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Melissa Joan Hart DENIES rumor she’s having ‘beef’ with Lena Dunham and insists she’s a ‘fan’ of her work: ‘We haven’t even had the pleasure of meeting’
Melissa Joan Hart has denied a bizarre rumor that she is feuding with Lena Dunham.
The 46-year-old actress cleared the air over a seemingly random gossip that she had a feud with the 36-year-old actress and director and that they were “frenemies.”
The kerfuffle started when celebrity gossip account DeuxMoi posted a blind entry claiming that Melissa “broke it out” for Lena.
Feud? Melissa Joan Hart has denied a bizarre rumor that she is feuding with Lena Dunham
It read, “They’ve been enemies for a long time (Lena’s dad was friends with the creator of Clarissa Explains It All). The dinner fight over drag queens was just one piece of the puzzle.”
Lena’s father is artist Carroll Dunham and the creator of Clarissa Explains It All – in which Melissa starred from 1991 to 1994 – was Mitchell Kriegman.
The post continued, “Melissa has a knack for alienating people in her life — they disappear like magic. Her views are controversial (and chaotic) and she really gets into fights about it. I haven’t seen the Instagram story, but it’s common knowledge in both circles that they’ve been fighting for a while.”
Shadow: The feud started when celebrity gossip account DeuxMoi posted a blind entry claiming that Melissa “broke it out” for Lena
Interesting: The user claimed that Lena’s artist father Carroll Dunham was friends with the creator of Clarissa Explains It All, he is pictured here (left to right) with Grace Dunham, Lena Dunham and Laurie Simmons in New York in November 2010
Melissa was the lead on the Nickelodeon program Clarissa Explains it all from 1991 to 1994
Warming up: Another tipster sent in a blind entry that they witnessed Anjelica Huston punch Lena at a party after working on a Lifetime movie with Melissa
Icon: Huston can be seen in Hollywood in May 2015
Another tipster sent in a blind entry that they witnessed Anjelica Huston punch Lena at a party after she worked on a Lifetime movie with Melissa.
Melissa didn’t mince words when she addressed these rumors while claiming that she and Lena had never met before.
She wrote, “So I don’t normally pay attention to the tabloid press, but countless friends have asked me about my “rivalry” with @lenadunham and I’m really confused.
“We don’t have “beef,” and as far as I remember we haven’t even had the pleasure of meeting, let alone have enough relationship to warrant some time discussing drag queens. Don’t let them get you with flashy links because they’ll pretend to tell you hot gossip that doesn’t exist.”
‘I’m really confused’: Melissa didn’t mince words when she addressed these rumors while claiming she and Lena had never met before
Melissa (pictured in April) explained, “We don’t have “beef,” and as far as I remember we haven’t even had the pleasure of meeting, let alone had enough relationship to warrant some time to to discuss drag queens. Don’t let them get you with flashy links because they pretend to tell you hot gossip that doesn’t exist’
She went on to say that while they have never met, she is an admirer of the Girls star’s work and what she has done for women in the industry.
Melissa concluded, “I’m a fan of Lena’s work and everything she does to support women in our industry and hope to share a latte one day.”
“Be careful not to get caught up in the hateful rhetoric of these sites that promote divisiveness and spout nonsense for profit. #mytedtalk’
Lena has yet to comment on the rumors and Melissa’s post.