Vanessa Hudgens stuns fans by walking past ex Austin Butler at Oscars after-party

Fans have shared their mixed reactions to Vanessa Hudgens, who quickly walked past her ex Austin Butler at an Oscars after-party.

While they didn’t go to the event together, Hudgens and Butler, who had been together for almost a decade, attended vanity fair‘s Oscar Party in Beverly Hills following the 95th Academy Awards. Hudgens also served as a co-host on Sunday Countdown to the Oscars Event on ABC where co-host Ashley Graham was the one interviewing Butler.

In a video received from US Weekly, Hudgens was seen looking down and walking past her ex-boyfriend as he waved to fans who were outside the after-party. The clip that was shared Twitteralso showed the elvis Star smiled and blew fans a kiss while standing next to Sharon Stone.

Taking to social media, fans shared their shocked reactions to the exes’ interaction and praised Hudgens for choosing to just walk past Butler.

“I never thought I would read this or see these words or this picture,” one person responded to a tweet about the couple. “Wtf happened.”

“This is my Everything everywhere at once‘ another joked, referring to the sci-fi film that took home seven Oscars last night.

A third wrote of Hudgens: “Queen Behavior.”

However, some fans expressed that the Disney Channel graduate may not have snubbed her ex in the video and that it’s no surprise they passed each other.

“She could have just stopped to say hello or just stopped by when the photo was taken,” one wrote. “People in the comments are just making things up.”

“They’re both actors, of course they’ll be there,” wrote another, while a third added, “She literally just walks past him why are people freaking out.”

Both actors have been in new relationships as Hudgens since their split in January 2020 announced their engagement to baseball player Cole Tucker last month.

Butler is currently dating Kaia Gerber, who attended the vanity fair Party with him on Sunday. She didn’t attend the actual Oscars, however, as Butler Graham revealed in an interview that he wanted his “best friend” and “agent” at the event because he “owes.” [his] career for him”.

At Sunday’s Oscars, Butler was nominated but missed out on the best actor award for his performance in Baz Luhrmann’s biopic elvis After his nomination in January, he said in The Hollywood reporterActors’ round table that a “friend” had encouraged him to audition for the role.

Afterward, fans quickly discovered that the girlfriend Butler was referring to was actually Hudgens, who previously did an interview about telling Butler about his resemblance to Presley. In conversation with The Los Angeles TimesButler went straight to the record and confirmed his story was about The princess counter star before praising their previous relationship.

“I was dating my partner at the time,” he said, confirming his partner was Hudgens, adding, “That’s true. We were together for so long and she had that kind of psychic moment and I really owe her a lot for believing in me.”

During his interview with THRhe recounted how his colleague, whom he did not refer to as Hudgens, first urged him to one day play Elvis Presely in a film.

“I was going to see the Christmas lights with a friend and there was an Elvis Christmas carol on the radio and I was singing along and my friend looked at me and said, ‘You have to play Elvis.’ I said, ‘Oh, that’s so far fetched,'” he explained. “Then my agent called and said, ‘So Baz Luhrmann is doing an Elvis movie…’ The hair just stood up on my arms. It made me say, ‘Okay. It’s Everest. I don’t know if I’m good enough. But I have to give everything.’”