{"id":219159,"date":"2026-01-06T06:07:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T06:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/219159\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T06:07:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T06:07:17","slug":"ashley-tisdale-denies-mandy-moore-hilary-duff-were-in-toxic-chat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/219159\/","title":{"rendered":"Ashley Tisdale Denies Mandy Moore, Hilary Duff Were in “Toxic” Chat"},"content":{"rendered":"

Originally appeared on E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n

Ashley Tisdale<\/a> is not bopping with this drama.<\/p>\n

A rep for the High School Musical alum denied rumors that her recent essay detailing her experience<\/a> with a \u201ctoxic mom group\u201d was about her friendship with fellow moms Mandy Moore<\/a>, Hilary Duff<\/a> and Meghan Trainor<\/a>, telling TMZ<\/a> Jan. 5 it was unfortunate Ashley\u2019s words had been twisted in that way.<\/p>\n

As Ashley\u2019s rep explained, the 40-year-old penned the essay in the hopes of putting focus on the issues facing some mom circles, pulling from her own experiences of being shut out of her friend group in a way that made her feel like she was right back in high school. <\/p>\n

E! News has reached out to Ashley\u2019s rep but has not heard back yet. <\/p>\n

The Disney Channel star\u2014who shares kids Jupiter<\/a>, 4, and Emerson, 16 months, with husband Christopher French\u2014shared in the personal piece that when she first met her former mom group she was \u201ccertain that I\u2019d found my village.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cBut over time,\u201d she wrote in the essay for The Cut<\/a> published Jan, 1, \u201cI began to wonder whether that was really true.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Frenshe founder\u2014who now goes by Ashley French<\/a>\u2014didn\u2019t call out anyone in the group by name, although she had previously shared a look at her hangouts with Hilary, Mandy, and Meghan. <\/p>\n

\"Ashley<\/p>\n

Michael Tullberg\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

She wrote that she was so \u201cimpressed\u201d by the people in her mom group “and all of the amazing things they had going on,\u201d but the dynamic went South when she found that she was being excluded from mom hangouts. <\/p>\n

\u201cAt first, I tried not to take things personally,\u201d Ashley explained. \u201cIt\u2019s not like people aren\u2019t allowed to get together without me\u2014and maybe there were perfectly good reasons that I hadn\u2019t been invited. We were all busy, life was hectic. I told myself it was all in my head and it wasn\u2019t a big deal.\u201d<\/p>\n

But the experience made her feel ill at ease. <\/p>\n

\u201cHere I was sitting alone one night after getting my daughter to bed, thinking, \u2018Maybe I\u2019m not cool enough,\u2019\u201d Ashley recalled. \u201cAll 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<\/p>\n

\"Hilary<\/p>\n

Stefanie Keenan\/Getty Images for Baby2Baby<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is too high school for me,\u201d she said she texted the group, \u201cand I don\u2019t want to take part in it anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, she said her exit from the group didn\u2019t go over well, with some moms offering insincere apologies and others saying they didn\u2019t know why she was being left out. <\/p>\n

\u201cMotherhood has enough challenges without having to wonder if the people around you are on your side,\u201d Ashley concluded. \u201cYou deserve to go through motherhood with people who actually, you know, like you. And if you have to wonder if they do, here\u2019s the hard-earned lesson I hope you\u2019ll take to heart: It\u2019s not the right group for you. Even if it looks like they\u2019re having the best time on Instagram.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ashley isn\u2019t the only celebrity to get candid with a personal confession; keep reading for more.<\/p>\n

Jason Kelce Doesn’t Regularly Wash His Feet<\/p>\n

\"<p>Jason<\/p>\n

“What kind of weirdo washes their feet\u2026.” Jason Kelce<\/a> tweeted in June 2024 after a fan noted the athlete “looks like he doesn’t wash his legs or feet.”<\/p>\n

The retired Philadelphia Eagles player later doubled down on his comments.<\/p>\n

“What kind of psychopath washes your feet?” he deadpanned on an episode of his and brother Travis Kelce’s New Heights podcast, adding, “If there’s visible dirt on them, I’ll scrub the dirt off.”<\/p>\n

Robert Pattinson Did Not Watch a Clown Die at the Circus<\/p>\n

\"<p>Robert<\/p>\n

Over a decade after the Twilight star revealed that he saw a clown die in a car explosion during his first visit to the circus as a child, he admitted that wasn’t true<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“There was absolutely no hesitation at all [in my voice],” Robert recalled to The New York Times Style Magazine<\/a> in a December 2024 interview. “I’m like, ‘What on earth? Are you possessed?'”<\/p>\n

As for what he said during the 2011 Today interview promoting his film Water for Elephants?<\/p>\n

“One of the clowns died,” he explained at the time. “His little car exploded. The joke car exploded on him, seriously. Everybody ran out. It was terrifying.”<\/p>\n

Kim Kardashian Reveals How She “Honored” Grandma MJ During Sex With Pete Davidson\"Kim<\/p>\n

Grandma knows best.<\/p>\n

Kim Kardashian<\/a> got candid about how her grandma Mary Jo “MJ” Campbell<\/a> influenced one intimate moment between her and then-boyfriend Pete Davidson<\/a>, during an October 2022 episode of The Kardashians<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“Pete and I were staying at the Beverly Hills Hotel last weekend, and we were sitting in front of the fireplace, just talking for hours,” the SKIMS founder recounted to MJ, mom Kris Jenner<\/a> and sister Khloe Kardashian<\/a>. “And I was like, ‘My grandma told me that you really live life when you have sex in front of the fireplace. And so, we had sex in front of the fireplace in honor of you.”<\/p>\n

Grandma’s reaction? A nod of approval.<\/p>\n

“How creepy to think about your grandma before you have sex?” Kim said, to which MJ replied, “I know, but I was younger once.”<\/p>\n

Mila Kunis Reveals Why She and Ashton Kutcher Keep Bathrooms Doors Open at Home\"Mila<\/p>\n

The love shared in Mila Kunis<\/a> and husband Ashton Kutcher<\/a>‘s tight-knit family\u2014which includes 8-year-old daughter Wyatt and 6-year-old son Dimitri\u2014knows no boundaries.<\/p>\n

So much so, that the Black Swan<\/a> actress revealed they keep an open-door policy<\/a> at home.<\/p>\n

“That includes the bathroom,” she told E! News in September 2022. “It’s just one of those where, for better or for worse, as a family and the kids have all kind of embodied bodily function as a very standard norm.”<\/p>\n

Mila said she arrived at the decision after her family kept knocking on the door and asking to come in, which prompted her to oblige: “I was like, \u2018Oh, forget it. Just keep the door open.'”<\/p>\n

Pre-kids, she might not have imagined she’d flush that particular boundary away.<\/p>\n

She added, “I’d never thought that I would be the person that was able to go to the bathroom with the door open.”<\/p>\n

Joy Behar Admits She’s “Had Sex With a Few Ghosts”\"Joy<\/p>\n

Ghouls just want to have fun.<\/p>\n

As The View<\/a> panelists were reviewing footage about a woman who alleged she had “sexual ghosts” in her home, Sara Haines<\/a> asked the group an important question during an October 2022 episode<\/a>: “If you have sex with a ghost, can you get pregnant?”<\/p>\n

Fortunately for her, co-host Joy Behar<\/a> had an answer, adding, “I’ve had sex with a few ghosts and never got pregnant.”<\/p>\n

“I’m just gonna let that ride,” Whoopi Goldberg<\/a> said in response. “I don’t know how many of you just heard what Joy just said, but I’m going to let it ride.”<\/p>\n

Jenna Bush Hager Explains Why She Doesn’t Use Underwear\"Jenna<\/p>\n

Jenna Bush Hager<\/a> and Hoda Kotab<\/a> are a thick as thieves,<\/a> though there is one thing Hoda didn’t know about her Today<\/a> co-host. When the pair were getting ready for an episode of Today with Hoda and Jenna, Hoda discovered Jenna<\/a> perpetually goes commando.<\/p>\n

“We both had to change before the show and we were like, ‘Oh we have to go back into the changing room,'” Hoda said during a November 2022 episode of Today with Hoda and Jenna. “But then I noticed, Jenna never wears underwear.”<\/p>\n

Jenna’s rationale? Well, no underwear might just be more convenient to her.<\/p>\n

“I think it makes a more pretty silhouette,” she said. “I also think you don’t have to pack as much. There are a lot of pros to it!”<\/p>\n

Britney Spears Reveals She Has “No Idea” Who Pete Davidson and Scott Disick are\"Britney<\/p>\n

Looks like someone hasn’t been keeping up.<\/p>\n

Britney Spears<\/a> found herself embracing Keke Palmer<\/a>‘s viral saying<\/a> “he could be walking down the street, I wouldn’t know a thing,” when she admitted she didn’t know<\/a> who Pete Davidson<\/a> and Scott Disick<\/a> were.<\/p>\n

Reposting a humorous March video of Pete\u2014who was then dating Kim Kardashian<\/a>\u2014and Kourtney Kardashian<\/a>‘s ex Scott enjoying a “boyz night,” to her Instagram, Britney said the two of them had her cracking up.<\/p>\n

“Sorry had to repost this,” Britney wrote in the since-deleted post. “no idea who these people in the video are but it made me laugh so hard !!!!”<\/p>\n

Jana Kramer Explains Why “Asparagus Pee” Might’ve Lead To A Breakup With Chris Evans\"Jana<\/p>\n

Back before the world knew Chris Evans<\/a> as Captain America<\/a> and People’s Sexiest Man Alive of 2022<\/a>, Jana Kramer<\/a> knew him as the “heartthrob, cutie” she went on a few dates<\/a> with.<\/p>\n

It happened more than a decade ago, the singer revealed on her Whine Down with Jana Kramer<\/a> podcast in November, and though she can’t remember “how many dates it was,” she does recall their last encounter.<\/p>\n

Jana, then about 26 years old, said Chris invited her over to his house while he had friends in town from Boston.<\/p>\n

“The last interaction that I remember is him going into the bathroom after I just went with asparagus pee,” Jana remembered, referencing the veggie’s tendency to give urine a very distinct scent. “We didn’t hook up that night. He stayed up late with his friends and then [in] the morning I did the asparagus walk of shame out of his house.”<\/p>\n

She added, “I never heard from him again.”<\/p>\n

Former Grey’s Anatomy Writer Elisabeth Finch Reveals She Lied About Having Cancer\"Former<\/p>\n

Not all of these confessions are amusing.<\/p>\n

Eight years after sharing in an ELLE<\/a> article that she had been battling a rare type of bone cancer\u2014her fake diagnosis even inspiring a storyline on Grey’s Anatomy<\/a>\u2014show writer Elisabeth Finch admitted in December it was all a ruse<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“I told a lie when I was 34 years old and it was the biggest mistake of my life. It just got bigger and bigger and bigger and got buried deeper and deeper inside me,” Elisabeth told The Ankler<\/a> newsletter Dec. 7, adding, “I’ve never had any form of cancer.”<\/p>\n

Summed up Finch, who was placed on administrative leave from the ABC medical drama before eventually resigning, said, “What I did was wrong. Not okay. F–ked up. All the words.”<\/p>\n

Kim Kardashian Admits\u2014And Then Double Downs On\u2014Why She Would “Eat Poop” to Look Younger\"Kim<\/p>\n

Beauty is pain, but Kim Kardashian<\/a> might be able to stomach it.<\/p>\n

Telling The New York Times<\/a> the lengths she would go to for a more youthful appearance, the reality star cracked that she was willing to try<\/a> just about anything.<\/p>\n

“If you told me that I literally had to eat poop every single day and I would look younger, I might,” she said in June. “I just might.”<\/p>\n

In a July 2022 interview with Allure<\/a>, Kim said she was “kind of joking” about the comment, though the idea didn’t seem too terrible<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“But now that I think about it,” Kim added, “I would probably eat s–t if someone told me, \u2018If you eat this bowl of poop every single day, you’ll look younger.'”<\/p>\n

How much could she make room for? “Maybe just a bite,” she told the outlet. “I don’t think I can do a whole bowl.”<\/p>\n

Jelly Roll Admits He Once Pooped His Pants Onstage<\/p>\n

\"<p>Jelly<\/p>\n

Jelly Roll could\u2019ve used some saving from himself.<\/p>\n

The \u201cSave Me\u201d singer was asked about his most embarrassing moment<\/a> during an April 2025 appearance on The Jennifer Hudson Show\u2014and he definitely didn\u2019t hold anything back.<\/p>\n

\u201cI pooped myself one time,\u201d he admitted. \u201cI did, I\u2019m sorry.\u201d<\/p>\n

But to be fair, Jelly Roll (real name Jason Bradley DeFord) didn\u2019t expect to deal such a lethal blow.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was confident it was all air,\u201d he insisted. \u201cI’m so sorry. I watched this crowd go from loving me to just being completely out.\u201d<\/p>\n

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