Meghan Trainor has shared her reaction to the ‘toxic mom group’ drama amid claims she was part of the friends circle Ashley Tisdale slammed in her viral essay.
Tisdale, 40, who has two daughters called Jupiter, four, and Emerson, 16 months, wrote that she felt excluded from the clique during her latest postpartum period.
The High School Musical star refrained from naming any of the other women, resulting in a whirlwind of conjecture about who they might be.
Fans quickly noticed that in years past, she had gushed about her ‘village of moms,’ a claque of fellow mothers including Mandy Moore, Hilary Duff and Trainor.
Pouring fuel on the fire, Tisdale unfollowed both Moore and Duff on Instagram shortly before her bombshell essay was published in The Cut.
Now, as a cloud of speculation continues to gather over her and her friends, Trainor, 32, has uploaded a TikTok giving her response to the unfolding controversy.
Meghan Trainor has shared her reaction to the ‘toxic mom group’ drama amid rumors she was part of the friends circle Ashley Tisdale slammed in her viral essay
Hilary Duff (center right) once posted a selfie that Trainor (right) took of the mom group, which included that also included Tisdale (left) and Mandy Moore
She posted a clip of herself wide-eyed with concern as she sat at the computer, with the caption: ‘me finding out about the apparent mom group drama.’
Notably, although Tisdale has unfollowed Moore and Duff on Instagram, she still follows Trainor on the platform – although Trainor does not follow her back.
Tisdale shares both of her children with her composer husband Christopher French, whom she married in 2014 after a two-year romance.
Meanwhile Trainor has two sons called Riley, four, and Barry, two, with her husband Daryl Sabara – who has also responded publicly to the ‘mom group’ fracas.
When he was asked about the ‘drama,’ he replied: ‘No drama over here, just trying to keep the kids happy,’ during an interview with TMZ.
Sabara was prodded further about Tisdale and doubled down on his stance, saying: ‘I don’t really know what’s going on. I hope she’s okay, though.’
Tisdale had praised her ‘village of moms’ after her first child was born in 2021, and the following year she effused about a weekend getaway with Duff and Trainor, writing: ‘What an amazing group of women to journey through this mom-hood together!’
Last January she waxed rhapsodic about how her ‘mom group’ rallied around each other amid the Los Angeles wildfires, which consumed Moore’s home, forcing her and her family to temporarily move in with Duff.
Tisdale, 40, who has two daughters called Jupiter, four, and Emerson, 16 months, wrote that she felt excluded from the clique during her latest postpartum period
In years past, Tisdale (second from left) had gushed about her friend group of fellow mothers including Mandy Moore, Hilary Duff (fourth from right) and Trainor (second from right)
Tisdale shares both of her children with her composer husband Christopher French; the family are pictured last September during their younger daughter’s first trip to Disneyland
Meanwhile Trainor also has two children called Riley, four, and Barry, two, with her husband Daryl Sabara – who has also responded publicly to the ‘mom group’ fracas
‘The amount of people checking in with each other is so amazing,’ Tisdale wrote on social media, tagging friends including Moore, Duff and Trainor. ‘You realize in dark moments you have each other. The human connection is not lost. Shout out to the mom group that’s there in the highs and the lows.’
However last week on New Year’s Day, her bombshell essay Breaking Up With My Toxic Mom Group was published in The Cut and made waves around social media.
In the article – which was an elaboration on a blog post she shared in November – she wrote that the group began to get together without inviting her, and that she would then find evidence of the ‘group hangs’ on Instagram.
‘It took me back to an unpleasant but familiar feeling I thought I’d left behind years ago,’ she wrote. ‘Here I was sitting alone one night after getting my daughter to bed thinking Maybe I’m not cool enough? All of a sudden I was in high school again, feeling totally lost as to what I was doing “wrong” to be left out.’
She clarified that she ‘never considered the moms to be bad people (maybe one),’ but that ‘our group dynamic stopped being healthy and positive – for me anyway.’
One particular gathering that she was left out of proved to be the final straw for Tisdale, who sent the group a text announcing her departure.
‘This is too high school for me and I don’t want to take part in it anymore,’ she wrote in the message, according to her new essay.
Shortly after Tisdale’s article was published, Duff’s husband Matthew Koma responded by posting a parody mock-up of a Cut headline that read: ‘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.’
Sabara, who is pictured with his wife in November, was asked about the Tisdale ‘drama’ and replied: ‘No drama over here, just trying to keep the kids happy,’ during an interview with TMZ
Shortly after Tisdale’s article was published, Duff’s husband Matthew Koma responded by posting a parody mock-up of a Cut headline calling Tisdale ‘tone deaf’ and ‘self obsessed’
Hours later, Moore posted to social media hailing Koma as ‘one of the most talented and generous humans I’m lucky to know,’ pointing out that he ‘literally gave my family a place to stay one year ago today when we evacuated.’
Rumors have been circulating about why Tisdale might have been frozen out of the group – with one strain of speculation saying the break could have resulted from her social media posts about Charlie Kirk’s assassination last September.
Tisdale had contrasted the reactions to the murder with the response to 9/11, writing: ‘Where we once were united and grieving together as a country, today we see someone die and blame his politics and opinions. Everyone in that building had different views and opinions, when we stop caring about loss of life we are done.’
Her post was met with liberal outrage online, prompting her to fire back in her defense: ‘It shouldn’t be controversial to say this, but even when we disagree or find someone’s views offensive, violence is never the answer.’
Tisdale noted that she was ‘for equal rights for everyone – women’s rights, voting rights, LGBTQ+ rights,’ as well as for gun control and ‘reproductive rights.’
She appeared to be delineating a divide between her views and those of the late Kirk, a Christian conservative who was firmly opposed to abortion, gay marriage and various trans causes as well as being a fierce advocate of gun rights.
However one source has responded to the conjecture about Tisdale’s isolation from the group by saying: ‘It’s a myriad of things, not just one specific,’ via Page Six.
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