Lena Dunhamis opening up about her “terrible mistake.”
Dunham also apologized directly to Perrineau, 24.
“To Aurora: You have been on my mind and in my heart every day this year,” she said. “I love you. I will always love you. I will always work to right that wrong. In that way, you have made me a better woman and a better feminist.”
“You shouldn’t have been given that job in addition to your other burdens, but here we are, and here I am asking: How do we move forward? Not just you and I but all of us, living in the gray space between admission and vindication,” she continued.
“There are some who will think I am writing this to curry public favor (that’s OK, though, I stopped thinking that was an option for me somewhere around 2014, and that’s some kind of freedom),” she added. “I have the only women I want or need in my life. And this is the Women in Entertainment issue, and women in entertainment need healing. Sometimes healing starts with the words: I’m sorry.”
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Perrineau, daughter ofLoststar Harold Perrineau, alleged Miller sexually assaulted her in 2012 when she was only 17. She filed a complaint last year about the alleged attack with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Office, claiming that she met Miller at L.A.’s Standard Hotel with friends in 2012 and “consumed some alcoholic beverages.” She alleged Miller, then 35, asked them for a ride home, where they all went inside, reluctantly on her part, after arriving.
In her statement for a polygraph test taken in September 2017, she claimed she awoke naked in his bed where he was “having sexual intercourse” with her, against her consent.
Miller’s attorney, Matthew Walerstein, toldThe Wrapat the time he “categorically and vehemently denies Ms. Perrineau’s outrageous claims,” adding that his legal team had “gathered overwhelming evidence directly contradicting these false and offensive claims.”
Dunham and alongsideGirlsco-creator Jenni Konner then released a statement in which they voiced their support for Miller and insinuated that Perrineau “misreported” the rape. The statement wasmet with serious backlash, and Dunham later issuedan apologyon Twitter.
When she was asked to comment on the allegations, Dunham — who has been public about her experiences with sexual assault — said she recalling thinking: “Well, people know that I’m an advocate for these issues, so if I say this, they’ll know I’m not coming from X or Y place.… I think I was just like,F— everyone else. This is my tribe. Let’s keep itsafe.”
source: people.com
