In 2017, Lena took to Twitter to publicly defend Girls writer Murray Miller after he was accused of rape by actress Aurora Perrineau. In her tweet, Lena said she had “insider information” about the situation which she later revealed was not true. 

In her apology to Aurora, she wrote, “When someone I knew, someone I had loved as a brother, was accused, I did something inexcusable: I publicly spoke up in his defense. There are few acts I could ever regret more in this life. I didn't have the 'insider information' I claimed but rather blind faith in a story that kept slipping and changing and revealed itself to mean nothing at all.”