sexual abuse allegations against costar Ansel Elgort. “It was a real gut punch, honestly,” Zegler, 20 told Elle magazine of constantly being asked about the Elgort’s controversy. “I reverted back to this brain space I was in [back in] June of 2020, when the accusation surfaced.
We were in the middle of the first wave of lockdown, and there was nothing to do but doom-scroll.”On June 19, 2020, Elgort, 28, was accused of sexually assaulting a 17-year-old girl in 2014.
Elgort responded to the allegations the next day. Though he did not deny having a physical relationship with Gabby, he claimed it was “legal and entirely consensual.”However, the claims surfaced at the height of the pandemic — and before the much-hyped movie musical was released.
The Steven Spielberg remake of the classic musical hit theaters in December 2021 after months of delays. Elgort was often grouped with his other cast mates during interviews in a possible attempt to shift light on the allegations away from him, Elle reported in the lengthy Zegler profile featured in their May issue.
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