Lena Dunham rips outlets that claimed she molested her sister

Actress Lena Dunham of the TV series "Girls" at the 70th annual Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills, California January 13, 2013. REUTERS/Jason Redmond (UNITED STATES - Tags: Entertainment) (GOLDENGLOBES-ARRIVALS) - RTR3CEVZ

Lena Dunham lashed out against what she called the “right wing” media, slamming allegations two outlets made that she molested her younger sister.

The “Girls” star was responding to articles in the National Review and Truth Revolt that accused her of sexually abusing her sister. The articles focused on a portion of Dunham’s memoir in which she described exploring her younger sister’s body and kissing her sister when she was a baby.

In “Not that Kind of Girl,” the HBO star wrote: “One day, as I sat in our driveway in Long Island playing with blocks and buckets, my curiosity got the best of me. Grace was sitting up, babbling and smiling, and I leaned down between her legs and carefully spread open her vagina.”

In the book, Dunham described her relationship with her sister, writing: "As [Grace] grew, I took to bribing her for her time and affection: one dollar in quarters if I could do her makeup like a 'motorcycle chick.' Three pieces of candy if I could kiss her on the lips for five seconds. Whatever she wanted to watch on TV if she would just 'relax on me.' Basically, anything a sexual predator might to do woo a small suburban girl I was trying. Maybe, I thought, she would be more willing to accept kisses if I wore the face mask my grandmother had for when she did her dialysis. (The answer was no.) What I really wanted, beyond affection, was to feel that she needed me, that she was helpless without her big sister leading her through the world.”

The headline of the Truth Revolt article read "Lena Dunham Describes Sexually Abusing Her Little Sister," while the National Review wrote of the encounter between Dunham and her sister in the driveway, "There is no non-horrific interpretation of this episode."

After the media outlets accused Dunham of abuse, she was quick to fight back.

“The right wing news story that I molested my little sister isn't just LOL- it's really f--king upsetting and disgusting,” Dunham wrote on Twitter.

But some Twitter users had a hard time accepting Dunham's defense and tweeted that they were disturbed by the passages in her book.

Some fans, however, jumped to Dunham’s defense.