{"id":1446791,"date":"2022-04-19T20:14:38","date_gmt":"2022-04-20T00:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1446791"},"modified":"2022-04-19T20:14:56","modified_gmt":"2022-04-20T00:14:56","slug":"west-side-story-star-asks-why-she-was-being-held-accountable-for-sexual-assault-claim-against-co-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/west-side-story-star-asks-why-she-was-being-held-accountable-for-sexual-assault-claim-against-co-star\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018West Side Story\u2019 Star Asks Why She Was \u2018Being Held Accountable\u2019 For Sexual Assault Claim Against Co-Star"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwest-side-story-star-asks-why-she-was-being-held-accountable-for-sexual-assault-claim-against-co-star%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1446791&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/04\/Rachel-Zelger-2-2.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>\u201cWest Side Story\u201d star Rachel Zegler asked why she was \u201cbeing held accountable\u201d and expected to \u201canswer\u201d for a sexual assault accusation that surfaced against her co-star, Ansel Elgort, in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>During the 20-year-old actress\u2019 interview with Elle Magazine for the May 2022 issue, the \u201cSnow White\u201d star said it was like a \u201cgut punch,\u201d adding that it didn\u2019t make sense to her to be asked about the allegations against Elgort \u201ceven though the person in question was present,\u201d the outlet recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elle.com\/culture\/celebrities\/a39727526\/rachel-zegler-interview-may-2022\/\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In June 2020, Zegler\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/baby-driver-actor-ansel-elgort-denies-sexually-assaulting-a-17-year-old-girl-in-2014\">co-star denied sexually assaulting<\/a> the woman in 2014, when she was reportedly 17 years old, and Elgort was 20, in a since-deleted Instagram post.<\/p>\n<p>At the time, Elgort said that he and the woman \u201chad a brief, legal, and entirely consensual relationship\u201d and insisted that he had \u201cnever and would never assault anyone.\u201d In the state of New York, the age of consent is 17.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CciD2C-u-hm\/?utm_source=ig_embed&#038;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\"><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIt was a real gut punch, honestly,\u201d Zegler told Elle magazine. \u201cI 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\u2019ve ever had.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI 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,\u201d she added. \u201cWith no thought to the fact that I was also 17 when I met this person, 17 when I worked with them, 17 and 18 when I had to do love scenes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[There is] inherent discomfort that comes with that realization that there are tons of people who think that you have to answer for the actions of an adult male who can speak for himself,\u201d Zegler continued. \u201cIt is so wildly disappointing at every turn, no matter how you slice it. No matter how many times I\u2019ve tried to justify people\u2019s concern when it comes to me in my brain, but then realizing that it comes from a place of me having to answer for that, and not them actually caring about whether or not I was okay, was really hurtful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWest Side Story\u201d was up for seven nominations at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/wanda-sykes-opens-oscars-announcing-to-people-in-florida-we-are-going-to-have-a-gay-night\">94th Academy Awards<\/a> show in 2022, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Cinematography. In the end, actress Ariana DeBose took home the Best Supporting Actress Award, as the first openly queer woman of color to win an Academy Award, for her role as Anita.<\/p>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies for breaking news, investigative reporting, sports, podcasts, in-depth analysis, books, and entertainment for a reason: because we believe in what we do. We believe in our country, in the value of truth and the freedom to speak it, and in the right to challenge tyranny wherever we see it. Believe the same? Become a member now and join our mission.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWest Side Story\u201d star Rachel Zegler asked why she was \u201cbeing held accountable\u201d and expected to \u201canswer\u201d for a sexual assault accusation that surfaced against her co-star, Ansel Elgort, in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":219,"featured_media":1446803,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1446791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1446791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/219"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1446791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1446791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1446803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1446791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1446791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1446791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}