Anna Kendrick’s shock personal admission: ‘Abusive'

Pitch Perfect star Anna Kendrick has made a rare comment about her personal life, sharing devastating details about a past relationship.

Anna Kendrick has opened up about the “very difficult” time in her life when she was forced to escape an abusive relationship.

The 39-year-old Twilight star appeared on the Call Her Daddy podcast, where she explained that she’d been in the toxic situation for seven years, but found it “difficult to identify” the truth about the man she was with.

“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’,” Kendrick told host Alex Cooper.

“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 made a rare admission about her personal life. Picture: Valerie Macon/AFP

The Pitch Perfect actress, who has notoriously kept her personal life private throughout her many years in Hollywood, admitted she’d initially thought that she was the cause of the issues she’d been having with her partner – but eventually saw the truth.

“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,” Kendrick said.

“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.”

Kendrick added that her therapist had initially “bought his stuff kind of hook, line and sinker”, but had wound up having to “apologise to her”.

“I think he realised what was going on, like, right toward the end,” she said.

It comes as Kendrick is set to make her directorial debut in Woman of the Hour, which follows an aspiring actress who crosses paths with a serial killer while appearing on an episode of The Dating Game.

It tells the true story of real-life murderer Rodney Alcala, who went on a dating show amid his murder spree in the late ‘70s.

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The actress is making her directorial debut. Picture: Evan Agostini/Invision/AP

The actress also stars in the film, and revealed on an episode of The View this week that while the story was based on the actual killer, she also drew some inspiration from her own life.

“There’s this scene at the beginning where I’m in a casting office, and I stole little things from my real life,” Kendrick told the panel.

“There’s a moment where they ask me if I do nudity and they make this really weird specific comment about my body that’s lifted verbatim from a thing that happened to me when I was 19.”

In the scene, Kendrick’s character, Cheryl Bradshaw, is seen at an audition in 1978, where she tells the directors she isn’t comfortable with nudity.

One of the men then stares directly at her chest and tells her: “I’m sure they’re fine.”

Kendrick confirmed to the co-hosts that it was something that had been said to her two decades ago.

“I was just like, ‘Oh, do you guys mind saying this thing?’ I wasn’t sure I was gonna keep it in the movie,” she said.

“ … The question in every scene for [my character] is, ‘Do you see me as human or do you see me as something else?’” she said.

“By the end of the film, she sort of has her answer. And it’s not a great answer, but it’s some kind of resolution.”