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The 30-year-old actress stopped by the  Awards Chatter  podcast where she discussed her relationship with Zac Efron, which began just as both of their careers were taking off. The  Bad Boys for Life  star admits that she's "grateful" for what they had because it helped ground her during a tumultuous period in her life. "It started off really organically," she said. "I could not have been more grateful to have that relationship at the time." The pair reportedly began dating a year after the first  High School Musical  film was released. It was a massive hit, prompting Disney to create two more. Overnight, the pair became teen idols. "It was this massive phenomenon and [all] eyes were on me. And it's just a really weird foreign thing to go through, and by being in a relationship, it kind of kept me stabilized and grounded, and I had someone to lean on who was going through it as well." However, Hudgens readily admits that their fo...