Update, November 19, 8:56 a.m.: In a statement posted to her Twitter account Saturday night, Dunham apologized for defending Murray. “ I never thought I would issue a statement publically (sic) supporting someone accused of sexual assault, but I naively believed it was important to share my perspective on my friend’s situation as it has transpired behind the scenes over the last few months. I now understand that it was absolutely the wrong time to come forward with such a statement and I am so sorry.“

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The sexual assault and misconduct accusation floodgates have been blown open in Hollywood, and almost every day for the last month and a half has seen new accusations brought against men in the industry. This week, actress Aurora Perrineau, who had a role in last year’s Passengers, alleged Girls screenwriter Murray Miller raped her in 2012 when she was seventeen.

Perrineau told The Wrap that she filed a report with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department on Friday, and the publication obtained the results of her September polygraph test in which she described the incident. According to Perrineau, she and a group of friends met Miller at a party at the Standard Hotel, where she repeatedly told Miller she was 17, and Miller asked them for a ride home because he’d been drinking. When they got to his house everyone got out of the car and Perrineau reluctantly followed. “At some point,” she said, “I woke up in Murray’s bed naked. He was on top of me having sexual intercourse with me. At no time did I consent to any sexual contact with Murray.”

Miller’s legal team provided a statement to The Hollywood Reporter in which they unequivocally deny the allegations. “Mr. Miller categorically and vehemently denies Ms. Perrineau’s outrageous claims," attorney Don Walerstein said in the statement. "After being contacted several weeks ago by lawyers who — on Ms. Perrineau’s behalf — sought substantial monetary damages from him, Mr. Miller’s legal team gathered overwhelming evidence directly contradicting these false and offensive claims.”

On Friday night, Girls co-showrunners Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner also released a statement to T.H.R. in which they also deny the accusations against Miller, saying that Perrineau’s statement is “one of the 3 percent of assault cases that are misreported every year.”