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Lena Dunham Criticizes Rihanna for Dating Chris Brown, Smoking Marijuana
Lena Dunham Criticizes Rihanna for Dating Chris Brown, Smoking Marijuana
January 23, 2013

Golden Globe winner Lena Dunham has a bone to pick with Rihanna. The 26-year-old creator and star of HBO's Girls cited the raunchy pop star for not being a better role model.

During an interview on Alec Baldwin**'s Here's the Thing podcast Jan. 21, Dunham said the 24-year-old pop star's behavior isn't something young fans should try to emulate. "[Fame is] an amazing thing and it's a platform that you have to take seriously. Which is why sometimes, it's like. . . I used to be really into Rihanna, that pop star, and then it's like -- again, I don't want to ever throw stones from my glass house -- but I follow her on Instagram and I just think about how many little girls beyond what I could even comprehend are obsessed with Rihanna."

Dunham continued, "Like, you know, she left Barbados, she's had this amazing career, she's won a Grammy. . . She's talented. And then she gets back together with Chris Brown** and posts a million pictures of them smoking marijuana together on a bed. And it cracks my heart in half in a way that makes me feel like I'm 95 years old."

The TV star, meanwhile, said she's "had to become more conscious about what I say and what I promote, not in a way that stifles me, but just in a way where I realize now that there are 17-year-old girls who come up to me and tell me that the show means a lot to them."

It's not the first time the multitalented comedy star has criticized the on-again couple, who first split in February 2009 after Brown assaulted the "Umbrella" singer just before the Grammys. When the musical duo (who have since reunited romantically in real life) released two sexually explicit songs together in February 2012, Dunham tweeted, "Rihanna and Chris Brown's new duets make me want to go hide under Gloria Steinem's bed for 72 hours."

Dunham is hardly the first high-profile star to criticize the controversial couple: Miranda Lambert** took aim at Brown after he won an award and performed twice at the Grammys in 2012. "I just have to speak my mind, because where I come from, beating up on a woman is never OK. So that's why my daddy taught me early on in life how to use a shotgun," Lambert told concertgoers in Amherst, Mass.

In a series of tweets, Lambert, 29, added: "I don't get it. He beat on a girl. . .Not cool that we act like that didn't happen. He needs to listen to "Gunpowder and Lead" and be put back in his place."

This article originally appeared on Usmagazine.com: Lena Dunham Criticizes Rihanna for Dating Chris Brown, Smoking Marijuana


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Maybe there is hope for the young people in Hollywood
Posted by Fly by night January 26, 2013, 4:29 pm
Who is Lena Dumba s s? Who made her the voice of reason? Oh, right you got your Globe for portraying real women and real situation and now your Mother Theresa. Instead of talking about Rhianna and Chris Brown, WHO YOU DON'T KNOW !!! Talk about the fact that you can't stay away from the refrigerator and how s h i t t y you looked at the Golden Globes !! Now suck on that !!!! Team Breezy, FOOL !!!!!
Posted by Daizydaz January 26, 2013, 3:08 pm
Who is Lena Dumba s s? Who made her the voice of reason? Oh, right you got your Globe for portraying real women and real situation and now your Mother Theresa. Instead of talking about Rhianna and Chris Brown, WHO YOU DON'T KNOW !!! Talk about the fact that you can't stay away from the refrigerator and how s h i t t y you looked at the Golden Globes !! Now suck on that !!!! Team Breezy, FOOL !!!!!
Posted by Daizydaz January 26, 2013, 3:06 pm
What girl has two black eyes? One who has to be told twice.
Posted by firegoddess-hb's January 25, 2013, 3:59 am
Was anyone in the car with rhianna and Chris brown? Maybe in the back seat! NO!! We all make mistakes and fall short of the glory. It happen, its done and he paid the price. You Lena and all the judgmental people have 6 months to mind ur on business and 6 months to lieve others business alone. Lena you have skeletons, try telling some of yours!
Posted by JewellT January 24, 2013, 10:02 pm
Weather its a choice i could make r not to go bk to my abusive boyfriend, what it's anyone one business, tht choice is up to any individual who believin in second chances.each to is own, its tht simple.
Posted by tek it easy January 24, 2013, 9:56 pm
Hbitch! Each to is own?! Yes u do look like a old lady 95 as u feel u look ,stop hating because u can't blaze keep it fly and high ,still selling tracks, CB on the other hand ....is on something else! Be true to ourselves! .. ...i when to a party, adults with kids in there teens, all they r handing around is prescription pills to each other, no joke i was shock! everyone was on something, career female ....etc ...nurse so on! .stop criticizin when u look seriously diagnosis, being urself is tht so hard, she's in the moment and fulljoyin it just look on and be silence,..:@Rihannaexpense.
Posted by tek it easy January 24, 2013, 9:49 pm
Although i am against any form of violence. Who can say how their relationship will end. The 1st notorious crime of passion 1959 woman leaves lover bcause he wont leave wife. Man pays 3 men 2 throw acid n her face, causing total blindness. Man spends 10 years n prison, they marry n 1974 25 yrs later prompting the term .. Love is blind.. She recently passed away. All thru those 63 yrs im sure they heard every opinion out there. But n the end she won the game. Her name was Linda Riss Pugah. Rip
Posted by Ggma January 24, 2013, 5:06 pm
I did'nt ask her for her opinion either.
Posted by asicit January 24, 2013, 4:40 pm
Oh @Miserychick99, Pretty but Dumb, can be Easily Fixed, just Marry A Smart Person! Both of you don't have to be Smart ...just as long as you're Good in Different Areas, you Compliment, and Complete One Another! Smooches! Ha!
Posted by Bbthumper January 24, 2013, 3:39 pm

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