Rachel Zegler says questions about Ansel Elgort sexual assault allegations were like a ‘gut punch’: ‘I was being held accountable for accusations that had nothing to do with me’

Rachel Zegler discovered it disheartening to be quizzed concerning the allegations towards Ansel Elgort (Image: Paul Wetherell / Getty)

Rachel Zegler has revealed being requested about sexual assault allegations towards co-star Ansel Elgort have been like a ‘intestine punch’. 

The actress, 20, starred alongside Elgort, 28, in West Aspect Story however discovered she was typically requested concerning the accusations towards Elgort in interviews. 

In 2020, a lady when she was simply 17 in 2014, one thing the actor has denied. 

Zegler admitted it was disheartening to get questions on Elgort throughout junkets for the movie, which was supported to be her ‘greatest second’ in her life thus far, though he was additionally current to be requested.

She defined to Elle: ‘It was an actual intestine punch, actually… I used to be sitting there having simply turned 19, on the precipice of what was promised to be the most important second in my life, and was being held accountable [by the public] for accusations that not solely had nothing to do with me however have been made a few scenario that was stated to have occurred [five] years previous to after I had met and labored with this particular person… 

‘[There is] inherent discomfort that comes with that realisation that there are tons of people that assume that you must reply for the actions of an grownup male who can communicate for himself. 

Rachel Zegler was repeatedly requested about Ansel Elgort’s allegations (Image: Paul Wetherell)

Zegler says the questions ‘paid no thoughts’ to the expertise of her and her co-stars (Image: Paul Wetherell)

‘It's so wildly disappointing at each flip, regardless of the way you slice it. Regardless of what number of occasions I’ve tried to justify folks’s concern in relation to me in my mind, however then realising that it comes from a spot of me having to reply for that, and never them truly caring about whether or not or not I used to be okay, was actually hurtful.’

Zegler added that the road of questioning ‘paid no thoughts’ to the experiences she and her co-stars had been by means of in an business wherein they ‘consistently discover [themselves] in shut encounters with males in energy.’

She continued: ‘Within the grand scheme of issues with this girl who has come ahead with these allegations, I can't think about what she needed to undergo. 

Ansel Elgort denied the allegations towards him (Image: Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic)

‘If I’m sitting right here considering that these days have been traumatising for me, I don’t fake to know. I might by no means know. I actually don’t have something to do with this dialog, and I’m wanting ahead to transferring previous it.’

Elgort had denied the accusations in 2020, saying in a press release on Instagram: ‘I used to be distressed to see the social media publish about me which were circulating up to now 24 hours.

‘I can't declare to know [her] emotions however her description of occasions is just not what occurred. I've by no means and would by no means assault anybody.’

Elgort went on to state that ‘what's true’ is that he had a ‘transient authorized and fully consensual relationship’ with the woman in New York again in 2014 when he was 20.