{"id":228235,"date":"2026-01-09T01:27:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T01:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/228235\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T01:27:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T01:27:11","slug":"meghan-trainor-addresses-ashley-tisdales-toxic-mom-group-takedown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/228235\/","title":{"rendered":"Meghan Trainor addresses Ashley Tisdale\u2019s toxic mom group takedown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"anchor-8bae45\" class=\"body-graf\">Meghan Trainor is weighing in on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/pop-culture\/pop-culture-news\/ashley-tisdale-reveals-left-toxic-mom-group-rcna252607\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the mom group drama<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-8219aa\" class=\"body-graf\">The &#8220;All About That Bass&#8221; singer posted a video to TikTok on Thursday addressing the viral drama surrounding Ashley Tisdale French\u2019s essay for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecut.com\/article\/ashley-tisdale-french-mom-group-mean-girls-parenting.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Cut<\/a>, where the &#8220;High School Musical&#8221; actor and singer revealed why she left her \u201ctoxic\u201d mom group. <\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-8f46ab\" class=\"body-graf\">Trainor wrote \u201cMe finding out about the apparent mom group drama\u201d across her video on TikTok, which showed her sitting at her computer, shocked and furiously typing while sipping tea. <\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-35259f\" class=\"body-graf\">She captioned the video \u201c\u2615\ufe0f\u2615\ufe0f\u2615\ufe0f<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/stilldontcare\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> #stilldontcare<\/a>\u201d and set the audio for the video to her new single \u201cStill Don\u2019t Care.\u201d <\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-2bd0e0\" class=\"body-graf\">Trainor, who is the mom of two boys, is one of the members of the famous friend group that many have speculated Tisdale French was writing about in her essay that published last week \u2014 a group that also includes Hilary Duff and Mandy Moore. <\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-cd0d0c\" class=\"body-graf\">Tisdale French left the moms from her former friend group anonymous in her essay, titled \u201cBreaking Up With My Toxic Mom Group,\u201d and did not name Trainor as one of the moms from the group.<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-4ec5e8\" class=\"body-graf\">She also cautioned \u201cwannabe online sleuths\u201d against trying to identify any of the moms from the group, saying, \u201cplease, don\u2019t even try \u2014 whatever you think is true isn\u2019t even close.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-05133b\" class=\"body-graf\">In the personal essay, she shared that she broke things off with her toxic mom friends after the group turned into mama drama.<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-cb2f6f\" class=\"body-graf\">Tisdale French, the former Disney Channel star and mother of daughters Jupiter and Emerson, wrote that after the birth of her first child, she was craving connection with other moms. She described feeling like she \u201cfound her village\u201d when she became friends with other mothers.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/260108-mom-group-hilary-duff-ashley-tisdale-meghan-trainor-vl-457p-20c542.jpg\" alt=\"Ashley Tisdale, second from left, Hilary Duff, center, and Meghan Trainor with friends\" height=\"1083\" width=\"1440\"\/>Ashley Tisdale, second from left, Hilary Duff, center right, and Meghan Trainor with friends at Rancho Valencia Resort &amp; Spa in Rancho Santa Fe, Calif.@hilaryduff via Instagram<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-eb4fb9\" class=\"body-graf\">Yet after being repeatedly excluded from group hangouts, and finding out about them on Instagram, Tisdale French wrote that their behavior made her feel like she was back in high school.<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-a53cfd\" class=\"body-graf\">\u201cHere I was sitting alone one night after getting my daughter to bed, thinking, Maybe I\u2019m not cool enough? All of a sudden, I was in high school again, feeling totally lost as to what I was doing \u2018wrong\u2019 to be left out,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-ddd923\" class=\"body-graf\">Tisdale French ultimately parted ways with the group and wrote that the friendships simply \u201cstopped being healthy and positive.\u201d \u201cTo be clear, I have never considered the moms to be bad people. (Maybe one.),\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-caa52f\" class=\"body-graf\">Hilary Duff\u2019s husband, Matthew Koma, also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/pop-culture\/celebrity\/hilary-duffs-husband-calls-ashley-tisdale-self-obsessed-toxic-mom-grou-rcna252797\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">weighed in on<\/a> the \u201ctoxic\u201d mom group drama. <\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-6d1a01\" class=\"body-graf\">Koma posted a photo of his face digitally imposed onto Tisdale\u2019s body to Instagram stories earlier this week. The original photo features Tisdale French in all black on a white couch and was used for the actress\u2019 essay for The Cut.<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-5ff7b6\" class=\"body-graf\">Koma included The Cut\u2019s logo and a parody headline, which read \u201cWhen You\u2019re The Most Self Obsessed Tone Deaf Person On Earth, Other Moms Tend To Shift Focus To Their Actual Toddlers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-f678fd\" class=\"body-graf\">Duff also was not named in Tisdale French&#8217;s essay.<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-ec5d7a\" class=\"endmark body-graf\">Representatives for Trainor, Tisdale French, Duff and Koma did not respond to NBC News requests for comment.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meghan Trainor is weighing in on the mom group drama. 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