has bravely opened up about her , sharing that she once had to escape an abusive relationship. The appeared on the podcast where she revealed to host that she’d been in a “very difficult” toxic relationship for seven years but it took the 39-year-old quite some time to realise that what she was experiencing was abusive. “I was, like, reading and going, ‘This doesn’t look.
.. like, some of it looks like how they’re describing it, but not completely,” she explained, noting that her experience didn’t align with the typical pattern of abuse.
“It came out of absolutely nowhere. It’s like a frog in boiling water thing where it started slow”. Reflecting on the difficult time in her life, Kendrick revealed that she often blamed herself, thinking she was to blame for the toxic parts of her relationship.
“I was in a situation where I loved and trusted this person more than I trusted myself. 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,” she explained. “I turned my life completely upside down trying to fix whatever was wrong with me.
” The star shared that she eventually started to feel like she was the problem, and constantly made to feel like she was antagonising her partner. “He told me one day I was terrorizing him because I was just crying because I couldn’t pretend that thing.