What to Know
It doesn’t matter how old we get or how long it’s been since we graduated high school — somehow, friend drama always finds us eventually, and apparently, that’s also true of the celebrity moms out there, according to a new essay published in The Cut by Ashley Tisdale.
The High School Musical star revealed that she recently walked away from her “toxic” mom group after she felt like they were trying to freeze her out and exclude her from their get togethers. But since she isn’t naming names in her new essay, fans are now trying to fill in the gaps and figure out exactly which fellow celeb moms she might have been talking about. This has the potential to be very juicy.
At first, Ashley felt like she had really found her people.
As a first time mom during the pandemic when her daughter, Jupiter, was born, Ashley felt like she was missing out on the opportunity to bond with fellow moms until she found a group of women who she bonded with who were in the same boat as she was.
“By the time we started getting together for playdates and got the group chat going, I was certain that I’d found my village,” Ashley wrote. “But over time, I began to wonder whether that was really true.”
Before long, she started feeling seriously left out.
“I remember being left out of a couple of group hangs, and I knew about them because Instagram made sure it fed me every single photo and Instagram Story,” she continued. “I was starting to feel frozen out of the group, noticing every way that they seemed to exclude me.”
At first, she felt like “it was all in my head and it wasn’t a big deal,” but the issue ended up taking up enough real estate in her brain that she decided to put an end to it.
“This is too high school for me and I don’t want to take part in it anymore,” Ashley texted the group chat when she decided that enough was enough.
Three celebrity moms in particular are being called out as potential mean girls in Ashley’s former friend group.
Since Ashley has been featured in social media posts with a group of moms including Meghan Trainor, Hilary Duff, and Mandy Moore, fans have speculated that they might be part of the mean girl gang who made Ashley feel left out.
But as Ashley’s rep said in a statement to TMZ, she wasn’t talking about them in her essay — or at least, that’s what she wants people to believe.
The rep also told the outlet that the essay was about a “completely different group of friends.”
Hmm…
