Lily Collins opens up about the emotional violence she experienced with her ex-partner

On February 8, during his participation in the podcast We Can Do Hard ThingsLily Collins recalled the abuse she suffered at the hands of an ex-boyfriend when she was in her early 20s.

Furthermore, the protagonist of Emily in Paris He shared some details about this relationship “marked by verbal and emotional violence”, for which he still suffers from post-traumatic symptoms.

“Little Lily” was the nickname with which the former British-American actress referred to her. However, far from being affectionate, this nickname was used by this abusive couple in order to belittle the protagonist of Emily in Paris from Netflix, who confessed to having felt “very small” in front of him.

For me, my toxic romantic relationship was verbal and emotional abuse. She called me ‘little Lily’ and used horrible words about me in terms of what she was wearing, she called me p…

Speaking about how her behavior triggered feelings of “panic” and “anxiety”, the 33-year-old actress said:

There were horrible words and then demeaning words. I became quite silent and comfortable in the silence. I felt like I had to make myself small to feel super confident.

Lily, who did not share the identity of her toxic ex, has been romantically linked to famous faces including Taylor Lautner, Zac Efron, Chris Evans and Nick Jonas, but there is no indication that she was talking about any of them.

Fortunately, the star of The Miserables she is now in a healthy relationship with her husband, American filmmaker Charlie McDowell, although she confessed that she still feels “traumatized” by her former toxic romance.

It’s like a millisecond, or less than a millisecond, and your gut reacts, your heart starts beating, and all of a sudden you go back to that moment where you were told that ten years ago, but you’re not in that situation now and that’s the trigger and it is extremely difficult. It is awful.