Florence Pugh addresses controversy about 21-year age hole with ex-boyfriend Zach Braff

Florence Pugh has mentioned she acquired an ‘insane quantity of abuse’ throughout her relationship with Zach Braff as a result of their age hole.

The Oxford-born actress, 29, has opened up concerning the torrent of hate she acquired from on-line trolls throughout their three-year romance, which got here to an finish in 2022.

Though she did not take the verbal bashings mendacity down, Pugh mentioned it’s ‘not honest’ that she and Braff, 50, have been subjected to such intense public scrutiny.

So it is no marvel that she’s since stored schtum about her love life, provided that she had such a tough time throughout her relationship with Braff.

Pugh and the previous Scrubs star obtained collectively in 2019 after assembly on the set of the quick movie Within the Time It Takes to Get There.

The previous couple solely posted just a few uncommon snaps of one another on social media all through their time collectively, however every time they did, the remark part was brimming with outrage about their age hole.

The Do not Fear Darling actress – who’s 21 years youthful than Braff – addressed the criticism a number of occasions through the years, together with in a video shared to Instagram in April 2020.

“I don’t want you to inform me who I ought to and mustn’t love and I might by no means in my life inform anybody who they will and can’t love,” she mentioned within the clip, as per Individuals. “It’s not your home.”

The actress was pressured to show the feedback off on a publish she shared to have a good time her then-boyfriend’s forty fifth birthday, because of the ‘poisonous’ responses she acquired from folks.

Now, Pugh has spoken out concerning the affect that the fixed condemnation of her romance with Braff had on her.

Throughout an look on The Louis Theroux Podcast, she mentioned that folks on-line had ‘no proper to coach’ her on who she needs to be in a relationship with.

“It was an insane quantity of abuse being hurled at my relationship, simply because there was an age hole,” Pugh mentioned.

“I stood up for it, and I stood up for him and I stood up for me simply being allowed to do regardless of the f**ok I needed to do, and that sort of did truly change just a few folks’s minds.”

“I will at all times defend those that I really like, I’ll at all times get up for them,” Pugh continued.

“I will at all times be sure that if there must be a reset and there must be a little bit of a smack on the wrist, I’ll try this as a result of it is not honest that a lot of your life will get to have jabs.”

The Oppenheimer actress admitted it ‘damage’ her when she and Braff have been being bombarded with hate.

“With relationships and with romance on this world, it would not matter how a lot you communicate on it or how little you communicate on it, folks do not care,” Pugh continued.

“They need a narrative; they need a actuality present. It would not actually matter how a lot you say you’re keen on somebody or how a lot they make you content.

“If they do not like them and it would not match that picture that they need of you, they do not care. And I believe that damage me.”

The controversy surrounding her greater than two decade age hole with Braff even got here up when Pugh introduced they’d parted methods throughout an interview with Harper’s BAZAAR in September 2022.

“We have been making an attempt to do that separation with out the world figuring out, as a result of it has been a relationship that everyone has an opinion on,” she mentioned.

“We simply felt one thing like this is able to actually do us the good thing about not having hundreds of thousands of individuals telling us how blissful they’re that we’re not collectively. So we have finished that.”

In December 2023, Braff mentioned that he and Pugh ‘love one another and we’re pals’ when requested about their breakup throughout an look on SiriusXM’s The Jess Cagle Present.