Anna Kendrick Recalls Experiencing ‘Emotional Abuse and Psychological Abuse’ in Past Relationship

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Speaking her truth. Anna Kendrick opened up about a challenging past experience in her romantic life while discussing her new movie, Alice, Darling.“I was coming out of a personal experience with emotional abuse and psychological abuse,” the Pitch Perfect actress, 37, recalled to People in an interview published on Wednesday, September 7.

Kendrick talked about playing Alice, a woman stuck in an abusive relationship with her boyfriend, Simon (Charlie Carrick).“I think my rep sent it to me, because he knew what I’d been dealing with and sent it along,” she added. “Because he was like, ‘This sort of speaks to everything that you’ve been talking to me about.’”Kendrick, who was promoting the Mary Nighy-directed feature ahead of its premiere at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival, noted that the screenplay felt “distinct” from other movies about “abusive or toxic relationships” that didn’t match the Maine native’s experience.“It kind of helped me normalize and minimize what was happening to me, because I thought, ‘Well, if I was in an abusive relationship, it would look like that,’” she continued. “I was in a situation where I loved and trusted this person more than I trusted myself.

So, when that person is telling you that you have a distorted sense of reality and that you are impossible and that all the stuff that you think is going on is not going on, your life gets really confusing really quickly.”She added: “And I was in a situation where, at the end, I had the unique experience of finding out that everything I thought was going on was in fact going on.

So, I had this kind of springboard for feeling and recovery that a lot of people don’t get.”The Love Life star went on to say that after the relationship ended,