Trending Now: Ashley Tisdale bails on ‘toxic’ celebrity mom group – Fans React

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It’s like a scene out of a high school musical — very dramatic.

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Ashley Tisdale said she called it quits with what she described as a “toxic” Hollywood mom group whose membership included the likes of Hilary Duff, Mandy Moore and Meghan Trainor.

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In an essay published by The Cut, the star of “The Suite Life of Zack & Cody” claims she had to leave the group after feeling “not cool enough” and being excluded from group meetups. 

In the essay, the 40-year-old Tisdale said she was “feeling totally lost” about what she possibly did to be “left out” of the celebrity parent group.

“This is too high school for me and I don’t want to take part in it anymore,” Tisdale texted the group.

The “High School Musical” alum said she never thought there were any bad apples in the mom group, except for “maybe one.” She claimed she had to sever ties after the “dynamic stopped being healthy and positive.”

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‘Mean girl behaviour’

Tisdale — who is mother to daughters Jupiter, 4, and Emerson, 1, kids she shares with husband Christopher French — wrote in a blog on her website that she had rallied against the group’s “mean girl behaviour” and isolation, which over time left her “hurt, drained and left out.”

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“I realized that there were group text chains that didn’t include everyone, which led to cliques forming within the larger group,” Tisdale wrote. “And after the third or fourth time of seeing social media photos of everyone else at a hangout that I didn’t get invited to, it felt like I wasn’t really part of the group after all.”

While the former Disney Channel star didn’t mention any celebrity mothers in the group by name, Tisdale no longer follows Duff and Moore on Instagram, but still remains connected online to Trainor, Page Six reported.

Members have gushed about group

Members of the allegedly toxic mom group have praised it for years.

In an interview with People in December 2024, Duff said it’s good to be “in the trenches” with the other moms.

“I feel like our big connection to one another, even though we’re pop stars or on TV, is we love our kids,” said Duff. “They were little baby worms when we all first got together and started music class at my house. Now, we’re in art class together, and we’re in gymnastics class together, and we’re just, like, moms.”

Moore told In Style in May 2022 that she was grateful to be part of the “cool mom club.”

“Somehow, I got invited into it and it’s the best,” she said. “I’ve made so many wonderful friends.”

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