Lena Dunham, the actress, writer and creator of HBO series Girls, has opened up on a tragic incident that happened to her when she was a college undergrad.

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In an interview on NPR's Fresh Air with Terry Gross posted on Monday, Dunham recalled a sexual assault that happened to her in her younger years when she was at a party.

She had opened up on the incident in a memoir called Not That Kind of Girl, and during her interview with Gross, she said that it's something that recently came to mind because she needed to clear the story up with someone who had connections with the person involved.

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"I actually [have] been thinking about it a lot this week because I sent an email to somebody who I had known at that time who knew the guy who had perpetuated the act," Dunham said. "I wanted to make it clear to this old friend what I felt had happened before he potentially bought the book at Hudson News and read about it."

The Girls star then told this friend how she felt during the situation, which put her in a tragic position although she doesn't feel that way anymore for one particular reason.

"I said to this friend in an email, 'I spent so much time scared; I spent so much time ashamed. I don't feel that way anymore and it's not because of my job, it's not because of my boyfriend, it's not because of feminism, though all those things helped," Dunham said. "It's because I told the story. And I'm still here, and my identity hasn't shifted in some way that I can't repair. And I still feel like myself and I feel less alone."

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