Florence PughandZach Braffaimed to keep their breakup private.
TheDon’t Worry Darlingactress, 26, revealed in her cover story forHarper’s BAZAAR’s September 2022 issuethat she and Braff, 47, quietly went their separate ways, hoping to keep the split under wraps to avoid commentary from strangers online.
“We’ve been trying to do this separation without the world knowing, because it’s been a relationship that everybody has an opinion on,” said Pugh. “We just felt something like this would really do us the benefit of not having millions of people telling us how happy they are that we’re not together. So we’ve done that.”
“I automatically get a lumpy throat when I talk about it,” she added.
Pugh also toldHarper’s BAZAARshe isn’t on board with attention on her personal life as a celebrity.
“Whenever I feel like thatline has been crossed in my life, whether it’s paparazzi taking private moments or moments that aren’t even real, or gossip channels that encourage members of the public to share private moments of famous people walking down the street, I think it’s incredibly wrong,” she said.
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Zach Braff; Florence Pugh.Rich Fury/Getty Images; Kevin Mazur/Getty Images
Florence Pugh; Zach Braff.Frazer Harrison/Getty / John Shearer/Getty
The pair was first spotted together in April 2019. This past April, Pughcelebrated Braff’s birthday, captioning a series of photos on Instagram, “Happy Birthday Zachary.”
Prior to that, in January, theScrubsalum celebrated Pugh’s birthday with asocial-media tribute.
“Happy birthday to this beautiful human being. I am so lucky to know you. And the world is so lucky they get to witness your incredible talent,” Braff wrote on his Instagram Story alongside a photo of Pugh resting at the edge of a swimming pool.
source: people.com
