Róisín Ingle
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
There's lots of different things in it.
There's lots of stuff about toxic friendship as well, because she gets involved in this friendship kind of relationship where the person is a mentor as well, and she's a bit older than her, and it doesn't end well, that friendship.
But...
There's one part.
Lena Dunham used to have a big relationship with a guy called Jack Antonoff, who's a music producer who produced Taylor Swift and all those.
And she was really heartbroken when she ended.
So one night she finds herself out to dinner with Bruce Springsteen.
As you do.
And this is a little anecdote about that encounter because Bruce Springsteen has recently become very good friends with her ex, Jack Antonoff.
So she says, and after an awkward perusal of menus, Bruce looked up at me with eyes so clear I knew he saw my secret garden and said, since we last saw each other, Jack has become very special to me.
Reader, sometimes you see two doors in life, one marked normal behavior and one marked psycho stuff.
And after a brief pause to really consider what's best, you choose psycho stuff.
And that is what I did.
That is what I have so often done.
From my mouth came a font of verbal diarrhea that sounded something like this.
I'm glad he's special to you because he promised to love me forever and that's not how he turned out.
And I may not have been perfect, but I would have tried and tried.
And now he shames me just for existing.
And I'm going to write a memoir one day and I don't know how not to just call it.
I hate you, Jack.