Ashley Tisdale’s Rep Responds to Hilary Duff and Mandy Moore Rumors

Ashley Tisdale French wants to set the record straight.

A representative of the French, 40, spoke of discussions fueled on the Internet according to which Mandy Moore, Hilary Duff And Meghan Trainor were part of the “toxic mom group” she talked about in The cut last week.

According to TMZ, French’s rep denied the rumors in a statement on Monday, January 5, clarifying that French was not referring to Moore, 41, Duff, 38, or Trainor, 32. The rep added that French planned her Thursday, Jan. 1, post, titled “Breaking Up With My Toxic Mom Group,” as a way to highlight an issue that other women can relate to, namely exclusion from a friend group.

Us every week has contacted the actress for comment.

“There’s a recent topic that blew up my phone like no other since my first wrote about this a few weeks ago. It’s a topic that inspired me to say, ‘I feel seen,’ and to share with me their most moving stories,” French wrote in her essay for The cut. “It’s the one that also made online sleuths try to do investigations like they were on CSI (please don’t even try – anything you think is true isn’t even close). The subject matter? Mom group drama.”

French shares daughters Jupiter, 4, and Emerson, 15 months, with her husband Christophe French. After welcoming their firstborn in 2021, she bonded with a group of friends who were also pregnant during the coronavirus pandemic.

However, she ended up I started to feel disconnected from this circle of momswriting, “I remember being excluded from a few groups, and I knew them because Instagram made sure to feed me every Instagram photo and story. I was starting to feel left out of the group, noticing each time they seemed to exclude me.”

She continued, “I told myself that it was all in my head and that it wasn’t a big deal. And yet, I felt a growing distance between me and the other members of the group, who didn’t even seem to care that I wasn’t there much.”

At one point, she texted the group saying that “this is too high school for me and I don’t want to be in it anymore.”

French’s honesty “didn’t really go down well,” she recalls. “Some others tried to work things out. One sent flowers, then ignored me when I thanked him for it.”

She added: “To be clear, I have never considered moms to be bad people. (Maybe one.) But I think our group dynamic stopped being healthy and positive – for me, anyway.

French did not name names in her essay and said she still doesn’t understand why she was excluded from social events.

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