The O.C. star has confirmed she has been in touch with Oscar winner Rami Malek after revealing he asked her to delete a throwback picture of them that she posted to Instagram.
in 2019, ahead of Rami Malek's Oscar win for his portrayal of Freddie Mercury in Bohemian Rhapsody, Rachel Bilson shared a picture of them as teenagers in New York City.
"Hey @ramimalek where'd you get that gold chain?" she captioned the post at the time, poking fun of the star and his past '90s fashion look.
Bilson also added the hashtags "#tbt" "#oscarworthy" and "#dontforgetthelittlepeople" to her post as well.
However, Malek, who went to high school with Bilson in California, was not best pleased and asked her to remove the snap from social media.
Speaking on the Armchair Expert podcast last month Bilson said: "I was like, I guess I should've found something more flattering.
"But I removed it and I even wrote to him a really nice message: 'I'm so sorry. Go get the Oscar! You're doing amazing.' And I never heard anything back, which is fine. But I was super bummed because he was always so nice and we were good friends."
However, Bilson has now revealed that Malek has been in touch and the pair have "connected".
"Rami and I actually have talked since that came out. He connected with me, and we're all good," she said during an episode of the LadyGang podcast.
"He was so sweet and we're totally fine now and we talked about it and we're good."
She added, "He was so gracious, and I totally understood where he was coming from and he understood me. And I was just so happy we were able to squash it and, like, move on."
