Florence Pugh Defends Relationship With Zach Braff: 'People Have No Right to Educate Me on My Private Life'

Florence Pugh is getting candid about dating Zach Braff.

The 24-year-old Little Women star opened up about dating the 45-year-old Scrubs actor, which has been met with some backlash, in Elle UK‘s June 2020 issue, out on Thursday (May 7).

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“I have the right to hang out and be with and go out with anyone I want to. I’ve always found this part of what people do really bizarre. I’m an actor because I like acting and I don’t mind people watching my stuff, but people have no right to educate me on my private life,” she said of their relationship.

“I know that part of being in the spotlight is that people might invade your privacy and have opinions on it, but it’s bizarre that normal folk are allowed to display such hate and opinions on a part of my life that I’m not putting out there. It’s a strange side of fame that you’re allowed to be torn apart by thousands of people even though you didn’t put that piece of you out there. My point to all this is that isn’t it odd that a stranger can totally tear apart someone’s relationship and it’s allowed?”

For more from Florence, head to elle.com/uk.