Jena Malone has been dealing with a “swirling mix of emotions” since wrapping up the 2015 movie “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2.” That’s because she says she was sexually assaulted by someone who also contributed to the film worked.
The ‘Consecration’ star shared a photo of herself in the French countryside on Tuesday Instagramwhile noting in her caption that the snapshot was taken when she was “going through a bad breakup and also being sexually assaulted by someone I had worked with.”
“I was so thankful for this project, the people I got close to and this amazing role I got to play,” she wrote. “A swirling mix of emotions that I am only now learning. I wish it wasn’t tied to such a traumatic event for me, but that’s the real wildness of life I guess.”
Representatives from Hunger Games studio Lionsgate did not immediately respond to The Times’ request for comment on Wednesday.
In 2013’s The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, the second film in the series, Malone made her debut as the confident and vicious killer Johanna Mason. She returned in 2014’s ‘The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1’ and 2015’s ‘Mockingjay – Part 2′. The films are an adaptation of Suzanne Collins’ successful YA book series.
Malone, who did not name her alleged abuser, wrote of healing from the attack and learning to “make peace with the person who violated me and make peace with myself.”
The “Neon Demon” actor continued: “It was hard to talk about the Hunger Games and Johanna Mason without feeling the edge of this moment, but I am ready to go through it and reclaim the joy and achievement that I felt.”
She concluded her post with a musing on the “slow and non-linear” process of healing from abuse, and expressed her support for survivors of sexual assault.
“I want to say that I am here for anyone who needs to talk or vent or open uncommunicated spaces within themselves. Please DM me if you need a safe space to be heard.”
