Mandy Moore made a cryptic comment about friendships taking a “different course” after Ashley Tisdale called out her “toxic” celeb mom group.
During an appearance on the “Conversations with Cam” podcast, the “This Is Us” actress asked host Cameron Rogers if she had “seen a friendship sort of take a different course.”
“I have friends who have kids that are older, let’s say,” she added. “And I have found that the people I am closest with in my life right now are people who are kind of at the same chapter of their lives as parents.”
Moore — who shares sons August, 4, and Oscar, 3, and daughter Louise, 16 months, with husband Taylor Goldsmith — said though she and some of her friends have kids who are the “same age,” she has “had to sort of mourn in a way” how those friendships have “changed.”
Rogers agreed with Moore’s sentiments, saying she also has a diverse friend group who have kids of all ages.
“I think that it’s no one’s fault and no one’s doing anything wrong, and it doesn’t mean you love anyone less,” the podcast host shared.
“But the reality is you’re going to be in more contact with the people whose kids are your exact age,” Rogers added.
The “Candy” singer, 41, said she had created a natural bond with parents who have children the same age as hers because they are going through similar challenges.
Moore’s comments on motherhood and friendships come more than a week after Tisdale, 40, took shots at her former “toxic” mom group — which included Moore, Hilary Duff and Meghan Trainor — in a scathing essay for the Cut.
In her piece, the “High School Musical” star — who shares daughters Jupiter, 4, and Emerson, 1, with Christopher French — reflected on feeling “not cool enough” after being excluded from the moms’ hangouts.
“I realized that there were group text chains that didn’t include everyone, which led to cliques forming within the larger group,” she wrote.
“And 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 added.
“At that point, I had to ask myself: Why am I still showing up for this?”
Duff’s husband, Matthew Koma, inserted himself into the drama by shading Tisdale with a fake cover of himself on the Cut.
The singer, 38, posed for the faux cover with the headline: “A mom group tell all through a father’s eyes: When You’re the Most Self-Obsessed Tone Deaf Person on Earth, Other Moms Tend to Shift Focus To Their Actual Toddlers.”
Koma added in a sarcastic caption, “Read my new interview with @thecut.”
Subsequently, Tisdale’s husband posted a cryptic quote about choosing “whether or not to engage.”
Page Six exclusively revealed that Tisdale’s drama with the other moms was based on “a myriad of things, not just one specific.”
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