Sarah Hyland is turning her pain into purpose.
The Modern Family alum spoke out about the importance of advocating for domestic violence survivors after experiencing what she called her own abusive relationship. Explaining how painful memories can stay “in that abused place of your soul,” Sarah said she hopes to help others know they’re not alone by sharing her personal story.
“It’s almost like you don’t wanna talk about it anymore,” Sarah told Variety in an interview published Oct. 24. “You want it to be done, and that’s that. I completely understand the dissociation pattern of it.”
In fact, the 33-year-old feels “very much guilty” of doing the same thing “until something happens where I’m triggered,” she said, “and I didn’t realize that part of myself had been healed.”
“I don’t know if that part [of] any woman will ever be fully healed from that,” Sarah—who has been happily married to Bachelor Nation’s Wells Adams since 2022—continued. “It’s something that kind of scars her soul a little bit.”