How maddie ziegler and stranger things' millie bobby brown became friends

Just call them the teenage dream team! Maddie Ziegler is opening up about her close friendship with _Stranger Things‘ _Millie Bobby Brown. “She was a fan of the show, _Dance Moms_, and she

came to one of the _So You Think You Can Dance_ tapings: I get back to my dressing room after, and I hadn’t watched her show yet, so she was like fangirling, which is so funny!” Ziegler,

whose new memoir _The Maddie Diaries_ is out now, tells PEOPLE. She continues, “And we actually connected. I was like, ‘I know we’ll be friends.’ And then she was talking about her show. I

didn’t really know what she was talking about. And then when I watched _Stranger_ _Things_ in a day and a half — it was so good! I’m so excited for season 2. She’s so good. And then I just

reached out, like, ‘Your show’s amazing.’ Then we just kept talking and became best friends.” * _For more on Maddie Ziegler, pick up the new issue of PEOPLE, on newsstands Friday_ Indeed,

the 14-year-old _Dance Moms _alum — who left the show last year and has since gone on tour with Sia and sat on the judges’ panel of _So You Think You Can Dance: The Next Generation _with

Jason Derulo and Paula Abdul_ —_ and Brown, 13, have documented their friendship on social media, posting a snap of themselves enjoying Butterbeer at the Wizarding World of Harry Potter last

year. Ziegler says they bonded over growing up in showbiz. “We talk about that all the time. We love how we’re so alike in so many ways,” she says. “We’re two people that are so happy that

we found each other because we could relate to each other, and we’re not brats in this industry and can just enjoy time together. We relate in so many ways being in the industry!” FROM

COINAGE:THE TRUE COST OF FAMOUS TV APARTMENTS Brown, who won a Screen Actors Guild Award earlier this year for her performance in _Stranger Things_, previously opened up about her friendship

with Ziegler on the _Ellen DeGeneres Show._ She told the daytime host, “We’re really good friends and we text each other every day.” _Stranger Things _season 1 is streaming on Netflix now,

and season 2 premieres Oct. 31.