Who Is the ‘Maybe’ Bad Person in Ashley Tisdale’s ‘Toxic’ Mom Group?
“To be clear, I never considered the moms to be bad people. (Maybe one.),” Tisdale wrote in an essay for The Cut about leaving her mom group.
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The name on everybody’s lips is…Ashley Tisdale’s “toxic” mom group. Last week, the former High School Musical star dropped a bombshell (or should we say, momshell) when she detailed leaving the group in a personal essay for The Cut. While the idea that a mom group made up of affluent Southern California women could turn toxic was hardly enough to make anybody blink, the group’s star-studded roster certainly was.
The toxic moms in question? We’ve got:
- Hillary Duff
- Mandy Moore
- Meghan Trainor
- Other non-famous but similarly affluent women who are less likely to have walked red carpets in a jeans-over-skirt combo with Tisdale back in the day.
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The piece was actually adapted from a blog post Tisdale posted to her new lifestyle blog, By Ashley French (French is her married name), published in November and titled “You’re Allowed to Leave Your Mom Group.” However, that piece was framed more as advice for new moms thinking about leaving their mom group. “If a mom group consistently leaves you feeling hurt, drained, or left out, it’s not the mom group for you,” she wrote.
In her piece for The Cut, Tisdale goes deeper into why she left the group, saying she was left out of outings (some of which were planned at her own daughter’s birthday party), felt “frozen out,” “excluded,” and ultimately left the group, saying it felt “too high school” for her to continue.
All of this is probably stuff anyone would guess just from hearing the words “Ashley Tisdale Mom Group,” but one line from the article has continued to make waves. Of the moms, Tisdale wrote, “To be clear, I never considered the moms to be bad people. (Maybe one.)”
Maybe one?
Maybe one?
And thus, a million internet sleuths had a new case to take on. And where does any internet sleuth worth their weight in views start? The “following” tab. And what did they discover there? Tisdale no longer follows Duff or Moore. She does, however, still follow Trainor.
So our “maybe one” is officially “maybe two.” Sleuths also discovered Tisdale was conspicuously missing from the mom group’s October trip to Hotel El Roblar, per snaps from MUU founder and non-famous mom group member Jancie Gott’s Instagram.
Could this outing have been the straw that broke the mom group’s back? Perhaps. As for Tisdale, her reps told TMZ the piece is not about Moore, Duff, or Trainor and that it has nothing to do with a rumor that cropped up about Tisdale being MAGA (she’s a registered Democrat).
Even still, I’m gonna go ahead and guess that her beef is with Duff. That just feels spiritually right for two former Disney stars.
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