Lena Dunham has announced she has quit Twitter, after citing verbal abuse from other users this week.

The "Girls" creator explained she was experiencing repeated incidences of Twitter users posting hurtful comments, according to Time.

"I really appreciate that anybody follows me at all, and so I didn't want to cut off my relationship to it completely, but it really, truly wasn't a safe space for me," Dunham said on Kara Swisher's Re/code podcast.

The 29-year-old spoke of the harsh abuse she received after recently posting a photo of herself posing in a bra and her boyfriend's boxers on Instagram.

"It wasn't a graphic picture," she said. "I was wearing men's boxers, and it turned into the most rabid, disgusting debate about women's bodies."

Dunham also said she will refrain from reading blogs, such as Gawker and Jezebel, from now on due to similar reasons.

"it's literally, if I read it, it's like going back to a husband who beat me in the face -- it just doesn't make any sense," she told Swisher. Later she apologized for this comment on Instagram.

 In a recent interview I compared reading certain websites that have repeatedly insulted me to returning to a physically abusive husband again and again. When I heard my own quote I was like "Jesus, Lena, no." I wasn't making a joke about domestic violence--I was over emphatic in my attempt to capture how damaging the Internet can be (not just to celebrities.) When I first discovered the world wide web as a teenager it felt like salvation. I've met a lot of my best friends there. It's allowed for so much magic. But it also makes room for so much hate and a new kind of violence. I'm not the first to say it. I shan't be the last. But I regret that earlier comparison because it doesn't accurately describe the condition of being attacked online AND it appears to make light of domestic violence, which ain't my style. Sleep tight and thank you for the @lennyletter love today.

A photo posted by Lena Dunham (@lenadunham) on Sep 29, 2015 at 9:33pm PDT


While Dunham says she is leaving Twitter, she has maintained that someone else will post tweets for her.

This week Dunham is also promoting the Lenny newsletter, which she created alongside "Girls" showrunner Jenni Konner. She also hinted that this upcoming season of the HBO series might be the last.

"Never say never, but that is the way that we're thinking about it right now and we're starting to think about how to wrap up the storylines of these particular young women," Dunham said when she was on the phone with the syndicated radio show "Elvis Duran and the Morning Show."

"Girls" returns to HBO for its fifth season in January. The show premiered in April 2012.

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