Anna Kendrick Reveals She Survived "Emotional Abuse And Psychological Abuse" From A Prior Relationship
"Pitch Perfect" and "A Simple Favor" star Anna Kendrick, 37, stars in a new upcoming film entitled "Alice, Darling" about a woman stuck in an abusive relationship. She shocked many, though, when she revealed that she recently went through a similar experience in her personal life.
Anna Kendrick originally became famous for her humor and quirkiness on screen, but she has proven herself to be a serious actress, and she has found many ways to feel connected to the latest role she took in a film called Alice, Darling. Directed by Mary Nighy and starring Anna alongside Charlie Carrick, it tells the story of a woman with a psychologically abusive boyfriend who becomes the focus of an intervention from her friends. Apparently, this role was deeply personal for Anna as it allowed her to tap into experiences she had with an abusive ex.
Anna Kendrick Reveals She Survived "Emotional Abuse and Psychological Abuse" from a Prior Relationship
Anna opened up to People and shared that the plot "resonated" with her due to a past relationship. She thinks her rep sent it to her on purpose "because he knows what I'd been dealing with." He told her, "This sort of speaks to everything that you've been talking to me about."
"It felt really distinct in that I had, frankly, seen a lot of movies about abusive or toxic relationships, and it didn't really look like what was happening to me," Anna said. "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.'"
Anna doesn't reveal who this person was, but she said she still struggles to this day to not blame herself. "My body still believes that it was my fault," she said. It took a lot for her to "walk out of that relationship knowing that I wasn't crazy."
"I was in a situation where I loved and trusted this person more than I trusted myself," she continued. "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. 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."
Anna gushed about the relationships she built with "these collaborators" and said "sharing our personal histories" was a special, healing thing to experience.