Florence Pugh (Oxford, 29) admitted the reason she stopped speaking publicly about her romantic life: Trolls. In 2019, the British actress was in a relationship with actor Zach Braff (New Jersey, 50 years old), and they received many negative comments due to their 21-year difference. This is harassment connected It was a difficult moment for the couple then, which is why the translator no longer talks about it. “In this world, where relationships and romance, it doesn’t matter if you talk about it a lot or a little, people don’t care. They want a story,” Pugh said in an interview with the magazine. the Louis Theroux Podcast. “They want a reality show, So, it doesn’t matter how much you say you love someone or how happy you are with them; “If they don’t like it and it doesn’t fit the image they have of you, they won’t care.”
The actress’s love story from films like Little women also Don’t worry dear With Braff, who became known in the 2000s with this series ScrubsIt lasted from 2019 to 2022. When the couple went public with their relationship, Pugh has now said she received “a fair amount of insults just because of the age difference.” He specifically recalls an occasion when he uploaded a photo of himself to his Instagram account – where he today has 10 million followers – to celebrate his birthday: “Within eight minutes of posting the photo, almost 70% of the comments were insults and horrible comments. Basically, they were harassing someone on my networks,” he says. “This is the first time in my Instagram career that I’ve had to disable comments. I’ve never been on an Instagram account that encourages this type of behavior. And I’ve never liked that toxic environment.”
The actress continues the interview by saying that after this event, she decided to upload a video to talk to her followers. In it, she says: “I will not allow this behavior to my detriment. I am 24 years old, I have been working since I was 17 years old and I have been an adult since I was 18 years old. I do not need to be told who I can love and who I cannot, and I will not tell anyone that either. This is not their place. I don’t know how long it has been.” Cyberbullying I turned modern and amazing. If you don’t like it, stop following me.”
“I defended him, I defended him, I defended him letting me do what I wanted, and it changed some people’s minds,” he told the host. “It got to the point where it was horrible to see someone close to me receive that, and it was never against me, just against them. I think I need to make sure everyone is well informed, so I made a video that has gotten a lot of support, which is great. I think it’s important to remind people online that we’re real.”
This was not the only time Pugh faced criticism. In 2022, she received negative comments about her body after wearing a dress that showed her breasts. She wrote again on her Instagram account: “It is not the first time, and certainly will not be the last, that a woman has heard what is wrong with her body from a crowd of strangers. What is worrying is how vulgar some men are.” She added: “So many of you have wanted so badly to tell me how disappointed you are with my ‘small breasts’ or how embarrassed I should be for being ‘flat chested’. I’ve lived in my body for a long time. I’m very aware of my chest size and I’m not afraid of it.”
Pugh and Braff ended the relationship very discreetly and without giving reasons. “We tried to pull off this breakup without the world knowing, because it’s a relationship and everyone has an opinion about it,” he told the magazine in 2022. Harper’s Bazaar. The breakup was very difficult because of everything they had to face in the relationship. The actress said in Podcast The pain was so severe that he ended up hurting himself. “I was constantly hurting myself. I was cutting things and tearing big pieces off my hands. I never did that again. My body was in complete panic mode. I was hurting myself to take care of myself, which is funny, my body is asking for help. I think it became more and more clear that something was wrong,” he admits.
It took the translator a lot of work to overcome that episode, not only with her followers, but also with her loved ones. “I guess I haven’t revealed that part of my life for a long time, not even to my friends. And of course, you find yourself in a hole or a mess.” However, Pugh admits that he has a partner and feels “pretty good”, although of course he won’t reveal the identity of his partner.
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