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Vanessa Hudgens 'grateful' for Austin Butler breakup as it 'catapulted' her to husband Cole Tucker: 'You pushed me to the right person!'


As painful as her break-up from Butler was in the moment, she is now able to reframe the split as a positive given she found her forever person shortly thereafter.

'Also the tenacity I have I think is like from starting in my career at such an early age and dealing with so much rejection that like, you really have to build a very strong backbone in order to keep doing it when everyone's telling you no. During a recent interview with Esquire, however, Butler insisted his decision not to call the High School Musical actress by name actually came from a place of love. Last year, the Golden Globe winner was slammed for referring to his former partner as just a pal while speaking about his journey to portraying the late King of Rock and Roll in Baz Luhrmann's musical biopic, Elvis.

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