Jena Malone Says She Was Sexually Assaulted During Hunger Games

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Jena Malone is speaking out.

The histrion said she was sexually assaulted successful France successful the midst of filming the 2015 movie The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2, she shared successful a Feb. 28 Instagram post.

While posting an representation taken successful a French countryside soon aft wrapping the last movie successful the franchise, Jena shared she was experiencing "a swirling premix of emotions im lone present conscionable learning to benignant thru."

"This clip successful Paris was highly hard for maine , was going thru a atrocious interruption up and besides was sexually assaulted by idiosyncratic I had worked with," she wrote, adding that she was inactive "so afloat of gratitude for this project, the radical I became adjacent with and this astonishing portion I got to play."

Jena, who played tribute Johanna Mason successful the franchise, continued, "I privation it wasn't tied to specified a traumatic lawsuit for maine but that is the existent wildness of beingness I I guess. How to clasp the chaos with the beauty."

The 38-year-old said didn't sanction the idiosyncratic who allegedly assaulted her.

She said she has "worked precise hard to heal and larn thru restorative justice," arsenic good arsenic approaching "how to marque bid with the idiosyncratic who violated maine and marque bid with myself."

Jena noted, "it's been hard to speech astir the Hunger Games," and her quality without "feeling the sharpness of this infinitesimal successful clip but I'm acceptable to determination thru it and reclaim the joyousness and accomplishment I felt."

"Lots of emotion to you survivors retired there," she concluded her message. "The process is truthful dilatory and non linear. I privation to accidental im present for anyone who needs to speech oregon vent oregon unfastened uncommunicated spaces wrong themselves."

E! News has reached retired to Lionsgate for remark and hasn't heard back.

Her Hunger Games co-star Willow Shields, who played Primrose Everdeen (sister to Jennifer Lawrence's Katniss Everdeen) successful the movies, commented underneath, "This station has maine astatine a nonaccomplishment of words. I recognize and I anticipation that though the process is truthful dilatory you are good Jena."

Jena besides responded to a societal media idiosyncratic who commented, "and unluckily whoever violated you got to locomotion distant with nary repercussions," to which Jena replied, "no that's not true."

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"I utilized restorative justness to let healing and accountability and maturation with the different person," the Pride & Prejudice histrion went on. "It was a hard process but 1 I judge genuinely helped maine determination thru immoderate of the hardest parts of the grief."

She besides elaborate her healing process successful different reply connected Instagram, noting that she "did a batch of online research" and would 1 time "try and constitute retired the process I used" erstwhile she's ready.

"What pb maine determination was feeling not held by 'outing' idiosyncratic utilizing the accepted cancel similar civilization that has been created," she said. "I besides don't afloat spot however the transgression justness strategy could afloat repair my healing, though I bash judge it tin assistance successful galore ways. It each pb maine to utilizing restorative justice, fundamentally a strategy of repairing harm, to talk to the different enactment progressive and marque requests of my healing travel and truly conscionable beryllium heard."

Noting that the method "wasn't perfect" and that she could've "used the assistance of the galore teachers retired determination who signifier restorative justness successful mediation settings," Jena recalled feeling like she "needed to bash it alone."

In different comment that stated, "Fellow subsister present that loves you," Jena sent a heartfelt connection back.

"love you," she wrote. "Happy to telephone you sister."

For free, confidential help, telephone the National Sexual Assault Hotline astatine 1-800-656-4673 oregon sojourn rainn.org.

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