Ashley Tisdale kicked off the New Year with some celebrity drama, revealing that she'd broken ties with her "toxic mom group" in a piece for The Cut quite literally called Breaking Up With My Toxic Mom Group. And—as the Daily Mail first reported—everyone was quick to notice that Ashley had also unfollowed two of her mom friends, Mandy Moore and Hilary Duff.
However! Ashley's rep got in touch with TMZ and said—to quote the outlet—that there's "zero truth to what online 'detectives' think they’ve cracked, especially since the piece wasn’t even about Mandy Moore, Hilary Duff or Meghan Trainor like they're assuming."
They also shut down speculation that Ashley's falling out had to do with political differences, noting that she’s a registered Democrat.
Nothing was confirmed about which mom group Ashley left, but we do know she cut ties over high school bullying vibes. As Ashley herself put it, in part, "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."
She ended things with a text that said "This is too high school for me and I don’t want to take part in it anymore," which "didn’t exactly go over well."
"Some of the others tried to smooth things over," she explained. "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."
