Lena Dunham says she spent her twenties 'jeopardizing my health': 'I wasn’t just taking medication for physical pain'
Lena Dunham has spent her formative years in the spotlight, after creating, co-directing and starring in the award-winning HBO series Girls at just 25. Now, she’s opening up about the sacrifices that she made to her health while balancing that success and an overactive social life.
And although the fast-paced lifestyle was something she could keep up with at first, it started to take a toll on Dunham, who eventually turned to pills as a way to cope. The New York native explained that her abuse of pills started after she had gotten a hysterectomy to relieve symptoms of endometriosis. She also had prescription medication to deal with physical pain from fibromyalgia. Soon enough, what she had been taking for both turned into a source of relief from other types of pain.
It was at that point, when she had been struggling physically, mentally and dealing with a public breakup on top of it all that Dunham hit her lowest point. She even opened up about wanting to take her own life.
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