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Rachel Zegler Criticizes Being Asked About Ansel Elgort's Sexual Assault Allegation: 'It Was a Gut Punch'

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Rachel Zegler is getting real about how it felt to be asked about her  co-star, Ansel Elgort's allegations of sexual assault.

In the latest issue of , in which Zegler is the cover star, the actress called being asked about the allegations «a gut punch.»“It was a real gut punch, honestly,” Zegler said of being asked to answer for her male coworker.

Zegler, Ariana DeBose, and Rita Moreno were questioned about the allegation during a roundtable with . In 2020, a woman accused Elgort — who plays Zegler's love interest in the film -- in a since-deleted post, of sexually assaulting her in 2014, when she was reportedly 17 years old, and he was 20.“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. Those days were some of the worst mental health days I’ve ever had," she said. «I was sitting there having just turned 19, on the precipice of what was promised to be the biggest moment in my life, and was being held accountable [by the public] for accusations that not only had nothing to do with me but were made about a situation that was said to have occurred [five] years prior to when I had met and worked with this person.

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