Elvis star Austin Butler was first romantically linked to Kaia Gerber in late 2021, but they’ve gotten a lot of attention since Butler’s award-winning performance in the rock star’s biopic increased his visibility.
Part of people’s interest is the couple’s previous amours. Gerber dated Euphoria star Jacob Elordi for a year before they split in September 2020; she’s also been linked to Pete Davidson. Her relationship with Elordi ended about a month before she was connected to Butler. The 22-year-old has a busy life as an actress and model, taking after her mother, supermodel Cindy Crawford, which has made certain relationships difficult.
In an interview about her romantic past with Vogue, Gerber said, “I found myself in situations where I was, like, I actually don’t have the life experience that I need to handle this. You know, I was doing fashion month, but I was so young I had kissed, like, only one person. I had never had a high school sweetheart or anything.”
She added that she ended up dating “older people,” because that’s who she was surrounded by in the world of fashion. Davidson was 26 when he dated 18-year-old Gerber in 2020.
“I got put in situations where one day I’d wake up and be like, How did I get here? I have no idea what I’m doing, and I need help,” she explained. “And being able to ask for that help was amazing. That’s what real growing up means, not being afraid to ask.”
Butler was in a relationship with ex-girlfriend Vanessa Hudgens for nine years, and they were officially reported as being over in January 2020. The 32-year-old actor has said Hudgens had a big impact on his career, encouraging him to go for the Elvis Presley role—though the distance while he was filming was apparently a major hinder in their relationship. The two’s romance ended while he was working on the project.
“I was actually driving up through Griffith Park and Elvis’s ‘Blue Christmas’ came on,” the 31-year-old actor told Vogue in April 2022. “I was singing along with it when my friend had kind of an epiphany: ‘You need to play Elvis.’”
