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Sharpay Evans will never be left out of the pack, however Ashley Tisdale She claims it was. In an essay titled “Breakup from my mom’s toxic group. I thought I had found my village. Instead, I was in high school,” the 40-year-old Disney Channel alumna wrote about her experience with an anonymous group of women, who netizens speculated included famous friends. Hilary Duff, Mandy Moore and Meghan Trainor.
The women used to go out on a few occasions, as seen in photos from the past, and Ashley no longer follows Hilary or Mandy; Therefore, social media sleuths tried to dig deeper into the narrative. So, what did Ashley say about the uproar her article caused?
Former Disney Channel star Christy Carlson Romano Meghan joined in on the gossip, too. the Cadet Kelly The star shared a post on TikTok discussing the dynamic of mom groups. Christie said, in part: “Ultimately, if you can make time for the people who matter to you, they should give back to you as much as you give back. And if that dynamic changes, just find another group of friends. It’s very simple. It’s not supposed to be dramatic. … Sometimes, it gets a little crazy, and then you write an essay about it.”
As for Meghan, the “Dear Future Husband” artist shared a video on TikTok of her typing on a computer with the caption: “I’m detecting the obvious collective mommy drama” embedded in the clip.
Here’s what we know about the “moms group” Ashley was a part of.
What did Ashley Tisdale write about her “toxic mom group”?
In the article published by pieces, Ashley described the group’s “ugly mean girl behavior” and her feelings of exclusion that left her “hurt, exhausted, and neglected.”
“I realized that there were group text threads that did not include everyone, which led to groups forming within the larger group.” Suite Life of Zack and Cody The star wrote. “And after the third or fourth time I saw social media photos of everyone else in a hangout that I wasn’t invited to, I felt like I wasn’t part of the group at all.”
Ashley then recalled that she “sat alone one night after getting it [her] My daughter to bed…feeling completely lost as to what [she] She was making the “mistake of being left out” of her group full of enemies. While she “never considered mothers to be bad people [except for] Maybe one [of them]”, I cut ties with them after the dynamic “stopped being healthy and positive.”
“This is too high school for me, and I don’t want to be involved in it anymore,” Ashley concluded.
Who’s in the “Toxic Mom Group”?
Ashley never mentioned any names in her “Toxic Mom Group” post, although netizens speculated they included Hilary, Mandy, Megan and more women seen in the previous photos.
A rep for Ashley denied this Pieces The article was always about Mandy, Hilary or Meghan. As he pointed out TMZ“There is no truth to what the online ‘sleuths’ think they have discovered,” the actor insisted. The outlet also noted that the rep said Ashley pulled “from her own experience of being left out of social commentary,” which reveals “a very real issue in mom circles.”
But Hillary’s husband Matthew KomaHe may have fanned the flames when he ostensibly mocked the title of Ashley’s article. Through his Instagram Stories, Matthew edited a photo of himself where Ashley was, and rewrote the caption to read: “When you’re the deaf, self-obsessed person on Earth, other moms tend to shift the focus to their actual little ones. A mom’s set tells it all through a dad’s eyes.” He wrote across the story: “Read my interview with @TheCut.”
Did anyone else react to the Toxic Mom Group article?
Yes, Hillary was asked about Ashley’s article during a February 2026 interview Los Angeles Times.
“This is nothing new to me,” the “mature” singer told the publication. “I’ve had this since I was about 15 and I started being followed by paparazzi. It all started being documented, and everyone knows my life and all the players in it. So the stories that get news attention — this is not what happens to a normal person who maybe becomes an actor as an adult.”
“I saw something like, ‘None of the moms at school really like her and neither do the teachers,'” Hilary continued, “and I said, ‘First of all… by the way, the women at school are beautiful and I’m obsessed with all of them.'”
