Florence Pugh explains her split from Zach Braff
After dating for approximately three years, Florence Pugh and Zach Braff have called it quits.
The 26-year-old actor revealed to Harper’s Bazaar that the two had decided to end their relationship discreetly earlier this year.
“We’ve been trying to do this separation without the world knowing, because it’s been a relationship that everybody has an opinion on,” she said. “We just felt something like this would really do us the benefit of not having millions of people telling us how happy they are that we’re not together. So we’ve done that. I automatically get a lumpy throat when I talk about it.”
The “Black Widow” actress also talked about the attention their relationship with Braff garnered, including comments about their 21-year age difference. Braff, who is 47 years old, posted a birthday message to Instagram for Pugh, who is 26.
Pugh: “Whenever I feel like that line has been crossed in my life, whether it’s paparazzi taking private moments, or moments that aren’t even real, or gossip channels that encourage members of the public to share private moments of famous people walking down the street, I think it’s incredibly wrong,”
“I don’t think that people, just because they have this job, that every aspect of their life should be watched and written about. We haven’t signed up for a reality TV show,” she explained
Pugh felt obligated to explain her relationship with the “Scrubs” star in 2020 when she shared a photo of him on social media to celebrate his 45th birthday.
Pugh claimed that the deluge of nasty comments regarding their connection began within minutes of her publishing the photo. In a three-minute video, she addressed the criticisms that had been levelled at her.
“I do not need you to tell me who I should and should not love,” she said. “And I would never in my life, ever, ever, tell anyone who they can and cannot love. It is not your place, and really, has nothing to do with you.”
Approximately “70 percent of the comments” were “hurling abuse and being horrid,” the performer said, so she had to switch off comments for the first time.
“I will not allow that behavior on my page,” Pugh explained. “I’m not about that. It makes me upset. It makes me sad that during this time when we really all need to be together — we need to be supporting one another, we need to be loving one another, the world is aching and the world is dying — a few of you decided to bully for no reason.”
In an interview with Harper’s Bazaar, Pugh expressed her continued anticipation for the March 2023 publication of “A Good Person,” for which Braff authored the screenplay.
“The movie that we made together genuinely was probably one of my most favorite experiences,” she told Harper’s Bazaar. “It felt like a very natural and easy thing to do.”
She also talked about the sex sequences in her upcoming movie “Don’t Worry Darling,” in which she co-stars with Harry Styles.
“When it’s reduced to your sex scenes, or to watch the most famous man in the world go down on someone, it’s not why we do it. It’s not why I’m in this industry,” she told Harper’s Bazaar. “Obviously, the nature of hiring the most famous pop star in the world, you’re going to have conversations like that. That’s just not what I’m going to be discussing because (this movie is) bigger and better than that. And the people who made it are bigger and better than that.”