Rachel Zegler is speaking out. In a new interview with Elle magazine for the May 2022 Rising Star Issue, the 20-year-old actress said that it was disheartening to see her West Side Story press tour be overtaken by questions regarding her co-star Ansel Elgort‘s alleged sexual assault. Click inside to read more… In June 2020, the actor was accused of sexually assaulting a 17-year-old girl in 2014.
At the time, Ansel addressed the allegations by saying he has “never and would never assault anyone” and referred to the relationship he had with the accuser as “brief, legal and entirely consensual.” Elle writer Adrienne Gaffney noted that the female cast of West Side Story were often asked to respond to the allegations, with Rachel replying that she didn’t understand why she was on the receiving end of those questions “even though the person in question was present.” “It was a real gut punch, honestly,” Rachel said. “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.
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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