Vanessa Hudgens is still shellshocked from the death Michael Jackson.

The 20-year-old actress has revealed that the late pop superstar and his three young children visited the cast of High School Musical while they were on tour in Las Vegas and Vanessa managed to maintain a friendship with MJ and his family.

“I got a chance to meet him, which was incredible. Kenny Ortega, the director of High School Musical, was working with him on his last tour and he came out to one of the shows when we were on tour with High School Musical in Vegas,” Vanessa tells WENN.

“He came backstage with his kids and was just so sweet and so normal and it’s really sad. I’ll always remember it. It was extremely surreal,” she says. “I admire him so greatly like the rest of the world does but to be able to talk to him and see that he’s a normal human being was crazy. I got to talk to him again on the phone… It was so weird; like, how do you make small talk with Michael Jackson? It was odd but he was so kind and generous.”