{"id":2225890,"date":"2026-01-07T16:17:40","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T16:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2225890"},"modified":"2026-01-07T16:17:40","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T16:17:40","slug":"the-viral-toxic-celebrity-mom-group-drama-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/the-viral-toxic-celebrity-mom-group-drama-explained\/","title":{"rendered":"The Viral &#8220;Toxic&#8221; Celebrity Mom Group Drama, Explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-journey-body=\"standard-article\">\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"0\" class=\"body-dropcap css-1vn2egp emevuu60\">The year is off to quite the dramatic start. As many of us try to keep our sanity amid the world\u2019s escalating problems (see U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s explosive invasion of Venezuela on January 3), it\u2019s easy to turn to the entertainment world for solace\u2014even if that means obsessing over silly gossip and \u201cmom group\u201d drama.<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"1\" class=\"css-6wxqfj emevuu60\">This week, awards season kicked off and our favorite movie stars returned to the red carpet, but the biggest story on everyone\u2019s feeds came from <em data-node-id=\"1.1\">High School Musical<\/em> alum Ashley Tisdale, who published an <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thecut.com\/article\/ashley-tisdale-french-mom-group-mean-girls-parenting.html\" target=\"_blank\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/www.thecut.com\/article\/ashley-tisdale-french-mom-group-mean-girls-parenting.html\" data-vars-ga-ux-element=\"Hyperlink\" data-vars-ga-call-to-action=\"op-ed on The Cut\" data-node-id=\"1.3\" class=\"body-link css-zdij3o emevuu60\">op-ed on <em data-node-id=\"1.3.1\">The Cut<\/em><\/a> blasting her group of famous mom friends as \u201cmean\u201d and \u201ctoxic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"2\" class=\"css-6wxqfj emevuu60\">In the first-person essay, titled \u201cBreaking Up With My Toxic Mom Group,\u201d the actor accused the starry group\u2014which seemingly includes Hilary Duff, Mandy Moore, and Meghan Trainor\u2014of excluding her from activities and icing her out, all while she was seeing photos of their meetups all over Instagram.<\/p>\n<section data-embed=\"watch-next\" data-lazy-id=\"P0-14\" data-node-id=\"3\" class=\"embed\"\/>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"4\" class=\"css-6wxqfj emevuu60\">She wrote, \u201cHere I was sitting alone one night after getting my daughter to bed, thinking, <em data-node-id=\"4.1\">Maybe I\u2019m not cool enough?<\/em> All 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<section data-embed=\"recirculation\" data-lazy-id=\"P0-15\" data-node-id=\"5\" class=\"embed\"\/>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"6\" class=\"css-6wxqfj emevuu60\">After realizing she was still being excluded from \u201cgroup hangs,\u201d Tisdale said she confronted the other moms in their group chat. She wrote: \u201cThis is too high school for me and I don\u2019t want to take part in it anymore.\u201d Her comment, Tisdale said, \u201cIt didn\u2019t 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\u2019d been invited to gatherings and just hadn\u2019t shown up. <em data-node-id=\"6.1\">Then why didn\u2019t anyone ever ask where I was?<\/em>, 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\u2014for me, anyway.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"7\" class=\"css-6wxqfj emevuu60\">Tisdale didn\u2019t name any names (though fans can and have already guessed them), and none of the moms publicly responded to her essay. But one dad did. Duff\u2019s husband, musician Matthew Koma, took to his Instagram Stories on Tuesday to post a mock <em data-node-id=\"7.1\">The Cut<\/em> cover of himself with a headline that read, \u201cA mom group tell all through a father\u2019s eyes: When You\u2019re the Most Self-Obsessed Tone Deaf Person on Earth, Other Moms Tend to Shift Focus To Their Actual Toddlers.\u201d He added in a sarcastic caption, \u201cRead my new interview with @thecut.\u201d<\/p>\n<section data-embed=\"body-image\" data-lazy-id=\"P0-16\" data-node-id=\"8\" class=\"embed\">\n<div size=\"medium\" data-embed=\"body-image\" class=\"align-center size-medium embed css-y6m8k e1fodxfw4\">\n<div class=\"css-uwraif e1fodxfw3\"><\/p>\n<p><figcaption data-theme-key=\"photo-credit-figcaption\" class=\"css-1am3yn9 e1g9hcy40\"><span data-theme-key=\"photo-credit-creditor\" class=\"css-1famh0f e1geg53v2\">courtesy of Matthew Koma via Instagram<\/span><\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"9\" class=\"css-6wxqfj emevuu60\">We are sat.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.harpersbazaar.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The year is off to quite the dramatic start. 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