Ansel Elgort Wants to Be 'Free to Fall in Love with People' Other Than His Girlfriend
Ansel Elgort is opening up about his non-traditional view on love and wanting to have the freedom to fall in love with more women than just his girlfriend.
The 25-year-old The Goldfinch actor doesn’t want to have a sexual relationship with other women, but he still wants to fall in love.
Ansel has been dating ballerina Violetta Komyshan since they met in high school back in 2012.
“It doesn’t need to be sexual. I could be done sexually with my girlfriend,” Ansel said in a new interview with The Times. “I think we’ve been pretty clear that I want to feel free to fall in love with people and that [option] should be open, but sexually it can be closed off.”
“I’m in love with a bunch of my male friends who I’m not interested in having sex with, so why can’t I put the desire to have sex with women aside and let myself have love with women? I love [Divergent and The Fault in Our Stars co-star] Shailene Woodley and we never had anything sexual and that was great. There will probably be some sort of chemical thing at some point that you can’t help, but you just have to be disciplined and not be a f—— … We’re primitive beings,” Ansel added.
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See photos of Ansel Elgort and Violetta Komyshan together in the gallery…