Zach Braff, 49, debuts new romance with mystery young woman – 2 years after split from Florence Pugh, 28

Zach Braff was spotted getting cozy with a mystery woman after dinner at Sushi Park in West Hollywood, two years after his split from actress Florence Pugh.

On Tuesday night, the 49-year-old actor looked happily in love as he wrapped his arms around a beautiful brunette, who looked at least a decade or two younger than him.

As they left the celebrity hotspot, Braff wrapped his arms around his new love interest and planted a sweet kiss on her neck.

The PDA made his date smile as she walked a few steps ahead of him after dining at the popular sushi spot, tucked away on the second floor of a nondescript strip mall.

For their night out, she wore a chic black long sleeve and ripped light wash jeans.

Braff’s new wife wore a sleek, dark brown bob, which hovered just above her shoulders, and minimal makeup.

Meanwhile, Braff cut a casual figure in a light gray jacket, plain T-shirt and striped trousers.

DailyMail.com has reached out to Braff’s reps for comment on his current relationship status.

Since his split from Pugh after three years of dating, the artist has kept his love life out of the spotlight.

In December 2023, he spoke highly of his ex when he appeared on SiriusXM’s The Jess Cagle Show.

During the interview, he said that he and Pugh still “love each other” despite only being “friends” now.

He also admitted that they are still in regular contact, and that she had even talked to him earlier that morning.

“I was on the Today Show this morning and she said she wanted to see pictures of my outfit to give her approval, so we love each other a lot,” Braff continued.

He also made it clear that there were no hard feelings between the two as he talked about the Oscar nominee’s prodigious talents.

“Listen, I think it’s pretty clear around the world that I’m not biased when I say she’s one of the best actresses working today,” he enthused.

“I think anyone who watches A Good Person will see that she is just extraordinary, and I feel so lucky that I was able to have her as my leading lady.”

Before their relationship ended, Florence had signed on to star in A Good Person, which Zach directed but did not star in.

The drama stars Pugh as Allison, an aspiring musician who recently became engaged.

But their future is destroyed after she crashes her car after a party, killing her future brother-in-law and sister-in-law.

A year later, while addicted to painkillers and struggling with severe depression, Allison attends an AA meeting where she unexpectedly meets the father of her former fiancé Daniel (Morgan Freeman).

Through him, she meets the orphaned daughter of the couple she killed, but her attempts to make amends are threatened by the girl’s anger at her and Daniel’s own struggles with addiction.

Zach and Florence were first introduced on the set of a short film he was making, but it wasn’t until April 2019 that they were linked together when they were spotted holding hands.

However, the couple remained silent and did not confirm the relationship until December of that year.

A Good Person was filmed in 2021, when the couple was still together, and they were apparently together at least until April 2022, when she wished him a happy 47th birthday.

During their relationship, the couple — and especially Florence — experienced a barrage of abuse on social media due to their 21-year age difference, though the Little Drummer Girl actress defended her right to choose to be with Zach.

“I have the right to hang out and hang out with whoever I want and date,” she claimed during a 2020 interview with Elle UK. ‘I’ve always found this part of what people do bizarre.

Pugh continued, “I know part of being in the spotlight is that people can invade your privacy and have opinions about it, but it’s bizarre that normal people are allowed to show such hatred and opinions about a part of my life that I am too. don’t go out there.’

In September, Pugh, who is now dating Peaky Blinders star Finn Cole, explained that she “had to be public” about their relationship in the past due to relentless bullying over their age difference.

“Me and Zach’s relationship was actually pretty private until it got ugly and I could see the toll it was taking on him, on us, and on our families. And then I spoke out,” she told Vogue.

“I think I want to protect everyone I’m with. It sucks knowing people are saying the worst things I’ve ever read about someone I love.

‘So that was necessary. I had to talk about it. I think any relationship that is in this spotlight will be put under strain.”

Florence confirmed this in an interview with Harper’s Bazaar in August 2022 that the couple had gone their separate ways.

She told the magazine at the time: “We tried to make this divorce without the world knowing because it was a relationship that everyone has an opinion about.

“We just felt like something like this would really give us the advantage if millions of people weren’t telling us how happy they are that we’re not together. So that’s what we did.’