“The View” hosts questioned why Ashley Tisdale chose to share her “Toxic” mom group drama in a public forum.
Co-host Joy Behar referenced the “High School Musical” star’s recent essay in The Cut, in which she recalled breaking ties with her “toxic” mom group for allegedly excluding her from hangouts — a move she called “too high school” for her in a breakup text.
“Would you announce that you were leaving like that? Behar asked her co-hosts during Saturday’s episode of “The Weekend View.”
“Or just stop talking?”
Sara Haines responded by saying Tisdale’s public confessions were “the most high school part of this.”
“Like, I would never write to a group and say, like, ‘Shame on all of you,’” Haines said, adding, “You just drop out, you just go.”
While Alyssa Farah Griffin agreed that “toxic mom culture is a thing,” Ana Navarro questioned why they “have to go through all these steps” to cut off an unhealthy friendship.
“Why can’t you just leave the conversation, and get it out of your head and out of your life?” Navarro said, adding that Whoopi Goldberg has been known to “leave the conversation” during the show’s group chats.
Behar, meanwhile, expressed dismay with terms like “toxic moms” and “mean girls.”
“It’s all very anti-female,” she said.
A rep for Tisdale did not immediately return Page Six’s request for comment.
Tisdale, 40, made headlines when she published her essay earlier this month, seemingly accusing her former star-studded mom group of alienating her and making her feel “not cool enough” for them.
Though she didn’t name anyone specific, she’s been known to be part of an A-list mom group that counts Mandy Moore, Meghan Trainor, and Hilary Duff among its ranks.
Duff’s husband Matthew Koma seemingly weighed in with a harsh message insinuating Tisdale is “self obsessed” and “tone deaf” in a cryptic Instagram Story.
Trainor’s husband Daryl Sabara contributed a gentler perspective, telling TMZ on Thursday that there’s “no drama over here” and saying he “hope[s]” Tisdale “is okay.”
An insider divulged to Page Six earlier this week that the Disney Channel alum was frozen out by her former high-profile friends over a “myriad of things, not just one specific.”
A source previously told Page Six that Tisdale was “insufferable” in the group and alleged that the rift “has been a long time coming.”
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