Ashley Tisdale Slams Hilary Duff’s ‘Toxic’ Mum Group In Essay
Ashley Tisdale has opened up about feeling excluded from a “toxic” mum group that includes Mandy Moore and Hilary Duff, saying the experience felt “too high school” for her to remain in their company.
Tisdale — AKA Sharpay Evans and Tipton Hotel staffer — recounted the story in a scathing essay for The Cut. She wrote that it began when she joined the famous group, which also includes Meghan Trainor, because she was “craving connection with other mothers”.
At first, the mum group provided Tisdale with a “sense of belonging”, but things turned sour when she “sense[d] a growing distance” and realised she was being “frozen out of the group”.
After noticing her exclusion when the mums would share their hangouts on Instagram and leave her off text threads, Tisdale reached a tipping point.
She recalled sending a defiant message to the mum group chat which read: “This is too high school for me and I don’t want to take part in it anymore”.
She missed a chance to say it was “too High School (Musical)” for her, but I digress.
“After the third or fourth time of seeing social media photos of everyone else at a hangout that I didn’t get invited to, it felt like I wasn’t really part of the group after all,” Tisdale wrote.
The essay is littered with other jabs at the Hollywood clique, including that one unnamed member was a “bad” person, that the group dynamic was not “healthy or positive”, and that another mum was also “brought to tears” because of the other mums.
Tisdale said that after sending the text, one member sent flowers and another claimed they weren’t aware she was being left out. As for the reason for her exclusion, Tisdale is unclear.
“The truth is, I don’t know and I probably never will,” she said.
Moore, Duff and Trainor are not mentioned by name in the essay, but it’s well-documented that Tisdale previously hung out with the crew after the birth of her first child in 2022.
Per Page Six, Tisdale no longer follows Moore or fellow Disney Channel star Duff on Instagram, but that pair have boasted about the mum group in the past.
Duff gushed over the group’s “big connection to one another” in 2024, while Moore said she was “grateful” to be part of the “cool mum group” back in 2022.
Word’s still out on whether anyone from the clique will respond, but my guess is the group chat is absolutely on fire right about now. But Tisdale, well, she’s “Breaking Free”.
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