The internet was sent into a tizzy when Ashley Tisdale seemingly slammed her “toxic” former mum group — which included fellow stars Mandy Moore, Hilary Duff and Meghan Trainor — but a rep for the actress has since shut down all the speculation.
It all kicked off when Tisdale (AKA Sharpay Evans) penned a scathing essay for The Cut, accusing an *unnamed* clique of mums of excluding her and saying the group dynamic felt “too high school” for her to remain in their company.
Given Tisdale’s well-documented place in the famous mum crew — which she has reportedly been a part of since 2022 — it wasn’t long before fans assumed Tisdale was referring to that specific group of friends.
But a rep for Tisdale has since denied that is the case, telling TMZ her essay had nothing to do with the celebrity group, despite fans’ assumption.
While no official quote was given, TMZ reports that Tisdale’s words were twisted, emphasising that her article was about real issues facing new mums and not a celebrity feud-starter.
No other parties have responded to the essay, which saw Tisdale recount her falling out with a group of mums after 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 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 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, and she was reportedly absent from the group’s trip to Ojai, California last October.
For her part, 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. As for Tisdale, well, she’s “Breaking Free”.
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