If you haven’t been keeping up with the “Toxic Mum Group” lore, first of all, I envy your peace of mind.

Secondly, pull up a chair, because Meghan Trainor has finally cleared the air about where she stands with Sharpay Evans — sorry, Ashley Tisdale — after that viral essay sent the internet into a certified tailspin.

To recap the chaos: Ashley Tisdale penned a piece for The Cut earlier this year about walking away from a friend group that made her feel “less than”.

The article that started it all. (Image: The Cut / Instagram)

Naturally, because the internet has zero chill, everyone immediately looked at her most famous mum friends — Hilary Duff, Mandy Moore, and Meghan Trainor, and decided they were the mean girls of the playground.

But as it turns out, Meghan wasn’t the villain, she was just the friend who never showed up to the brunch.

Speaking to Us Weekly, the “Mother” singer admitted she was actually “a bad mum friend” in the sense that she was never actually there.

“I never went. They had so many events; they were awesome and always there for each other,” she explained.

According to Meghan, the group eventually started a secondary chat without her simply because she was MIA, which she was “totally fine” with.

When the essay dropped and the “toxic” allegations started flying, Meghan found her face plastered all over TikTok as the primary suspect. “I saw a TikTok where they were like, ‘Well, everyone hates Meghan Trainor right now, so I bet she’s the mean one’. And I was like, ‘Don’t worry, guys’,” she said.

A simpler time. (Image: Instagram)

In a wholesome twist, Ashley apparently actually reached out to Meghan once the speculation got out of hand to make sure there was no bad blood.

“Ashley texted me like, ‘I’m sorry, your name got dragged in’,” Meghan revealed.

“I was like, ‘It’s all right, girl. The world’s a silly, crazy place, and they just want something to talk about’.”

While Meghan insists there was just “a lot of miscommunication and confusion” and that she “felt bad for Ashley, that she was ever that sad”, she’s officially washing her hands of the drama. She even posted a TikTok lip-syncing to Stranger Things with the caption: “I swear I’m innocent.”

So, there you have it. No burn books, no secret sabotages, just a lot of busy mums and a group chat that got way too famous for its own good.

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