- Ashley Tisdale published an article called "Breaking Up With My Toxic Mom Group," which everyone thinks is about Hilary Duff and Mandy Moore.
- Hilary's husband, Matthew Koma, called Ashley "self obsessed" and "tone deaf."
- A source says he "gave her what she had coming" by speaking out.
Gather 'round, there's more "Toxic Mom Group" lore to go over. In case you aren't caught up on 2026's debut celebrity drama, Ashley Tisdale wrote an essay in The Cut titled "Breaking Up With My Toxic Mom Group," where she wrote about cutting ties with a group of friends who made her feel like she was being bullied.
The internet did its thing, noticed Ashley was part of a mom group that included Mandy Moore, Hilary Duff, and Meghan Trainor, and noticed she'd unfollowed Hilary and Mandy. And while Ashley's rep told TMZ that there's "zero truth to what online 'detectives' think they’ve cracked," Hilary's husband Matthew Koma hopped on Instagram with a satirical headline reading "When You're the Most Self Obsessed Tone Deaf Person on Earth, Other Moms Tend to Shift Focus to Their Actual Toddlers."
And now a source is out here telling Page Six that his post was 100 percent about Ashley (I mean, obviously), saying "Matthew gave her what she had coming" and that the friendship breakup "has been a long time coming."
Per Ashley's essay, she ended her friendship with the unnamed mom group via text, which she says "didn’t 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’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."
Hilary Duff and Mandy Moore haven't said anything themselves, but...stay tuned?
