Austin Butler reacted to the backlash he received after he called his ex-girlfriend of nearly nine years, Vanessa Hudgens, just a “friend” during an interview. “Oh, yeah, I learned a lesson with that one. I felt that I was respecting her privacy in a way and not wanting to bring up a ton of things that would cause her to have to talk,” the 32-year-old actor said in a new interview. “I have so much love and care for her. It was in no way trying to erase anything,” he continued, noting that he didn’t want to speak about his personal life in the chat. “I value my own privacy so much, I didn’t wan…
