Anna Kendrick is tremendous outspoken about her abusive relationship and her path to therapeutic. Whereas she hasn’t named her ex-boyfriend, many followers are speculating that it could possibly be Ben Richardson, who she labored with on the film Ingesting Buddies.
“I had simply gotten out of a relationship that was extraordinarily just like the film,” the actress shared about her 2022 film Alice, Darling throughout an episode of Name Her Daddy on October 22, 2024. She talked about how her therapist “purchased” his tales in {couples} remedy periods. “I at all times felt like I used to be making an attempt to remain so calm in {couples} remedy as a result of I used to be like, f—, in these periods, he’s so in a position to sort of keep calm in a method that he doesn’t do once we’re exterior of remedy,” the actress recalled.
She additionally mentioned at sure occasions, her ex would accuse her of terrorizing him. “I used to be simply crying, as a result of I couldn’t fake that issues had been high quality anymore,” she recalled. “I simply began crying and he screamed in my face, ‘You’re terrorizing me.’ Nevertheless it was really from the place of an individual who believed that they had been being terrorized.”
Followers on social media speculated that the one who Anna Kendrick was referring to was cinematographer Ben Richardson. “Ben Richardson is a potato,” one consumer wrote on Name Her Daddy’s TikTok. The 2 dated from 2014 to 2020 and followers had been connecting the dots between what Anna has mentioned about her abusive relationship along with her six-year-long relationship.
Why did Anna Kendrick & Ben Richardson break up?
Each Anna and Ben had been very non-public in the course of the period of their relationship. They by no means defined why they broke up, however Leisure Tonight reported that they had been final photographed collectively in 2019. Anna Kendrick moved on thus far fellow comic Invoice Hader.
The Into the Woods star has expressed her need to maintain her relationships non-public and out of the highlight, thus not wanting to call her ex outright. When requested by The Sydney Morning Herald about her relationship with Ben Richardson in 2022 she mentioned, “Nicely, so far as preserving it non-public, it isn’t straightforward, as you might be proving proper now,” she advised the outlet. “However that’s simply at all times the way it’s been for me.”
Anna began to speak about her abusive relationship with the unnamed ex in 2022 whereas she was selling her movie Alice, Darling. She referred to as him a “poisonous” ex-boyfriend and her “particular person,” saying they dated for six years and made embryos collectively. One nameless consumer reported to DeuxMoi, “it’s clearly Ben Richardson, their engagement resulted in 2020. The timelines for breakup, manufacturing and launch of the brand new movie add as much as Hader.”
As for her present relationship standing, she mentioned that she wants one factor from a person if she’ll ever be in a relationship sooner or later. “I’m by no means getting concerned with a person — that means we’re not even kissing, we’re not even going to have an actual dialog — except you might be in or have been in remedy,” she mentioned on the podcast.
