Would you call your longtime ex an “old friend”? Austin Butler did it when talking about Vanessa Hudgens

Austin Butlerfresh fresh of victory ai Golden Globes for his masterful performance in the film Elvis, he returns to be talked about also for his long relationship (now over) with the actress Vanessa Hudgens.

The two broke the hearts of millions of fans in 2020 when they decided to end their relationship that had been going on since 2011the year the two met on the set of High School Musicals.

Recently, those fans’ hearts skipped a beat again after Austin Butler recounted an anecdote referring to Vanessa Hudgens as a friend.. Although not naming her, the most attentive listeners of her recognized that story and understood that Austin was referring to her, because the actress had told it before him on a talk show.

Vanessa had said: “It’s crazy because last December we were in the car and we were listening to Christmas songs until an Elvis Presley song started playing. Austin had just dyed his hair black and watching him humming I was like “baby, you gotta play Elvis, I don’t know how but I’m serious”. Then in January he was singing on the piano and I repeated it to him. We didn’t know how to get the rights or how to move but he… had to get the role ».

Vanessa was far-sighted, urging her partner at the time to pursue a dream when probably not even he was aware of her potential and the accolades she would bring home.

At a table with colleagues Colin Farrell, Brendan Fraser, Jeremy Pope, Ke Huy Quan and Adam Sandler, the actor decides to tell how the experience of Elvis has begun and can’t help but talk about the Christmas carols, the Presley song on the radio and the subsequent private piano performance.

However, he forgets a small detail that is not so negligible: Vanessa Hudgens. Or rather, she does not mention her name and replaces it with the word “friend”. Ouch, Worse than being in the friendzone because unrequited, is finding yourself in the friendzone years later because unrecognized as a longtime partner.

Austin revealed: “I was looking at the Christmas lights and an Elvis song came on the radio. A friend of mine and I started humming it until she looked at me and said ‘you have to play Elvis’ ».

Fans on Twitter are divided: there are those who underline the lack of recognition by emphasizing their ingratitude for predicting his career-defining role and who, on the other hand, finds nothing mischievous in having defined Vanessa as a friend indeed, she finds him respectful of their new relationships.

Austin, at the moment, is in fact busy with the supermodel Kaia Gerber and Vanessa makes a steady relationship with the baseball player Cole Tucker.

If the story makes many turn up their noses, there is a funny note that concerns Colin Farrell to make everyone agree: the actor, surprised by the ability of this “mysterious friend” to manifest Austin’s future, ironically asks Butler for his telephone number, unaware that he is asking for the contact of his ex-girlfriend.