Florence Pugh is no longer willing to talk about her romantic relationships.

During an appearance on “The Louis Theroux Podcast” on Monday, the “Don’t Worry Darling” actress cited her three-year relationship with Zach Braff as the reason she now keeps certain topics off-limits to the public.

Pugh said there was an “incredible amount of abuse in my relationship just because there was an age difference.”

Pugh, now 29, and Braff, 50, have a 21-year age difference.

“With relationships and romance in this world, it doesn’t matter how much you talk or how little you talk about it: people don’t care. They want a story,” Pugh explained.

“They kind of want a reality show. So it doesn’t matter how much you say you love someone or how much they make you happy. If they don’t like it and it doesn’t fit the image they want of you, they don’t care. And I think that hurts me.”

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Pugh said she “stood up for him and I stood up for letting me do whatever I wanted to do.”

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The “Dune 2” actor said the online abuse “got to the point where it was really horrible to see someone you’re with getting that” kind of hate.

“And it was never against me, it was just against him,” he said. “And I think I just needed to check everyone out, so I made a video. And it got a lot of love and a lot of people supported me, which was great. And I think people, online, need to be reminded that we’re real.”

Pugh added that she “stood up for him and I stood up for letting me do whatever I wanted to do.”

Despite making the video, he shared that “the more you put out there, the more you allow people to comment on it.”

She continued: “And if they don’t know, they can’t really comment on it. That being said, I think I will always stand up for the people I love. “I will always defend them.”

Pugh has said in the past that she only went public with her relationship with Braff because people got “nasty.”

“I had to go public in the past because people were harassing me and my partner,” Pugh said in an interview with British Vogue in 2024. “Zach’s relationship with me was actually quite private until it became ugly, and I could see the toll it was taking on him, us, and our families. And that’s when I spoke up.”

The “Midsommar” star previously speculated about why certain people didn’t approve of her with the “Garden State” director, since the two “weren’t in anyone’s face,” really.

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“What happened is that people didn’t like it,” he said. “They imagined me with someone younger and someone from blockbusters. I think relationships between young people in Hollywood go sour very easily because of the increase in gossip sites.”