Lena Dunham Responds to Backlash Over Story About Odell Beckham Jr.

— -- Lena Dunham is pushing back after many on social media are criticizing the "Girls" creator for comments she made about Odell Beckham Jr.

During a witty conversation with fellow comedienne Amy Schumer for her newsletter Lenny, Dunham recounted how she sat with the NFL player at the Met Gala back in May.

"I was sitting next to Odell Beckham Jr., and it was so amazing because it was like he looked at me and he determined I was not the shape of a woman by his standards," Dunham wrote. "He was like, 'That's a marshmallow. That's a child. That's a dog.'"

"It wasn't mean – he just seemed confused," Dunham, 30, continued. "The vibe was very much like, 'Do I want to f--- it? Is it wearing a... yep, it's wearing a tuxedo. I'm going to go back to my cell phone.' It was like we were forced to be together, and he literally was scrolling Instagram rather than have to look at a woman in a bow tie."

"I was like, 'This should be called the Metropolitan Museum of Getting Rejected by Athletes,'" the actress deadpanned.

While many Dunham fans understood her snarky sense of humor, others on social media condemned the self-described feminist for being reverse sexist and for making wild assumptions about the New York Giants wide receiver.

By Friday night, Dunham tried to clarify her comments.

".@OBJ_3 is talented, stylish, seems super awesome and wasn't into chatting with me at a fancy party," she said, using Beckham's handle. "My story about him was clearly (to me) about my own insecurities as an average-bodied woman at a table of supermodels & athletes."

"It's not an assumption about who he is or an expectation of sexual attention. It's my sense of humor, which has kept me alive for 30 years," she concluded.

And on Saturday, the actress issued Beckham a lengthy apology on Instagram.

"I owe Odell Beckham Jr an apology," she began. "Despite my moments of bravado, I struggle at industry events (and in life) with the sense that I don't rep a certain standard of beauty and so when I show up to the Met Ball surrounded by models and swan-like actresses it's hard not to feel like a sack of flaming garbage. This felt especially intense with a handsome athlete as my dinner companion and a bunch of women I was sure he'd rather be seated with."

"But I went ahead and projected these insecurities and made totally narcissistic assumptions about what he was thinking, then presented those assumptions as facts," she continued. "I feel terrible about it. Because after listening to lots of valid criticism, I see how unfair it is to ascribe misogynistic thoughts to someone I don't know AT ALL. Like, we have never met, I have no idea the kind of day he's having or what his truth is. But most importantly, I would never intentionally contribute to a long and often violent history of the over-sexualization of black male bodies - as well as false accusations by white women towards black men."

Dunham concluded, "I'm so sorry, particularly to OBJ, who has every right to be on his cell phone. The fact is I don't know about his state of mind (I don't know a lot of things) and I shouldn't have acted like I did."

So far, Beckham, 23, has yet to reply to Dunham on social media. ABC News reached out to Beckham; so far no word back.