Vanessa Hudgens, Austin Butler Split After Nearly 9 Years Together

Vanessa and Austin are authoritatively separated, and Vanessa has been educating those near her regarding their separation," the insider uncovers.

The pair, who started dating in September 2011, started theory that they had separated after it seemed Butler, 28, and Hudgens, 31, didn't spend the special seasons together. The Knight Before Christmas star posted photographs of herself flying solo on December 31, wearing a princess-motivated dark outfit and tiara. Days sooner, Hudgens archived a winter escape in Vals, Switzerland, however Butler didn't show up in any of her photographs

The High School Musical star praised her birthday on December 13 when her more youthful sister, Stella Hudgens, astounded her on the arrangement of recording Netflix's The Princess Switch: Switched Again. A couple of hours after the fact, Hudgens posted a video of the team moving "a couple of gins in and a birthday later," yet Butler was recognizably missing from the celebrations. 

The last time Hudgens shared a photograph of the Once Upon a Time in Hollywood on-screen character on Instagram was on October 31. "Upbeat Halloween from my family to yours," she inscribed an image of the team wearing Gothic ensembles nearby the previous couple's pooch, Darla. 

Head servant, in the interim, hasn't posted an image with Hudgens since July, when he shared a preview of the couple on Instagram at the motion picture debut for his film Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.