Lily Collins Opens Up About Anorexia and Abusive Relationship
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The daughter of Phil Collins reveals she quietly suffered through an abusive relationship and a life-threatening eating disorder.

AceShowbiz - Lily Collins opens up about suffering a dangerous eating disorder and abuse from her ex-boyfriend. The daughter of Phil Collins began struggling with anorexia at age 16. In high school, she began skipping meals and relying on gum and coffee to get through the day.

Lily also secretly abused diet pills and laxatives for years until her twenties. "My mom would eventually uncover my adduction by finding the leftover opened boxes and pill bottles in the back of my bathroom cupboards," she writes in her new book, "Unfiltered", as quoted by Radar Online.

Following stints of starvation, the "Mirror Mirror" actress began binging on extreme amounts of fatty foods and purging. "I'd go to the supermarket late at night and load up on every type of junk food possible and return home to my bedroom and just eat and eat," she recalls, "I'd finally boxes of cookies, pints of ice cream, cupcakes, slices of cake, and then go into my bathroom and throw it all up."

"My hair and nails lost their shine and became brittle," she continues, "My throat burned and my esophagus ached. My period stopped for a couple years and I was terrified I had ruined my chances at having kids."

Lily says she hit her lowest weight in 2013 before she found recovery. "Healing is an ongoing process, and I will be working through my disorders for the rest of my life. But I know now that there is a greater happiness to be attained in this world," shares the 27-year-old actress.

In her book, Lily also opened up about her past abusive relationship. Her boyfriend would use a "belittling tone" and "verbal reprimands" at times. She recalls, "He yelled at me, calling me horrible things like dumb, blind, stupid, selfish and a whore. I was made to feel unworthy, less than, and frankly, like a piece of s**t."

The abuse turned physical during an argument. "His hand reached out and closed around my neck," she explains, "Part of me feels strange even calling it choking because I can't imagine this person doing such a thing, yet it still felt extremely threatening. It shocked me to the core."

Lily's mother and friends held an intervention after she broke up and reconciled with her abusive boyfriend. "They begged me to value myself again," she says, before adding, "Emotional abuse is nothing to be taken lightly. It's an incredibly dangerous and disgusting thing that is far more common than I thought."

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