We could’ve been watching season 30 of “Girls” had Meyers helped out!

Lena Dunham confronts Seth Meyers over decades-old SNL incident: ‘Put it out in the open now’

We could've been watching season 30 of "Girls" had Meyers helped out!

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April 30, 2026 2:16 p.m. ET

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Dunham and Meyers on 'Late Night'. Credit:

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- Lena Dunham is calling out Seth Meyers on his talk show over a decades-old *Saturday Night Live* slight.

- The *Girls* creator revealed she asked Meyers to help rewriting her monologue when she hosted *SNL* in March 2014, but that he declined.

- She then suggested that if the monologue had gone better, "*Girls* might still be on the air."

Lena Dunham had a bone to pick with Seth Meyers when visiting *Late Night** *on Wednesday.

The *Girls* creator jokingly called out the late-night host for not helping her rewrite her *Saturday Night Live** *monologue back in 2014, suggesting that the lack of assistance may have caused a butterfly effect that greatly impacted the last decade of her life.

“There’s something I’ve been holding onto since then that I was hoping we could talk about,” Dunham began. “I want you to know I’m not mad at you, but I think it’s better that we just put it out in the open now.”

Dunham and Meyers on 'Late Night'.

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“Yeah, totally,” Meyers agreed. “And I’m glad we didn’t do it backstage.”

As Dunham tells it, Meyers, who had just left *SNL* to host *Late Night*, stopped by Studio 8H while she was preparing to host the show for her first and only time in March 2014. “You came up to visit… and I said, ‘Seth, I’m having a lot of trouble with my monologue, and I’m trying to rewrite it, do you think you could stay here for a couple minutes and help me?’” she recalled. “And you went, ‘No.’”

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Dunham clarified she “wasn’t upset at the time" by Meyers’ refusal, but retroactively realized that his decision may have irrevocably changed her life.

“I was like, ‘Huh. A lot of really hard stuff happened to me over the last 10 years.’ It’s in the book, I don’t know if you read it yet,” she said, referring to her recently-released memoir *Famesick*. “And maybe, had my monologue gone better…”

She continued, “*Girls* might still be on the air. I might not have had some of these really trying times. I may not have had to have uterus removed, Seth.”

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Meyers appeared appropriately fake outraged by the revelation. “Oh my God,” he replied. “So you’re thinking if I had helped — just not even written it, just helped a little bit — you’d still have your uterus?”

When Dunham jokingly agreed, the host quipped back, “You know what? I still have no regrets." He then walked back his comment, sarcastically adding, "I'm* so sorry*, Lena."

In the end, Dunham doesn’t have any regrets either, “because I got to put it all into this story.” The pair appeared to mend fences over the *SNL* slight by the end of their interview, with Dunham signing Meyers’ copy of *Famesick*.

“Dear Seth, I’m not angry,” she wrote. “I love you very much, but only as a friend.”

Watch Dunham confront Meyers in the clip above.

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