” she continued, adding that the lyrics to “Green Light” are “really about those moments kind of immediately after your life changes and about all the silly little things that you gravitate towards.”

        About Green Light:

        “The ‘Royals’ hit-maker says the contrast between the ‘intense’ words and the ‘happy’ dance sound is because she imagined herself being the ‘drunk’ girl at a party drowning her sorrows.”

        ‘I realised this is that drunk girl at the party dancing around crying about her ex-boyfriend who everyone thinks is a mess. That’s her tonight and tomorrow she starts to rebuild. And that’s the song for me,’

      • Bridget says:

        That most definitely does NOT say that she lives with them. “i’d go there every day” is the exact quote.

      • Jeannie says:

        @bridget, alright, that’s a bit of semantics. She would go there everyday n raid their fridge n spend a lot of time w them. She obviously felt comfortable there. There’s an instance where she referred to them as her parents.

      • Jeannie says:

        That being said, ive spent way too much time thinking abt this. I don’t particularly like any of these people. Mazel tov to the new couple, n hopefully lena grows up a lil.

      • Jeannie says:

        @bridget, you’re right, i reread it n for some reason i really thought she stayed w them. Huh.

      • Bridget says:

        I’ve done that before too.

  23. perplexed says:

    I wonder what Lorde sees in him. I figure he’s got to be a little odd if he was in love with Lena Dunham, He’s not even cute. (Although they’re both musicians, I guess?).

    Oh wait, I remember an article that said she was staying in Lena’s and her boyfriend’s apartment at some point. Yikes. That’s got to hurt.

  24. Bridget says:

    He is so unattractive.

    I’m assuming the “by the end… but didn’t cheat” comment meant that they were broken up but still in the process of moving out.

  25. Mbheel says:

    Wow, commenters at celebitchy can change their minds fast! I guess Jack’s behavior and Lorde’s 21yr old flirting have now made you guys ‘feel sorry for Lena’ good to know only takes this to restore sympathy for her!

    Remember Aurora? Oh but wait, boohoo oh Lena girl, emotional affair, cheaters suck, lorde’s a homewrecker, girl you deserve better! I feel so sorry men are pigs!

    Smh. Some things never change . didn’t take long for the comments here to be littered with ‘I don’t like Lena, but’ – I’ll come back and visit when it doesn’t take so fast for white feminists to go from heinous Lena to ohhhhhgirlIKnowsosry relationship sympathy. I’m disgusted. Good to know WoC get shelved bc ‘even Lena doesn’t deserve this’ (vomit)

    • Babs says:

      Totally agree with this. Aurora, Zinzi and her friend, what she said about Odell Beckam Jr, the little sister she raped, just to say a few… and that’s what it takes to feel sorry for the sad pos that is Dunham? An “emotional affair” that is not even confirmed yet? Wow. I don’t feel sorry for her and I think she deserves all the shit in the world actually.

    • OG OhDear says:

      Why not both? People can emphasize with Lena in this situation while still thinking she’s a terrible person.

    • littlemissnaughty says:

      Are you one of those people who can only have one thought/opinion on something or someone? I can – shock and horror – dislike someone while still occasionally feeling sympathy for them. Doesn’t change my opinion on them. Being cheated on or losing your significant other in a messy way is never fun and I don’t wish it on (most) people. If only because it’s bad for my karma.

    • Otaku Fairy says:

      People can hold more than one thought at a time, but her boyfriend possibly replacing her with Lorde isn’t enough to make me feel bad for her either.

      • Nicole Savannah, GA says:

        I’d hope so. I empathize, you don’t. No biggie.
        To be clear, only in this situation!

  26. Shutterbug99 says:

    I gotta say I am really surprised Lena is taking the high road here. Especially if Lorde moved in on her man while staying at their house! Lena hasn’t even unfollowed Jack or Lorde on Insta – YET.

    • KBB says:

      Give it time…she’s Lena Dunham, she can’t help herself.

    • Jayna says:

      She did not stay at their house. She stayed at hotels, as per her own interview, regarding when she was making that album. Jack had a home studio. She worked in his home studio and other studios also.

      • Shutterbug99 says:

        OK – I read the other comments about her staying at their house and ran with it. Still, if all of this is true, I am really surprised that Lena is staying silent on the matter. It’s certainly not her usual way!

  27. Clairej says:

    Lords gushes about everyone and they seem like good friends. Not ready to condemn her as a homewrecker just yet. Lena doesn’t seem too stressed either.

  28. perplexed says:

    I just think she’s (Lorde) really pretty, and, er, he’s not.

    When he was with Lena, I probably didn’t even notice he wasn’t that good-looking. But next to Lorde, this reality is jumping out at me. Or maybe she suddenly looks far prettier now than I previously thought standing next to him. I’m not sure which it is.

    • Chrissy says:

      You probably didn’t notice how Jack looked because he was standing next to the (let’s face it), rather plain Lena Dunham. Now that he’s seen standing next to the stunning Lorde, you can see that Jack looks like the male version of Lena- both plain and non-descript. But, of course, far more talented and hopefully less pretentious and less of an a**hole.

  29. TheOtherOne says:

    Let me be the first to take the low road, but I find this story hilarious for some reason. It could be Kaiser’s ‘interpretation’ of how the breakup happened, but this story is making me crack up. Now, my black heart and I will take a timeout. As you were.

  30. Amaria says:

    Lorde’s own words (can be found in an older CB article): “I love that family. That apartment. I’d go there every day, root around in the fridge… There was definitely an element of popping down the hall and Lena being, like, ‘What are you working on today?’ I felt like their child.”
    Ewwww.

  31. Jayna says:

    @Jeannie, read under the headline where it says she stays with them. The headline is misleading. Her actual quote under it was she would go there every day, NOT that she lived there or stayed there. She would go there every day.. “I love that family. That apartment. I’d go there every day, root around in the fridge… There was definitely an element of popping down the hall and Lena being, like, ‘What are you working on today?’ I felt like their child.”

    She went over there because Jack had a home studio in their apartment and he and Lorde worked at. his home studio every day.

    In several interviews she talked about living in hotels while making the album.

    From NY Times:

    Lorde owns a house in Auckland, where she grew up, but for the better part of the last year she has been living at different hotels around New York, trying to finish her second album,

    Lorde, the New Zealand-born pop star, came into the fire-lit lounge of her downtown Manhattan hotel a few minutes past 11, apologizing for the lateness of the hour.

    “They spent months working in the cozy recording space Antonoff built at the Brooklyn apartment he shares with his girlfriend, Lena Dunham. Occasionally they decamped to high-end studios in Hollywood and Manhattan to get a feel for the music when it was cranked up to 11.”

    They could have fallen in love while working together. But she wasn’t living with them, is all I am saying. She’s rich. One of the hotels she was staying at had this little backway out where the author of that article said you might run into someone like Meryl Streep.

  32. RitaB says:

    I still don’t get why people aren’t bother by the fact that Lorde was 15 when her relationship with James Lowe has started. JL who is 8 years older than her. Maybe it’s just me but I find it gross and weird. Man in his twenties and a teenager… no matter how “mature” she would be – it doesn’t seem right and, well, healthy. I see that she can be attracted to Antonoff, 13 years older…

  33. Ritab says:

    *Bothered