Bella Thorne Recalls “Hashing It Out” With Zendaya After Being Pitted Against Each Other In Disney Years: “It Got Pretty Bad”

With her child star days behind her, Bella Thorne has found perspective on her behind-the-scenes friendship with Zendaya.

The Disney Channel alum recently recalled being pitted against each other while making their 2010-’13 series Shake It Up, during which they “escaped to another set” to work out their differences.

“It got pretty bad,” she recalled on the Call Her Daddy podcast. “And then you have your your families and you have the rest of the set and everything, and I think it got to a point where when we were on our Good Luck Charlie crossover, we escaped to another set in the middle of a live taping, which is really ballsy, badass and rebellious. Very rebellious.”

Thorne continued, “‘Escaped’ is a funny word. We didn’t escape, but we snuck out. We knew that we had three scenes until we were up again. And we were just like, ‘Let’s just go talk.’ And we did.”

Noting they “stayed a little too long,” Thorne said she and Zendaya “got into it, hashed it out, and it was so beautiful. It was my first experience woman to woman, girl to girl, where you actually can speak and you can both be heard about the different things you’ve been experiencing and what people are saying and how they’re trying to do this to you, and and you can walk out of there seeing each other.”

The 2011 Good Luck Charlie episode “Charlie Shakes It Up” features the cast visiting the Windy City and running into CeCe (Thorne) and Rocky (Zendaya) on the set of Shake It Up, Chicago.