Rachel Zegler says it was 'hurtful' to be asked about Ansel Elgort's sexual assault allegations

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Rachel Zegler has spoken out against people who tried to make her answer for allegations of sexual assault leveled against her West Side Story costar Ansel Elgort.In a profile for ELLEthat was published on Tuesday, the 20-year-old actress said it was 'hurtful' for people to ask her about the subject, particularly since the alleged assault would have happened before she even filmed West Side Story.The allegations date from June 2020, when a Twitter user identifying themself as Gabby claimed that she was sexually assaulted by the Tokyo Vice star, 28, when were only 17, though he denied the allegations.

Speaking out: Rachel Zegler, 20, said it was 'hurtful' and 'wildly disappointing' that she was repeatedly asked to speak about sexual assault allegations against her West Side Story costar Ansel Elgort in a new ELLE profile; seen March 27Representatives for Elgort didn't immediately respond to DailyMail.com's request for comment.Zegler said that repeatedly being asked about Elgort reminded her of when she was in a more negative mental state at the height of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, when the accusations were first reported.'I reverted back to this brain space I was in [back in] June of 2020, when the accusation surfaced,' she said. '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 continued.'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.