Florence Pugh again defends her relationship with Zach Braff
Florence Pugh has again spoken out against online trolls for criticising her relationship with Zach Braff.
The 24-year-old actress, who has been dating 45-year-old Braff for a year, uploaded a video to explain how she’d been forced to turn off comments on her page.
“On Monday I posted a photo in honour of Zach’s birthday, and I wrote a birthday message for him,” the Little Women star explained. “Within about eight minutes of the photo being posted I had about 70 people in the comments hurling abuse and being horrid, and 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 have never been an Instagram page that encourages that, I have never been an Instagram page that likes that toxic vibe. I have only been an Instagram page that tries to bring some light and tries to be positive, and tries to make people smile."
She continued speaking in the video, which she called 'my relationship with Instagram': "I will not allow that behaviour on my page, I'm not about that. It makes me upset, it makes me sad that during this time when we really all need to be together, we need to be supporting one another."
"We need to be loving one another, the world is aching and the world is dying and a few of you have decided to bully for no reason."
Pugh addressed the criticism around the couple's age gap: "I'm 24 years old, I have been working since I was 17 years old, I have been earning money since I was 17 years old, I became an adult when I was 18 years old and I started paying taxes when I was 18 years old, I underline this fact, I am 24 years old."
"I do not need you tell me who I should and should not love, and I would never in my life ever tell anyone who they can and cannot love."
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"It is not your place, and really it has nothing to do with you, so if those rules are something that you do not like then please unfollow me because the abuse you throw at him is abuse you're throwing at me and I don't want those followers, and I don't want to have to be protecting my comments every time I post a picture of him."
This is the second time that Pugh has hit back at critics of the age gap between she and Braff. In December 2019, he commented underneath an Instagram picture of her with a crown emoji, prompting one user to write, “You’re 44 years old.”
Pugh replied simply: “and yet he got it👌🏽”.
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