Dunham thanks Taylor Swift

Lena Dunham used the acknowledgements in her new memoir *Famesick* to thank Taylor Swift in unusually personal terms. (today.com) *Famesick* was released on April 14, 2026, and Dunham’s note says Swift’s songs were part of the writing process for the book. NBC’s repost of the TODAY report said Dunham thanked “TayTay” for the music she wrote to and for answering “every desperate call at every desperate hour.” (nbcdfw.com) The memoir covers Dunham’s rise from *Girls* through illness, addiction, heartbreak and recovery, with Random House describing it as a reflection on fame, sex and chronic pain. Dunham said when she announced the book in September 2025 that it had been in the works for seven years and centered on the decade from 2010 to 2020. (penguinrandomhouse.com, rollingstone.com) The acknowledgement landed as a fresh public marker of a friendship that has lasted more than a decade. NBC and TODAY traced it back to Dunham’s 2012 posts praising Swift’s songwriting and her *Red* album. (nbcdfw.com, today.com) The two were photographed together at the Golden Globe Awards on January 12, 2014, and Dunham later appeared onstage during Swift’s *1989 World Tour* in East Rutherford, New Jersey, in July 2015. Those appearances moved the friendship from social media into Swift’s public orbit. (today.com, nbcdfw.com) Swift was also a bridesmaid when Dunham married musician Luis Felber in London in September 2021. Us Weekly reported that the bridesmaids wore silver dresses with jeweled accents at the ceremony. (usmagazine.com) Dunham has spoken carefully about Swift in recent years as the singer’s fame expanded again during the Eras Tour period. In a 2024 interview highlighted by TODAY and Billboard, Dunham said she was “protective” of Swift and said she had felt connected to her music even before they became friends. (today.com, billboard.com) So the note in *Famesick* reads less like a passing celebrity mention than a credit line inside a memoir about survival, work and relationships. Dunham put Swift at the end of that story, in the section reserved for the people she says helped bring the book into the world. (today.com, nbcdfw.com)