Ashley Tisdale Finds Out Her ‘Best Friend’ & Vanessa Hudgens’ Ex Austin Butler Is Actually Her Cousin

Ashley Tisdale had 1 hilarious astonishment erstwhile she decided to peek into her household tree! The High School Musical prima discovered she is related to 1 of her champion friends, who is besides 1 of her bestie’s exes, connected the latest occurrence of Ancestry’s “2 Lies & A Leaf” series. The champion person was Austin Butler, whom Ashley learned is her 10th cousin, and his ex was Ashley’s HSM co-star Vanessa Hudgens!

Vanessa Hudgens and Austin Butler’s person Ashley Tisdale discovered she is cousins with the actor. (Lumeimages / SplashNews)

“Austin and I ever accidental that we’re similar fraternal twins calved precise acold isolated ’cause he’s overmuch younger and we’ve ever had that connection,” Ashley told her sister, Jennifer Tisdale, during the show. “We’ve ever said we were member and sister! That is insane, I’m virtually going to cry.”

The 37-year-old Hollywood vet went connected to notation to the Elvis star, 27, arsenic her “best friend” earlier adding, “I’m telling you erstwhile we archetypal met, I was similar ‘Oh my God.’ We were similar member and sister from the infinitesimal we met.” She past called Austin, who, upon proceeding the brace were related, exclaimed, “No f**king way!”

Ashley and Austin archetypal met mode backmost successful 2011 erstwhile they played emotion interests connected a HSM spin-off movie called Sharpay’s Fabulous Adventure. Austin and Vanessa began dating that aforesaid twelvemonth and were an point for astir 9 years.

Vanessa Hudgens (left), pictured with Ashley Tisdale, dated Austin Butler for astir 9 years. (SplashNews)

Speaking of Ashley’s quality Sharpay, Ashley precocious sent the net successful a meltdown erstwhile she teamed up with TikTok star Chris Olsen connected for a peculiar rendition of “I Want It All” from the 3rd movie successful the High School Musical franchise.

And conscionable a twelvemonth prior, Ashley teamed up with Vanessa to station TikTok videos of themselves singing to the movie’s biggest deed song, “We’re All successful This Together.” Ashley captioned the cute clips, “If you request to enactment retired portion connected #selfquarantine effort this 😂 hopefully this volition brighten your time a little!” Vanessa, who played Gabriella Montez successful the franchise, followed up by writing, “Well. It’s travel to this. Lol @ashleytisdale possibly I commencement getting into tik tok?”