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Lily Collins Opens Up About Toxic Relationship with Ex who Called Her a 'Whore'

Lily Collins Opens Up About Toxic Relationship with Ex who Called Her a 'Whore'

Lily Collins spoke about an emotionally and verbally abusive relationship in her past during a recent interview.

The 33-year-old Emily in Paris actress appeared on the We Can Do Hard Things podcast, where she got candid about the relationship and explained how it affected her.

She also revealed what drew her into a relationship with a man she said called her a “whore” and made her “feel very small.”

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“A lot of it was he chose me,” she said about what drew her in. “I leaned into what it was that he wanted me to be like. Wanted me to say or not say. Wear, not wear. Do, not do. There was a lot of control. A lot of emotional abuse.”

“He would call me ‘Little Lily,’” she recalled. “He’d use awful words about me in terms of what I was wearing and would call me a whore and all these things.”

She explained how it affected her, saying “I became quite silent and comfortable in silence and feeling like I had to make myself small to feel super safe.” Lily said that her body reacted to the relationship, making her physically ill.

The horribly experience “led her to therapy” and helped her find an outlet to discuss her feelings.

If you weren’t aware, Lily has moved on and found a happy and healthy relationship with Charlie McDowell, who she married in 2021.

“We do communicate and talk about so much that he will be the first person to be like ‘You know that’s not normal, right? Or that’s pretty f-cked up or that must feel weird,’” she said of her husband.

Check out the rest of Lily‘s interview here.

The actress recently opened up about feedback to her popular Netflix series.

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