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Bullied Christina Hendricks ‘felt scared’ in high school

Christina Hendricks was once a victim of bullying.

At 13 years old, Hendricks and her family relocated to Fairfax, Va., where she was bullied and tormented by her classmates.

“We had a locker bay, and every time I went down there to get books out of my locker people would sit on top and spit at me. So I had to have my locker moved because I couldn’t go in there … I felt scared in high school. It was like ‘Lord of the Flies.’ There was always some kid getting pummeled and people cheering,” Hendricks revealed to The Guardian in an interview published Sunday.

Due to her father’s job, her family left the small town of Twin Falls, Idaho, and moved across the country where Hendricks was left friendless. She discovered acting through her high school drama department and began dressing like a goth.

Her parents told her she wouldn’t make friends dressing the way that she was and she responded: “I don’t want those people to be my friends. I’m never going to be friends with the people who beat up a kid while everyone is cheering them on. I hate them.”

Now, she’s finishing up her last season playing Joan on “Mad Men,” and promoting her new movie “God’s Pocket,” starring Phillip Seymour Hoffman, which is out August 8.