‘I’ve labored very exhausting to heal’: Jena Malone reveals she was sexually assaulted whereas taking pictures the Starvation Video games movies… however she does not identify her assailant because of ‘cancel tradition’

Jena Malone revealed that she had been sexually assaulted whereas filming the Starvation Video games sequence in an Instagram submit from Wednesday.

The submit, which included a sun-drenched picture of her taken within the French countryside after wrapping on the favored dystopian movie sequence, featured a prolonged caption detailing the tough time in her life.

The 38-year-old actress — who got here out as pansexual final yr — steered away from naming the one that allegedly assaulted her, as that they had engaged in ‘restorative justice’ to heal to assist her heal.

Malone was featured within the Starvation Video games sequels Catching Fireplace and the two-part Mockingjay as Johanna Mason.

DailyMail.com has reached out to Malone’s representatives for remark. 

Reminiscences: She shared a photograph of herself snapped in a subject in France, whereas noting that she was going by way of a nasty break up and had been ‘sexually assaulted by somebody I had labored with’

In her yellow-tinted picture, she sported dyed blond hair and wore a denim jacket whereas standing amid a subject of swaying wheat and gazing into the digicam. 

‘This picture was taken proper after I wrapped mocking Jay half two and I needed to say goodbye to everybody on set,’ she started, after including a ‘set off warning’ to her followers. 

‘We have been taking pictures in a stupendous property within the countryside of France and I requested the motive force to let me out on this subject so I may cry and seize this second,’ she continued. ‘Even tho this time in Paris was extraordinarily exhausting for me , was going through a nasty break up and likewise was sexually assaulted by somebody I had labored with , I used to be so stuffed with gratitude for this challenge, the individuals I turned shut with and this superb half I bought to play [sic].’ 

She known as the occasions ‘a swirling mixture of feelings’ that she was ‘solely now simply studying to kind through [sic].’ 

‘I want it wasn’t tied to such a traumatic occasion for me however that’s the actual wildness of life I I assume. How you can maintain the chaos with the sweetness,’ Malone wrote.

She added extra element in regards to the assault, claiming she and the one that assaulted her had discovered a approach to transfer on privately, slightly than getting police concerned. 

‘I’ve labored very exhausting to heal and study through restorative justice , make peace with the one that violated me and make peace with myself. It’s been exhausting to speak in regards to the starvation video games and [her character] Johanna Mason with out feeling the sharpness of this second in time however I’m prepared to maneuver through it and reclaim the enjoyment and accomplishment I felt [sic],’ she wrote.

Restorative justice is a course of that excludes the felony justice system and as a substitute brings the sufferer of a criminal offense face-to-face with the perpetator. The sufferer can share how the crime affected them whereas detailing steps that the perpetrator can take to proper the wrongs, which may take many alternative types.

Therapeutic: She added extra element in regards to the assault, claiming she and the one that assaulted her had discovered a approach to transfer on privately by way of restorative justice, slightly than getting police concerned; nonetheless from The Starvation Video games: Mockingjay — Half 2 (2015)

Various therapeutic: After one poster complained that the perpetrator bought away with their crime, Jena denied that was the case and stated she bought ‘therapeutic and accountability and progress with the opposite particular person’; seen in August 2022 in LA

The aim of the strategy is to place victims accountable for the response to the crime, and it focuses on their therapeutic, slightly than merely punishing the perpetrator, which advocates say is the usual strategy of the felony justice system. 

Malone ended her submit by sharing ‘plenty of like to you survivors on the market.’

‘There course of is so gradual and non linear. I wish to say im right here for anybody who wants to speak or vent or open uncommunicated areas inside themselves,’ she wrote, whereas providing that individuals may ship her messages if essential.

Within the feedback, one consumer complained that the one that sexually assaulted her ‘bought to stroll away with no repercussions,’ which she pushed again on in a reply.

‘That’s not true. I used restorative justice to permit therapeutic and accountability and progress with the opposite particular person,’ she replied. ‘It was a tough course of however one I consider actually helped me transfer through a few of the hardest components of the grief.’

In one other reply, she added that she hadn’t named the particular person because of ‘cancel tradition,’ suggesting that she did not wish to drag their identify by way of the mud after that they had atoned to her.

Malone added that she did not ‘totally see how the felony justice system may totally restore my therapeutic.’ 

Though she described her assailant as somebody she had ‘labored with,’ she did not make clear if it was on one of many Starvation Video games movies or one other challenge 

Jena, who started her profession as a toddler actress within the mid-Nineties, had a troubled early profession that noticed her win emancipation from her mom when she was simply 15, after claiming that the cash she earned from appearing had been mismanaged.

Out of the highlight: In one other reply, she added that she hadn’t named the particular person because of ‘cancel tradition,’ suggesting that she did not wish to drag their identify by way of the mud after that they had atoned to her

After getting an early begin in high-profile movies together with Contact, Stepmom and the cult traditional Donnie Darko, Malone targeted totally on acclaimed indie and artwork movies, although she nonetheless often seems in bigger-budget fare.

Her subsequent huge challenge will see her reuniting with director Zack Snyder, who she labored with on Sucker Punch and Batman V Superman: Daybreak Of Justice.

She can be featured in a supporting position in his area opera Insurgent Moon, together with Sofia Boutellz, Djimon Hounsou, Anthony Hopkins and the Recreation Of Thrones stars Ed Skrein and Michiel Huisman.

She is at present filming Kevin Costner’s Western movie Horizon.