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Adam Driver broke his silence on Lena Dunham's memoir when he was asked about it at the 2026 Cannes Film Festival

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• The actor said he had "no comment"

• The pair starred together in HBO's Girls from 2012 to 2017, and Dunham wrote about their relationship in her memoir Famesick

Adam Driverhas broken his silence onLena Dunham's memoir.

The actress, 40, wrote about her complicated relationship with her formerGirlscostar in her memoirFamesick, including claims that Driver, 42, once “hurled a chair at the wall” next to her and was at times “verbally aggressive.”

When asked about the memoir at a press conference for his latest film,Paper Tiger, during the 2026 Cannes Film Festival on Sunday, May 17, the actor said he has “no comment on any of that.”

“I'm saving it all for my book,” he added, inciting laughter from the audience, video shared byDeadlineshows.

In her memoir, Dunham opened up about facing chronic illness, makingGirls, dating and coming of age. When it came to her relationship with Driver, she wrote, "The more I knew him, the less I understood.”

While Dunham said the two have not spoken since the end of their HBO show in 2017, she remembered being “heartbroken” when she learned that Driver was engaged.

She also wrote about watching Driver navigate his way through a “very specific ride" — becoming a major movie star while also focusing onGirls.

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Speaking with PEOPLE about her memoir andher relationship with Driver, Dunham said, "He was on these two tracks, and he's a very, very serious work-focused private person. So I have a lot of empathy for that."

"And again, 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," she continued.

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In reflecting on her “really rich creative dynamic" with Driver, Dunham recalled that they were able to “understand each other completely” when they were onscreen. (Driver starred inGirlsas Dunham's character's on-again, off-again boyfriend.)

But when it came to their real lives, things were different, Dunham said. "It was almost like we had two different relationships, one that kind of played out in our scenes together and one that played out in life,” she explained.

According to Dunham, her memoir was “an attempt to capture that [relationship] in an honest way, and also really talk about how much being around this very talented, charismatic, complex and powerful person affected me in ways that were really positive and in ways that were a bit harder.”

Famesickis available to purchase now, wherever books are sold.

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Call her mommy.

"Call Her Daddy" hostAlex Cooperis expecting her first child with husband Matt Kaplan.

Cooper, 31,shared the news on Instagramon Sunday, May 17, posting a pair of photos where she cradles her baby bump. "Our family 🤍," she wrote in the caption. In her Instagram Stories, Cooper said she was "honestly happy I can finally stop trying to hide the bump lol."

The podcaster has been married to Kaplan, a producer, since 2024.

Cooper has discussed wanting to have children on "Call Her Daddy," though in a vulnerable, solo episode last year, she opened up about pushing back her timeline.

In a June 2025 podcast titled "I'm Not Ready for a Baby," Cooper said she and Kaplan decided the prior summer that they would start trying for a baby and even began talking about names, planning home renovations to prepare for kids, and more. "We were just so excited and ready," she said.

But Cooper said that after she stopped taking birth control, she started to experience "extreme vertigo and dizziness," so they decided to "put a pause on getting pregnant." She then realized she didn't want to "slow down" during a busy time in her career by having a baby.

Alex Cooper calls out Alix Earle:The podcaster addresses their 'beef' in viral TikTok

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"I eventually realized I wasn't ready," she said at the time. "And even when I got to feeling healthier again, as nice as that was, it didn't make me want to rush and have a baby. Instead, it made me more anxious, because I should have felt ready, and I felt so frustrated with myself, and I felt guilty."

But Cooper said she realized she needed "time to live a little more before I enter the next, beautiful chapter of my life" by having kids, and she wanted to make sure she's "present" and "capable" when she becomes a mom. Kaplan was supportive of this, she noted, telling her that "when it is the right time, it will be the right time."

"I know he's going to be the most incredible father to our babies," Cooper added, growing emotional.

In a January interview with Jennette McCurdy, Cooper noted she "really didn't think" she wanted kids when she was in her 20s, but "something changed, and I think that's OK. I was like, 'You know what? I actually think I do.' "

Cooper launched "Call Her Daddy," which became known for its unapologetically blunt and honest conversations about sex, with her roommate and cohost Sofia Franklyn in 2018, quickly amassing a dedicated fanbase that Cooper refers to as the "Daddy Gang." The show was previously part of Barstool Sports before moving to Spotify in 2021. Franklyn left the show in 2020.

"Call Her Daddy" is now one of the biggest podcasts in the world, and it ranked as Spotify'sfourth most-popular podcastof the year in 2025. It has also turned into a hot stop for A-list guests like Kim Kardashian, Hilary Duff and evenformer Vice President Kamala Harris, who sat down with Cooper during her 2024 presidential campaign.

Cooper is also the founder of the media company Unwell, which includes a podcast network and agency.

This article originally appeared on USA TODAY:Alex Cooper is pregnant, expecting first baby with Matt Kaplan

Shonda Rhimes told PEOPLE that she's gone down a "dorm organization" rabbit hole as her daughter prepares for college

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• The Grey's Anatomy creator is mom to daughters Harper, 23, Emerson, 12, and Beckett, 11

• Rhimes also shared how she celebrated Mother's Day this year

Shonda Rhimeshas found a new creative outlet — dorm organization.

While stepping out to the 2026 Webby Awards in New York City on May 11, theGrey's Anatomycreator, 56, revealed to PEOPLE exclusively that her daughter is preparing to go to college and she's been diving deep into the world of dorm decor.

"My daughter's going off to school, so I have gone down the rabbit hole of dorm organization, which I didn't even know all that stuff existed, but apparently it does," she said, adding that she's discovered "some amazing stuff" in the process.

Rhimes is mom to daughters Harper, 23, Emerson, 12, and Beckett, 11. She welcomed Harper through adoption in 2002. Emerson joined the family through adoption 10 years later, and in 2013, Rhimes welcomed Beckett via surrogacy.

The TV mogul also told PEOPLE how she spent Mother's Day this year.

"I celebrated with my daughters and my sister and her children and my parents," she shared. "So it was, it was three generations of Rhimes women hanging out, and we had an amazing time."

Rhimes previously revealed that she made the decision to start a family after the tragic events of 9/11. In a 2006 conversation forO, The Oprah Magazine, she recalled that she was 32 at the time and had rented a farmhouse in Vermont to “think about my life." The terrorist attacks occurred the very next day.

While watching the tragedy unfold on TV, she reflected on everything she wanted to do, and then went home and hired an adoption attorney.

“Nine months and two days after 9/11, my daughter was born," she said. "I named her after Harper Lee. Now I can't remember what I did with my time before she got here."

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Last year, Rhimes opened up about theconversations she had with her familybefore becoming a mom. During an October appearance onCall Her Daddy, she shared that her parents "got on board but had a lot of questions about adoption."

"They had a lot of questions about what that was going to mean and how that was going to be," she explained. "Although in my family, it sort of never mattered how you came into the family. You're just part of the family."

"Surrogacy brought up a lot of questions from my family," Rhimes continued. "That just felt... I mean, I don't think I've to this day, I still haven't had the sperm donor conversation with my father. Do you know what I mean? Like those conversations."

She went on to say that "the minute there's a baby," her whole family is "in love and embraces [them]."

"Our family is really great in that way," she noted. "We're a very big, loud, boisterous family who, like everybody, is super embraced."

Rhimes also admitted on the podcast that she felt like she had to "justify" how she had kids.

"I felt like I had to justify it for people," she said. "And that's ridiculous. At a certain point, I was like, however I decide, you know, it's like nobody puts in the paper like so and so had a baby via C-section. Nobody says this is their C-sectioned child. So how my children came into my family is not the issue."

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