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LENA Dunham has made claims that a ‘feral’ Adam Driver screamed and ‘hurled a chair’ on the set of Girls after she missed her lines.

In the show created and starring Lena, 39, her character Hannah Horvath was in an on-off relationship with Adam’s character Adam Sackler.

In Lena’s brand new memoir Famesick, the actress alleges that her Girls co-star, 42, exhibited “violent” and “feral” behavior on the set of the popular HBO series.

She even described him as “spectacularly rude” and recounted instances of him allegedly screaming and throwing furniture.

Lena described Adam as “half-man, half-beast” as she claimed how Adam was “occasionally violent”.

In one part of the book, Lena alleged Adam threw a chair at the wall next to her when they were running lines.

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Lena claimed she was unable to get her words out but says this was due to her dissociating because of her then-undiagnosed endometriosis.

In her book, Lena recalled: “I remember doing a fight scene with Adam and how scary it was to meet someone so totally present with such absence.

“Late one night, as we practiced lines in my trailer, I found that mine were suddenly gone. I knew I’d written them. I’d known them only minutes before.

“But when I opened my mouth, all that came out was a stammer—until finally, Adam screamed, ‘F**KING SAY SOMETHING’ and hurled a chair at the wall next to me.”

She then alleged he said: “WAKE THE F**K UP,” adding how he allegedly fumed: “I’M SICK OF WATCHING YOU JUST STARE.”

The U.S. Sun reached out to Adam’s representative for comment.

Lena went on to say that she said her lines correctly after the incident.

She later noted: “Adam hated his new haircut and had punched a hole in his trailer wall.”

Lena also opened up about sex scenes in Girls and how intimacy coordinators were used far less frequently at the time of the show being in production.

But Lena wanted to cultivate a “safe” environment on set when it came to sex scenes.

She claimed in her book how the “careful blocking went out of the window” when filming intimate scenes, because Adam would allegedly “hurl me this way and that”.

Lena alleged: “Part of me was afraid that when I turned around, I would find I was suddenly in a full-penetration 1970s porno.

“But after a few mimed thrusts, I called cut,” she wrote.

According to Lena, when Adam wrapped his final scene for Girls, at the end of season six in 2016, he told her: “I hope you know I’ll always love you.”

She then revealed how she “never heard from him again” after that.

A United States federal judge has once again batted down a pair of subpoenas from the administration of President Donald Trump seeking information about Jerome Powell, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, the country’s central bank.

In a brief, six-page opinion published on Friday, Judge James Boasberg rejected the Department of Justice’s motion to reconsider his earlier ruling rejecting the subpoenas.

“The Government’s arguments do not come close to convincing the Court that a different outcome is warranted,” Boasberg wrote.

On March 13, Boasberg, a judge for the federal court in the District of Columbia, nullified the subpoenas on the basis that they were issued for an “improper purpose”: to pressure Powell into compliance with the president’s demands.

Trump and Powell — an appointee from the president’s first term — have been at loggerheads since the Republican leader returned to the White House in January 2025.

Although the Federal Reserve is an independent government agency, not subject to political demands, Trump has repeatedly called on the bank to slash interest rates, and he has denounced Powell as “incompetent”, “crooked” and a “fool” for not following suit.

For months, pressure had been building from the Trump White House to investigate Powell and push him prematurely from his job as Federal Reserve chair. Powell’s term is slated to expire in May.

Much of the Trump administration’s focus has fallen on renovations to the Federal Reserve’s historic 1930s buildings in Washington, DC, which have gone over budget.

The administration has pointed to the cost overruns as evidence of malfeasance.

Last July, for instance, Trump appointee William Pulte called on Congress to investigate Powell for “political bias” and “deceptive” testimony related to the renovation project.

The following month, Trump posted on his platform Truth Social that he was considering “a major lawsuit against Powell” in response to “horrible, and grossly incompetent” work on the renovations.

The pressure reached a climax on January 11, when Powell made a rare statement announcing he was under a Justice Department investigation over the renovation project. He dismissed the probe as a “pretext” to undermine the Federal Reserve’s leadership over monetary policy.

“The threat of criminal charges is a consequence of the Federal Reserve setting interest rates based on our best assessment of what will serve the public, rather than following the preferences of the president,” Powell said.

The Federal Reserve has since sought to have the subpoenas into Powell’s behaviour tossed.

Boasberg sided with the central bank in his initial ruling, and in Friday’s opinion, he called the Trump administration’s efforts to change his mind insufficient.

The Justice Department had argued that it does not need to produce evidence of a crime to seek a grand jury subpoena.

Boasberg agreed with that point, but he said subpoenas were also subject to a legal standard that bars them from being issued for “improper” purposes.

“The subpoena power ‘is not unlimited’ and may not be abused,” Boasberg wrote, citing court precedent.

He therefore ruled that the lack of evidence overall against Powell was relevant to the legality of the subpoenas.

“The controlling legal question is what these ‘subpoena[s’] dominant purpose’ is: pressuring Powell to lower rates or resign, or pursuing a legitimate investigation opened because the facts suggested wrongdoing,” Boasberg said.

“Resolving that question requires probing whether the Government’s asserted basis for the subpoenas — suspicions of fraud and lying to Congress — is colorable or tenuous. That inquiry, in turn, means asking how much evidence there is to back up the Government’s assertions.”

Boasberg underscored that he has seen no suggestion that Powell committed criminal wrongdoing and pointed to the long list of statements Trump has made attacking the Federal Reserve chair, suggesting an ulterior motive.

“The Government’s fundamental problem is that it has presented no evidence whatsoever of fraud,” he concluded.

Friday’s ruling is likely to set the stage for the Trump administration to appeal. US Attorney Jeanine Pirro has previously denied any political motivation for the investigation.

She has also asserted that Boasberg is “without legal authority” to nullify the subpoenas.

Middlesex declined to respond formally when approached by BBC Sport but are open to meeting with the group.

They will begin the new campaign under a new coach after former New Zealand batter Peter Fulton was appointed in February.

Richard Johnson left last June after a run of poor results and Dane Vilas had been in interim charge since.

The letter comes at a tumultuous time for the Lord’s-based club – and follows financial issues at Sussex and a reported revolt by former players at Lancashire, external.

As part of a view to securing private investment, Middlesex are looking into moving away from their current home where they have been long-standing tenants of the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) for 160 years.

Though they have made recorded profits since, they were fined for breaches of financial regulations in 2023 amid financial struggles.

Chief executive Andrew Cornish is currently on a leave of absence, external amid an investigation being carried out by the Cricket Regulator. The absence of a CEO makes decision-making at board level difficult.

In the letter, the former Middlesex players are critical of the fact only one member of the club’s board, former England bowler Steven Finn who joined in 2024, has playing experience in first-class cricket. It is understood no other players have applied in recent years.

Radley, Emburey, Selvey and Ramprakash have all had stints as Middlesex president since 2013. Gatting was on the club’s board until recently.

They have called on the club’s members to attend this month’s Annual General Meeting “in numbers” to “seek answers”.

Middlesex committed to a governance review at a recent members’ forum.

March 13 (UPI) — A federal judge this week quashed subpoenas the Department of Justice had issued to Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell because they were issued to pressure him into adjusting interest rates.

Judge James Boasberg redressed the DOJ for the subpoenas, saying that their purpose had nothing to do with a probe about renovations at the Federal Reserve in Washington, D.C.

The DOJ in January launched a criminal investigation into Powell’s testimony last year about the renovations, which Powell at the time said were “pretexts” to punish him and the Fed after they did not set interest rates at levels demanded by President Donald Trump.

“The Government has produced essentially zero evidence to suspect Chair Powell of a crime; indeed, its justifications are so thin and unsubstantiated that the Court can only conclude that they are pretextual,” Boasberg wrote in the opinion.

The department in January issued grand jury subpoenas in reference to Powell’s comments about the multi-year project to renovate the Fed’s office buildings during his June 2025 testimony before the Senate Banking Committee.

During a tour of the renovations, Powell disputed Trump’s over-estimates of the renovation’s cost, and threatened to sue him for the “horrible and grossly incompetent job” Powell had done on the project.

Overall, however, Trump has repeatedly ripped into and mused about firing Powell, which he cannot do, because the Fed chair has repeatedly said that interest rate changes would be dictated by only the market, rather than the preferences of any one person.

In the opinion, which was unsealed Friday, Boasberg said he blocked the subpoenas because “a mountain of evidence suggests that the Government served these subpoenas on the Board to pressure its Chair into voting for lower interest rates or resigning.”