Anna Kendrick opens up about her seven-year abusive relationship

Anna Kendrick opens up about leaving an abusive seven-year relationship.

On Alex Cooper's Wednesday, October 23rd episode Call her dad On the podcast, Kendrick, 39, who did not name the ex she was referring to, admitted that she found it “hard to recognize” that she was initially in an abusive relationship because “it didn't follow the traditional pattern.” .

“I read all the articles and said to myself, 'This doesn't look like it… like some of it looks like they describe it, but not completely,'” she recalled, confirming that “the relationship was like this for seven years.” .”

“It was like an overnight change…that lasted about a year. So it didn't follow the more traditional principle, it's like a frog in boiling water where it starts slowly,” he said dusk The actress told Cooper that the breakup happened shortly before she began filming her 2022 film Alice, darlinga film about emotional abuse.

“It came completely out of nowhere, but it was based on the foundation that I had so much love and trust in this person, so I thought it had to be me,” Kendrick said, thinking she was the problem.

“If one of us is crazy, it has to be me. So it was very, very difficult to actually say, 'No, I think that's him. I think that's his stuff,'” she continued. “I completely turned my life upside down and tried to sort out what was going on with me.”

The star claimed her couples therapist had been buying “his kind of hook, line and sinker” for “a long time.”

“I've had several sessions with him over the last few years where he apologized to me because I don't think he realized what was going on until toward the end,” Kendrick explained, before recounting how “something changed after she “screamed” in a therapy session.

Kendrick said she emailed her therapist to apologize, but he called and told her he was actually “so proud” of her for speaking out. “Things ended pretty quickly after that,” Kendrick admitted.

The Trolls The actress told Cooper about an incident with her ex: “He told me one day that I was terrorizing him because I just cried because I couldn't pretend everything was okay anymore and I just started to cry. And he screamed in my face, 'You're terrorizing me.' But it was really from the perspective of a person who thought he was being terrorized.”

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Kendrick previously spoke to PEOPLE about being in an abusive relationship at the world premiere of the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival Alice, darlingIt's about a woman who is in an emotionally abusive relationship with her successful boyfriend Simon (Charlie Carrick).

In her interview with Cooper, Kendrick said that she actually didn't tell “anyone” about making a film about emotional abuse at the time because it happened so soon after their relationship ended.

“I had just gotten out of a relationship that was very similar to the movie,” she said on the podcast. “And I didn’t want anyone to tell me not to do it.”