Anna Kendrick found it "very difficult" to recognise she was in an abusive relationship. The 39-year-old actress was in an abusive relationship for seven years - but Anna 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, Anna 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." Anna - 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 the realisation 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.

" Anna's therapist actually "bought his stuff kind of hook, line, and sinker". The 'Pitch Perfect' star added: "I've had several sessions with him in the last several years where he's apologised to me b.