After “High School Musical” star Ashley Tisdale penned a scathing first-person essay for The Cut about her “toxic” mom group, celebrities have been responding. And they are not, in fact, all in this together.
In her essay, Tisdale wrote how she was initially energized by joining a mom group of friends who happened to be having babies at the same time. Eventually, however, she began to feel left out.
Though Tisdale didn’t name names — and in fact her rep denied that certain celebrities were part of the clique — there has been a huge amount of internet speculation about the identity of the other moms in the group.
Meghan Trainor, who has been pegged by internet sleuths as a potential member of Tisdale’s former mom crew, shared what seemed like a response to the drama on TikTok on Jan. 8.
The video features an expressionless Trainor typing on a keyboard. The text reads, “Me finding out about the apparent mom group drama.” Playing in the background is Trainor’s song, “Still Don’t Care,” highlighting these lyrics: “Let me take a moment, think it over. Does it touch me at all? Nope, I still don’t care.”
In her essay, Tisdale wrote, “To be clear, I have never considered the moms to be bad people. (Maybe one.) But I do think our group dynamic stopped being healthy and positive — for me, anyway.”
She texted the group that she was leaving because it was getting “too high school” for her.
Tisdale, 40, who goes by her married name of Ashley French on her blog, is a mother of two who rose to fame as a child actor in the 2000s on the Disney Channel. Never one to hold back, Tisdale has been outspoken about her personal struggles with mental health, alopecia and breastfeeding.
Responses have been rolling in from other celebrities.
On Jan. 6, Matthew Koma, Hilary Duff’s husband, posted a fictional image on his Instagram stories.
The photo looks almost exactly like Tisdale’s photo from The Cut: Koma is wearing an almost identical outfit, sitting on a similar-looking off-white couch and striking the same unique pose. The Cut’s logo appears in the corner, and the text reads, “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.”
He also included the text: “Read my new interview with @thecut.”
Hilary Duff’s husband Matthew Koma shared this image on Instagram.Courtesy Instagram/Matthew Koma
Another Disney Channel star, Christy Carlson Romano, also shared her feelings about mom groups on Instagram on Jan. 6.
Moms of older kids sometimes end up “cycling out of those friendships, and that kind of sucks,” Romano said. When the dynamic shifts, moms often find a new group of friends.
“It’s not supposed to be dramatic, but I get it. Sometimes it gets a little crazy and then you write an article about it,” Romano concludes with a pointed glance at the camera.
Tisdale’s husband, Christopher French, shared a cryptic Instagram message in his stories: “Underrated life skill: Pausing to decide if it’s worth your energy.” The image was originally posted by @heycoryallen.
Will this mom group rift have an ending worthy of a Disney Channel original movie? Or will the division continue to play out on social media?
As one commenter on Romano’s reel wrote, “These Disney Channel mom group wars were not on my bingo card for 2026.”