Lily Collins Was In An Emotionally Abusive Relationship

And also you would possibly know that she’s been married to filmmaker Charlie McDowell since 2021.

In a current episode of the We Can Do Hard Things podcast, Lily revealed that she was in an emotionally abusive relationship previous to being with Charlie.

Emily says that it felt like the person who she was in a relationship with “selected” her and that she modified her personal habits in consequence.

“I leaned into what it was that he needed me to be like,” she mentioned. “Needed me to say or not say. Put on, not put on. Do, not do. There was a whole lot of management. Numerous emotional abuse.”

Lily mentioned that the person she was in a relationship with would name her “Little Lily,” and he would additionally demean her appears to be like and name her misogynistic slurs.

“He’d use terrible phrases about me when it comes to what I used to be sporting and would name me a whore and all this stuff,” she mentioned.

Because of how she was handled, Lily mentioned she “turned fairly silent and cozy in silence and feeling like I needed to make myself small to really feel tremendous secure.”

Lily additionally mentioned that the stress from the connection actually made her bodily sick and that she was solely capable of get better from the expertise after coming into remedy.

Lily additionally shared how she and Charlie have prioritized wholesome communication and habits of their relationship.

“We do talk and discuss a lot that he would be the first individual to be like ‘You already know that’s not regular, proper?’ Or ‘that’s fairly fucked up’ or ‘that should really feel bizarre.'”