Rachel Zegler Didn’t Salvage Why She ‘Needed to Acknowledge’ for Ansel Elgort’s Abuse Allegations

Whereas “West Side Yarn” has launched the profession of Rachel Zegler, the actress acknowledged that the click tour for the Oscar-winning movie became once a “gut punch” on legend of the full questions she obtained about co-giant title Ansel Elgort’s sexual assault allegations.

In an interview with Elle Magazine, Zegler discussed the horror that she felt in June 2020 when experiences first surfaced that Elgort had been accused of raping a 17-one year-dilapidated girl in 2014 and he or she started to gain questions from journalists and on social media about him, whom she shared the quilt with as Maria and Tony in Steven Spielberg’s salvage on the standard Broadway musical.

“I became once sitting there, having factual turned 19, on the precipice of what became once promised to be the ideal moment in my life, and became once being held responsible [by the public] for accusations that no longer most efficient had nothing to enact with me nonetheless were made about a location that became once acknowledged to fill befell [five] years ahead of after I had met and labored with this particular person,” Zegler acknowledged. “And not utilizing a notion to the truth that I became once also 17 after I met this particular person, 17 after I labored with them, 17 and 18 after I had to enact fancy scenes.”

“[There is] inherent discomfort that includes that realization that there are a great deal of folks that mediate that you simply might possibly possibly answer to for the actions of an grownup male who can keep in touch for himself,” she persisted.

Elgort has denied all wrongdoing and became once no longer contemporary at this one year’s Oscars, where “West Side Yarn” became once nominated for Only Describe and won Only Supporting Actress for Ariana DeBose’s performance as Anita. He did appear on the movie’s premiere in Fresh York abet in November.

Zegler advised Elle that she’s kept standpoint by approach of Elgort’s allegations, announcing that she expresses sympathy for the actor’s accuser and acknowledges that the trauma she experienced became once some distance worse than her fill.

“If I’m sitting right here taking into consideration that those days were traumatizing for me, I don’t pretend to know. I would possibly well never know,” Zegler acknowledged. “I in point of fact don’t fill anything else to enact with this conversation, and I’m having a gaze ahead to transferring past it.”

Zegler will appear later this one year in Warner Bros./DC’s “Shazam: Fury of the Gods” and is dwelling to play Snow White in an upcoming Disney remake of “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.”