Vanessa Hudgens once recounted meeting Cole Tucker for the first time: "I was like, oh, he's the baseball player"

In an interview with Jay Shetty last year, Vanessa Hudgens opened up about her first meeting with baseball star Cole Tucker.

Hudgens had enrolled herself in a meditation class led by Shetty and hosted by her friend and former co-star Joe Jonas. A flurry of notifications apparently flooded in from her friends, confirming their attendance at the sessions, including one from Tucker.

Determined to find out who Tucker was, Vanessa scrolled through Instagram.

"I found him on Instagram and then I was like, oh, he's the baseball player," she recalled.

Vanessa Hudgens and Cole Tucker's love story

Cole Tucker and Venessa Hudgens

Vanessa Hudgens, a former "High School Musical" star, and Cole Tucker, a former Pittsburgh Pirates player, sparked dating rumors in 2020, when they were seen walking hand in hand in Los Angeles.

Hudgens later acknowledged she was the one who initiated contact when they first spoke during a Zoom meditation group call.

Rumors of their engagement circulated in November 2022, marked by a romantic trip to Paris before Vanessa Hudgens displayed her engagement ring for the first time.