Overview
- Ashley Tisdale’s Jan. 1 essay in The Cut described feeling excluded from a mothers’ friend group and said she ended it with a text calling the dynamic “too high school.”
- Tisdale’s representative told TMZ the piece was not about Hilary Duff, Mandy Moore or Meghan Trainor, even as outlets noted she no longer follows some of them on social media.
- Hilary Duff’s husband Matthew Koma mocked the essay with a satirical Instagram image calling its subject “self-obsessed” and “tone deaf,” while Christopher French shared a quote about choosing not to engage.
- Meghan Trainor posted a TikTok joking about discovering the “mom group drama,” using her track “Still Don’t Care,” marking her first public nod to the situation.
- Us Weekly reported sources say Duff and Moore felt blindsided and reject “mean girl” behavior, as additional media cite unverified insider claims about values or past events that have not been corroborated.