Tina Purvis
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Podcast Appearances
It was like she just felt like, Jack, she was going through this massive thing in her own life.
And then her partner of five years wasn't able to be here for her.
But then she saw him consoling and giving all this emotional support to someone else.
And that's what hit the hardest.
So then Lena Dunham writes that she was kind of in her lowest point and she kind of was feeling that she and Jack, like their long-term relationship might be over.
And so she said she reached out to a man called Dick, who she described as her former middle school boyfriend that she had kept in touch with over the years.
What a throwback.
A middle school boyfriend's going deep.
But I also do feel like a lot of women, not every woman, a lot of women have that one guy in their phone who they're like, he's on the bench and you don't want to call him up.
He's on the bench for a reason.
But if you need to call him up in an emergency draft.
You need to sub in.
You need to sub someone in.
Like other people are out for some reason and the roster's down and you can bring him in.
And that's Nick.
She's like, we were in a cab and we hugged and I said, I've been through something awful.
I don't want to talk about it, but I need you to fuck me and I need you to do all of the work.
And fair enough for laying out exactly what you need.
Again, her body is
recovering from this massive surgery and her heart is recovering from watching this man that she thought she was going to marry and have children with like support a pop star over her and then she writes that she recalls the two of them having sex and it felt a euphoria that in recent months only intravenous medication had provided