“We tried to do this split without the knowledge of the world, because it’s a relationship that everyone has an opinion on,” Pugh told Harper’s Bazaar for their September 2022 issue. something like that would really give us the advantage of not having millions of people telling us how happy they are that we’re not together. So we did it. My throat automatically gets lumpy when I ‘speaks .”
Last year, before their split, Pugh spoke to The Sunday Times about people’s criticism that she was 21 years younger than Braff.
“I think it bothers people that it’s not what they expected,” she said then. “But it’s my life and I don’t do anything to please people or make it a better title or a better story. I want to be a person too!”
She told Harper’s Bazaar that she’s not a fan of the intrusion that can come with being a celebrity.
“Every time I feel like that line has been crossed in my life, whether it’s paparazzi taking private moments or moments that aren’t even real, or gossip channels encouraging members of the public to share private moments of famous people walking down the street, I think that’s incredibly wrong,” she said.