“I just couldnt spend another second breathing dishonest air.”

As Kendrick put it, opening up during the press tour was how “the Band-Aid got ripped off.

But even before that point, she struggled to keep those emotions inside.

Anna Kendrick at the “Woman of the Hour” Los Angeles premiere held at The Egyptian Theatre Hollywood on October 10, 2024 in Los Angeles, California.

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“I think Id hit a point of critical mass, she told the outlet.

I just couldnt spend another second breathing dishonest air.

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She adds that it got to such an extreme point that she began trauma-dumping on unsuspecting strangers.

Woman of the Hour. (L-R) Denalda Williams as Marilyn and Anna Kendrick as Sheryl in Woman of the Hour

Anna Kendrick in ‘Woman of the Hour’.Leah Gallo/Netflix

I physically couldnt continue performing.

Lately, the actress has not shied away from addressing that difficult period of her life.

It was like an overnight switch that went on for about a year.

And he screamed in my face, ‘You’re terrorizing me.’

But it was truly from the place of a person who believed that they were being terrorized.”

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“I was thinking about how even very subtle victim blaming is baked into our culture, she shared.