Florence Pugh Reflects on Zach Braff Romance, Reveals She’s Dating Someone New…see more

Pugh found it “necessary” to defend Braff at the time. “I needed to talk about it,” she explained. “I think any relationship in this limelight is going to be stressed.”

Pugh and Braff — who have a 21-year age difference — started dating in 2019 after working together on the show film In the Time It Takes to Get There.

After a birthday tribute to Braff resulted in online hate, “I’ve been wrestling with the idea for the past few days about whether I should do this video and then finally last night I thought, for my own peace of mind, I should,” she said in an April 2020 Instagram video, before reminding her followers that “being hateful is not trendy.”

“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,” she continued.

“I do not need you to tell me who I should and should not love, and I would never in my life ever, ever tell someone who they can and cannot love. It is not your place.

And really it has nothing to do with you … The abuse that you throw at him is abuse that you throw at me.”