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  Mena Suvari talked to The Guardian about an abusive relationship with her former boyfriend, detailing revelations she made in her 2021 memoir. Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP A previous relationship with a former partner permanently affected actor Mena Suvari’s perspective on sex, she told The Guardian in an interview published Wednesday. Suvari, who is best known for her roles in the 1999 films “American Beauty” and “American Pie,” says her ex, a lighting engineer, coerced her into using uncomfortable sex toys and forced her to pick up other women for threesomes. The 43-year-old writes about the experience in her 2021 memoir, “The Great Peace.” From name-calling to needing medical treatment after repeated, rough anal sex, she said she was so desperate for his affection that she dealt with the abuse by doing drugs. “I was not being loved. I was just a body, a receptacle for his desires,” she wrote in her memoir. While in the relationship, Suvari said, she endured countless acts of sex...

  Penn Badgley revealed on the latest episode of his “Podcrushed” podcast that he’s been given a director’s note every time he’s filmed a masturbation scene for “You” to make the scene “less creepy.” The note always leaves the actor baffled considering he stars on the series as a serial killer. “You” started its run on Lifetime before it exploded in popularity with its Season 2 debut on Netflix. “Every time I’ve done a masturbation scene…I’ve always gotten the note to make it less creepy,” Badgley told co-hosts Sophie Ansari and Nava Kavelin and the episode’s guest, his former “Gossip Girl” co-star Chace Crawford (via Insider). “They say like, ‘Close your eyes or go faster or go slower.’ I’m like, ‘What? This man is fucking murdering people, and he’s masturbating in the street. You’re saying I’m making it creepy? How is it I’m the one making it creepy?'” “I just remember I wouldn’t close my eyes and the director came up to me,” Badgley added. “He was like ‘Buddy, I think you gotta ...