Lena Dunham on going to rehab: ‘It was like the first day of college, except many of the people had a problem with heroin’

An exclusive extract from Famesick, her new memoir • ‘I got everything I dreamed of … ’: read an interview with Lena Dunham Rehab doesn’t happen to you. You happen to rehab. That’s something I kept thinking when, at night, I wept myself to sleep in the tastefully appointed room where I could not keep any sharp objects, not even tweezers, and did not have a lock on my door. I realised it the moment I walked in and they demanded I remove my Marni booties, in keeping with their no-shoes policy, ...