Ashley Tisdale fans suspect messy ‘mom friend’ fall-out from Hilary Duff and Mandy Moore after she slams ‘toxic’ group

ASHLEY Tisdale fans have suspected the actress is at the heart of a messy “mom friend” fallout with her showbiz pals Mandy Moore and Hilary Duff.

It came after the High School Musical alum, who welcomed her second child with husband Chris French last year, bluntly slammed a “toxic” group.

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Ashley Tisdale fans have suspected the star is at the centre of a ‘messy mom’ friend group falloutCredit: Getty

It came after the mom of two slammed a ‘toxic’ and ‘unpleasant’ groupCredit: Getty

Fans suspect Ashley has fallen out with Hilary Duff and Mandy Moore, who she used to hang around with and exchange comments on social mediaCredit: Getty

The High School musical alum has quit her friendship group after they left her feeling ‘left out’Credit: Getty

Disney Channel star Ashley, who is also mom to their three-year-old daughter, Jupiter, was part of an A-List parenting group that included popstar mom of four Hilary, 38, and Mandy, 41, and her three-strong brood.

Popstar Megan Trainor, 32, was also part of the clan, which Ashley said was put together by a mutual friend.

Yet in her new blog post for The Cut, Ashley, whose married name is Ashley French, has told of the “unpleasant” feeling she began to experience in the bunch, which left her “feeling totally lost as to what I was doing wrong to be left out.”

In the piece, tellingly titled You’re Allowed To Leave Your Mom Group, she explained how she took a stand after “being left out from yet another group hang.”

Ashley was previously seen hanging around with This Is Us star Mandy and Coming Clean hitmaker Hilary, with the bunch often exchanging comments on social media.

Now she does not follow either on Instagram, sparking more speculation of a feud, and wrote in the publication how the final straw came when she was excluded from a series of events.

She put: “During the early days of the group, there was another mom who often wasn’t included.

“I’d picked up on hints of a weird dynamic, but at the time, I didn’t dwell on it too much. I was just so happy to have found these incredible, smart, funny women. Now it seemed that this group had a pattern of leaving someone out. And that someone had become me.”

She continued: “Why me? The truth is, I don’t know and I probably never will. What I do know is that it took me back to an unpleasant but familiar feeling I thought I’d left behind years ago.

“Here I was sitting alone one night after getting my daughter to bed, thinking, maybe I’m not cool enough? All of a sudden, I was in high school again, feeling totally lost as to what I was doing wrong to be left out.”

Ashley, who revealed last March that she was expecting her second child, added: “Even though it had been decades since tenth grade, the experience of being left out felt so similar.”

The screen star told how she “knew I had to speak out” to set a good example for her daughters.

She wrapped her message by declaring the action she took to remove herself from the situation and said: “So that’s exactly what I texted to the group after being left out from yet another group hang: ‘This is too high school for me and I don’t want to take part in it anymore.’ It didn’t exactly go over well.

“Some of the others tried to smooth things over. One sent flowers, then ignored me when I thanked her for them. Another tried to convince me that everyone assumed I’d been invited to gatherings and just hadn’t shown up.

“Then why didn’t anyone ever ask where I was?, I wondered. 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.”

FAN THEORIES

Fans of Ashley. who married husband Chris in an intimate ceremony in Santa Barbara, California, in 2014 were quick to speculate over the identity of the “mean mom.”

One took to Reddit to put: “Who do you think the mean mom is? Don’t ruin Hilary Duff for me please.”

Another put: “Meghan seems too desperate for friends to be the mean girl. My money is on Mandy Moore.”

A third put: “My money’s on Mandy. I think she tries really hard to present herself as a very likeable person (and I have indeed liked her all these years!), but I don’t know.”

Another wrote: “Noted this elsewhere in the comments but someone pointed out on another post that the only one she unfollowed was Mandy Moore, so that’s my guess re who she’s referring to, regardless of whether it’s true or not.”

One wrote: “Tisdale is still following Meghan Trainor on instagram. Hilary and Mandy nope. I don’t know who the other moms are.”

A mom follower added: “I think, in general, talking about how difficult it can be to navigate friendships in adulthood should be talked about more and I’m glad it seems to be happening.

“It is hard and confusing and bewildering to be in these situations and not know why you’re on the outside with people who profess to be so close to you.

“Especially if/when your model of adult friendship was tv shows and movies where characters more often than not lived together or had endless availability in their nearby homes…so I am glad these conversations are happening.”

BABY JOY

Back in September, Ashley revealed her second child’s safe arrival with a black and white snap of the tot’s hand.

“Emerson Clover French, all three of us are obsessed with you 9.6.24,” she captioned the snap, adding a four-leaf clover emoji.

Fans in the comments on her post announcing that she gave birth wished Ashley and her family well.

“I’m so happy for you guys!! Congratulations!” one person posted.

The singer shared a post from her doula on her Instagram Story, which featured the same photo she posted on her feed.

The doula wrote, “Congrats to the sweetest family ever! Love you guys!”

Ashley replied in a caption over the Instagram Story, writing, “Best doula ever!!!”

Ashley said the group dynamic ‘stopped being healthy and positive’Credit: Getty

Fans noted how Ashley does not follow Hilary and Mandy on social mediaCredit: Getty

Ashley told how she didn’t consider the fellow moms to be ‘bad people – maybe one’Credit: Getty