"No 22-year-old ever thinks they're gonna lose a partner. But I'm getting better," she says. "I have a new relationship, and my girlfriend Keyonna has taught me so much about self-care. My entire life was activism: meetings, actions, phone conferences. Sometimes I feel guilty about shutting off the activist part of my brain and taking time for myself. But she helped me understand that you can't pour water from an empty cup. I have to take care of myself first." Choy’s original article has not been updated since the release of Molland’s statement, though her concern about potentially harmful chemicals in clothing is part of alarger conversationin the fashion industry today.Teen Vogue "I loved being around him,” she says. “We talked about buying a house with lots of land and having children. We were just young kids in love trying to make it." is about to impact a whole new generation of fans with the spinoff, Ashley acknowledges that many of her own fans still associate her with Sharpay, the iconic character she played for years. "They love you for Sharpay and they know me as that," she says. "But they haven’t really gotten to know me as myself because also I haven’t really let them in as much. I’m very private. I’ve had to keep up this perspective people have about me and what they know of."