Lena Dunham said she was officially done with Twitter due to the excessive bullying she faced on the social media site.
The "Girls" star said she recently received an incredible amount of negativity that she called "verbal abuse" and now allows someone else to run her Twitter page for her.
"I don't look at Twitter anymore," she said on Kara Swisher's Re/code Decode podcast. "I tweet, but I do it through someone else... It truly wasn't a safe space for me. I think even if you think you can separate yourself from the kind of verbal violence that's being directed at you, that it creates some really kind of cancerous stuff inside you. Even if you think, 'Oh I can read like 10 mentions that say I should be stoned to death.' That's verbal abuse."
The comedian admitted that she still had an Instagram account and called the social media site a "more positive community," but explained that she almost had to take down one image of her wearing her boyfriend Jack Antonoff's underwear because the comments were so mean.
A photo posted by Lena Dunham (@lenadunham) on Sep 16, 2015 at 9:31pm PDT
"It wasn't a graphic picture," she said. "I was wearing men's boxers, and it turned into the most rabid, disgusting debate about women's bodies, and my Instagram page was somehow the hub for misogynists for the afternoon."
Dunham's HBO series "Girls" returns for a fifth season in January.
