Anna Kendrick Reveals How ‘Something Shifted’ in 7-Year Abusive Relationship
Trigger Warning: This article discusses topics of emotional and verbal abuse.
Anna Kendrick joined Alex Cooper on an episode of the Call Her Daddy podcast and revealed her previous struggles in a 7-year abusive relationship.
The hour-long podcast episode featured the actress speaking about her most known projects, such as Pitch Perfect and Twilight. However, listeners were not expecting to hear about Kendrick and her story of an emotionally abusive ex.
Alex Cooper, the girl boss behind the podcast, asks Anna Kendrick about the 2022 film she starred in, Alice, Darling. She asks if the actress hesitates or enjoys the moments when she portrays a more intense role. Kendrick responds that she did not tell anybody about the film because she had recently “gotten out of a relationship that was extremely similar to the movie.” She details that she didn’t want anyone to tell her to not do the role or get talked out of the film.
The actress reveals that the relationship did not “follow the traditional pattern,” which made it harder for her “to identify it and name it as abusive.” The actress adds, “I was, like, reading all the articles and going, ‘This doesn’t look… like, some of it looks like how they’re describing it, but not completely.” She compares it to an “overnight switch… that went on for about a year. So it didn’t follow that more traditional, like, it’s like a frog in boiling water thing where it started slow.”
Kendrick had struggled with what was going on, especially when the couple would visit their therapist. At one specific session, she recounts she “lost” it, and her partner was oddly calm throughout the ordeal to prove she was crazy. Afterward, she emailed, apologizing to her therapist for feeling “embarrassed” and “sorry.” To her surprise, she received a call from the therapist after he bought her partner’s “hook, line, and sinker” for a pretty “long period of time.”
The therapist has since apologized, “I think he realized what was going on, like right toward the end,” and details that he told her he was proud. This led the actress to confirm that “something shifted” from that one specific therapy session. She concludes, “Things ended pretty quickly after that.”
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