It Ends With Us is being criticized for its marketing. What do domestic violence survivors say? [Video]

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When Athena Raymond went to see “It Ends with Us,” she knew she’d witness some “dark scenes,” she says. She read the Colleen Hoover book, and as a domestic violence survivor, she felt the novel showed an accurate and unvarnished side of abuse and hoped the film would do the same. Raymond believes it did in some ways, but some aspects of the movie and its marketing seemed a little off to her, she tells TODAY.com.

“I was definitely shocked that at the very minimum (there wasn’t) some sort of (trigger) warning,” the 23-year-old from …