During a recent appearance on the Sweet or Savory Podcast, Bretman was asked about his most disappointing celebrity interaction. His answer was blunt: “I don’t like her.”
The influencer said the incident happened around 2017 or 2018, when both he and Hudgens were attending Coachella as guests of Sugar Bear Hair. At the time, Bretman said he had a genuine friendship with the brand’s CEO, built through regular conversations and personal visits.
While heading to pick up festival tickets, Bretman noticed Hudgens chatting with the CEO. He waved to get the CEO’s attention — but says Hudgens reacted as if the greeting was meant for her.
“She literally looks at me and tries to hide,” Bretman recalled.
According to him, Hudgens then took things a step further by pulling her assistant in front of her, using the assistant as a physical barrier as Bretman walked closer to say hello to the CEO.
“That’s what really threw me off,” he said. “I wasn’t even saying hi to you.”
Bretman tried to defuse the awkwardness with humor, joking that he had “always been Team Sharpay,” a nod to Hudgens’s rival character in High School Musical. But beneath the joke was real frustration.
What hurt most, Bretman explained, wasn’t being ignored — it was feeling treated like a threat or a nuisance.
“I know time and place,” he said. “I’ve been around famous people. I know when to ask for a photo and when not to.”
He added that the moment carried a deeper sting because of cultural respect. As a Filipino creator, Bretman said the interaction made him feel dismissed in a space where mutual courtesy should have existed.
“You’re not above me, I’m not under you,” he said. “It was disappointing.”
The story sheds new light on years of fan speculation about tension between the two, especially after Bretman previously criticized Hudgens’s pronunciation of “Palawan” during her 2023 Philippine tourism campaign. Now, he says, it all traces back to one brief but defining moment in the desert — a moment he hasn’t forgotten.
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