We had no idea!

Lena Dunham appeared on Dax Shepard's Armchair Expert podcast, and made the surprising confession that she's clean and sober after struggling with an anxiety medication addiction.

“I’ve been sober for six months. My particular passion was Klonopin. I was having crazy anxiety and having to show up for things that I didn’t feel equipped to show up for. But I know I need to do it, and when I take a Klonopin, I can do it. It made me feel like the person I was supposed to be. It was like suddenly I felt like the part of me that I knew was there was freed up to do her thing," she admitted.

"It stopped being ‘I take one when I fly,’ to ‘I take one when I’m awake.’ I didn’t have any trouble getting a doctor to tell me, ‘No you have serious anxiety issues, you should be taking this. This is how you should be existing.' I was diagnosed with pretty serious PTSD. I have a few sexual traumas in my past and then I had all these surgeries and then I had my hysterectomy after a period of really extreme pain. It stopped feeling like I had panic attacks and it started feeling like I was a living panic attack. The only thing that was notable was the parts of the day where I didn’t feel like I was going to barf and faint," she revealed.

She eventually realized it was a problem and took the steps to wean herself off the drugs.

"If I look back, there were a solid three years where I was, to put it lightly, misusing benzos, even though it was all quote unquote doctor prescribed. Nobody I know who are prescribed these medications is told, ‘By the way, when you try and get off this, it’s going to be like the most hellacious acid trip you’ve ever had where you’re f—– clutching the walls and the hair is blowing off your head and you can’t believe you found yourself in this situation.’ Now the literal smell of the inside of pill bottles makes me want to throw up. I still feel like my brain is recalibrating itself to experience anxiety. I just feel literally on my knees grateful every day," she added.

Good for her for getting help!