- Ashley Tisdale wrote and published a tell-all essay about “breaking up” with her “toxic mom group” for The Cut on Jan. 1.
- Internet sleuths have theorized that the High School Musical alum might be referring to Hilary Duff, Mandy Moore, and Meghan Trainor.
- After recent developments, Hilary started teasing her next single, which features NSFW lyrics like “Back of a dive bar giving you head / Then sneak home late, wake up your roommates.”
For pop culture aficionados who live for a mess they’re not directly involved in, 2026 is already the gift that keeps on giving, thanks to Ashley Tisdale and Hilary Duff’s “toxic mom group” drama.
In case you somehow missed it, Ashley wrote and published a tell-all essay for The Cut on January 1 in which she expressed feeling like she was “back in high school” for allegedly being left out of plans with other Hollywood moms. The High School Musical alum didn’t directly name the other moms in the group, but sleuths are theorizing that her essay might tie back to Hilary, Mandy Moore, and Meghan Trainor because she recently unfollowed them on Instagram.
However, Hilary seems generally unbothered by it all as she promoted a new NSFW song on January 7. She dropped a snippet of the risqué track, which highlights the sexual chemistry between her and a former flame with lyrics like, “I only want the beginning, I don’t want the end / I want the part where you say goddamn / Back of a dive bar giving you head / Then sneak home late, wake up your roommates.”
“I want the highlights, 10 out of 10 / The butterflies from holding your hand / Before we swept us under the bed / And we became practically roommates / I’m touching myself by the front door / But you don’t even look my way no more,” she also sings on the unreleased song.
While her reportedly estranged sister, Haylie Duff dropped a like on Ashley’s Instagram post promoting the essay, Hilary’s husband, Matthew Koma, came to her defense with a series of Instagram Stories on January 6.
“When you're the most self obsessed tone deaf person on earth, other moms tend to shift focus to their actual toddlers,” he wrote in a mock-up cover of The Cut, slamming Ashley’s essay.
A few days later, Mandy Moore seemingly sided with him and Hilary as she reposted a video of them performing her Y2K hit, “Candy,” at a benefit concert for the L.A. fires last year.
“This feels incredibly fitting as @matthewkoma happens to be one [of] the most talented and generous humans I’m lucky to know (he literally gave my family a place to stay one year ago today when we evacuated). Love you, MB!!” Mandy wrote alongside the clip.
Neither Hilary nor Ashley has directly responded to the drama since the essay was published, but Ashley’s rep told TMZ that “there’s ‘zero truth’ to what online ‘detectives’ think they’ve cracked.”
Shortly after, a Page Six insider confirmed that Matthew’s shady Instagram post was fully about Ashley, saying that he “gave her what she had coming” since their friendship breakup “has been a long time coming.”
