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(CNN) --
Anna Kendrick has spoken openly about her relationship with someone she says was "for all intents and purposes, my husband."
The "Pitch Perfect" star spoke with Monica Padman and Dax Shepard for her "Armchair Expert" podcast about the romantic relationship she had with a person she didn't name but said they lived together.
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“We had embryos together, this was my person,” Kendrick said.
“And then about six years later — or somewhere around there — I remember saying to my brother when things started to get worse, 'I'm living with a stranger.
Like, I don't know what's going on.'”
The actress recently starred in the movie "Alice, Darling," about a woman trapped in an abusive relationship.
Kendrick explained to the podcast hosts that their relationship deteriorated so badly (she said he was "yelling" at her until she was "curled up into a ball sobbing") that she began to believe things like her partner had a brain tumor to justify her behavior. .
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“That really gave me a moment of relief,” Kendrick said.
It allowed her, she said, not to have to believe that she had "done something so horrible that I deserved to live with this stranger who scared the hell out of me."
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"I was like, 'I don't know who this person is,'" Kendrick said.
"It was terrifying."
Kendrick added that her partner revealed to her that he had feelings for someone else and she tried to work on both her and their relationship with therapy, joining Al-Anon and telling her agents that she had a mental health issue and needed a break. .
“I started seeing two therapists a week and I started trying to learn how to meditate and I got into Al-Anon and all of these things ended up being great for me in the long run,” he said.
“But initially I came to them thinking, 'Tell me how to stop being crazy.
Tell me how to stop feeling something.'”
Since then their relationship ended.
