Florence Pugh Cites Zach Braff Relationship Backlash for Why She Won’t Talk About Her Dating Life Anymore
Florence Pugh is done talking about her relationships in the press and she’s citing her previous relationship with Zach Braff for why she has that policy now.
The 29-year-old Thunderbolts actress opened up about the backlash she received for the age gap in her relationship with Zach, 50.
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“With relationships and with romance in this world, it doesn’t matter how much you speak on it or how little you speak on it, people don’t care. They want a story,” Florence told the Louis Theroux Podcast.
She added, “They sort of want a reality show, and so it doesn’t really matter how much you say you love someone or how much they make you happy, if they don’t like them and it doesn’t fit that image that they want of you, they don’t care.”
Florence said that there was an “insane amount of abuse being hurled at my relationship just because there was an age gap.”
“I’ll always defend people that I love, I will always stand up for them. If there needs to be a reset and a bit of a smack on the wrist, I will do that because it’s not fair that so much of your life gets to have jabs,” she said.
Back in April 2020, Florence made an Instagram video in response to the critics of her relationship. She opened up about that video in the new interview.
“Within about eight minutes of the photo being posted, I had about 70 percent of the comments hurling abuse and being horrid, basically bullying someone on my page. It is the first time in my entire Instagram life that I’ve had to turn off the comments on my page. I’ve never been an Instagram page that encourages that. I’ve never been an Instagram page that likes that toxic vibe,” she said.
Florence added, “It got to the point where it was just really horrible to see someone that you are with receiving that, and it was never at me, it was only at him. And I think I just needed to kind of just check everyone, and so I made a video and it got a lot of love and lots of people were supportive, which was great. I do think people online need to be reminded that we’re real.”
Zach later explained why he didn’t speak out against the criticism.
