Anna Kendrick found it “very difficult” to recognize she was in an abusive relationship.
The 39-year-old actress was in an abusive relationship for seven years – but Kendrick admitted that, for many years, she found it “difficult to identify” the truth about her former partner.
During an appearance on the “Call Her Daddy” podcast, Kendrick shared: “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.’”
“It was like 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 – who hasn’t revealed the name of her ex-partner – initially assumed that she was the cause of their relationship problems.
However, the Hollywood star eventually came to the realization that he was the problem in their relationship.
She explained: “It came out of absolutely nowhere, but was built on this foundation of I had so much love and trust for that person, so I thought it had to be me.
“Like, if one of us is crazy, it must be me. So it was very, very difficult to actually go, ‘No, I think this is him. I think this is his stuff’. I turned my life completely upside down trying to fix whatever was wrong with me.”