Ashley Tisdale’s ‘toxic mum group’ controversy has reached new heights, with Hilary Duff’s husband posting an inflammatory response to the ongoing drama.
Tisdale, now Ashley French following her marriage to husband Christopher, recently penned an essay for The Cut, in which she alleges a group of her former friends ‘froze her out’ overtime.
It is public knowledge Tisdale used to spend time with a group of fellow celebrity mums that included Duff, as well as Meghan Trainor and Mandy Moore.
While a representative for Tisdale was quick to dispel online speculation she’d been referring to the A-listers in her article, the response from Duff’s husband, Matthew Koma, appears to all but confirm the rumours.
In a pointed Instagram story, Koma reposted a doctored replica of Tisdale’s photoshoot for The Cut, editing his face onto the High School Musical star’s body.
He also altered the original caption to read, “When you’re the most self-obsessed, tone-deaf person on earth, other moms tend to shift their focus to their actual toddlers.”
The overt dig from Koma comes after Tisdale aired her ex-friend group’s dirty laundry via her essay for The Cut, and in a separate Substack post weeks prior.
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The very public callout now appears to have reached its target audience, although Duff, Trainor and Moore are yet to directly respond.
The group had been active on social media in the past, with Trainor captioning one 2022 Instagram post “I have mom friends and I love them.”
Tisdale noted that following the birth of her first daughter, she began craving connection with other mothers. Initially, she believed she had finally fostered the very connection she sought.
But ultimately, it was not to be.
“I thought I found my village. Instead, I was back in high school,” she said.
She began to notice she was being left out of various group activities – but could not escape the Instagram stories and posts that showed her exactly what she was missing.
After one ill-fated dinner party where she was purposely seated away from the other women, the reality of the situation finally began to sink in.
“I was starting to feel frozen out of the group, noticing every way that they seemed to exclude me,” Tisdale wrote.
Tisdale alleged the group had “a pattern of leaving someone out” – and that somehow, at some point, for some reason; that someone had become her.
She went on to call out the group for their behaviour via text, saying “‘This is too high school for me and I don’t want to take part in it anymore.’”
The bold essay has – against the actress’ wishes – drawn speculation amongst internet sleuths far and wide.
Eagle-eyed fans have since noticed that while Tisdale still follows Trainor on Instagram, she no longer follows Duff or Moore.
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