Ashley Tisdale French wants to make things clear.
A representative of the 40-year-old Frenchman has referred to the talk fueled by the Internet Mandy Moore, Hilary Duff i Meghan Trainor they were part of the “toxic mother group” she wrote about the cut last week
According to TMZ, French’s rep he denied the rumours in a statement on Monday, Jan. 5, clarifying that French was not referring to Moore, 41, Duff, 38, or Trainor, 32. The rep added that French had thought of her Thursday, Jan. 1 piece, titled “Breaking Up With My Toxic Mom Group,” as a way to highlight an issue that other women can relate to, being out of a group of friends.
Us Weekly has reached out to the actress for comment.
“There’s a recent topic that has blown up my phone like no other from the get-go wrote about it a few weeks ago It’s a topic that has had women message me to say ‘I feel seen’ and share their most emotional stories with me,” French wrote in her essay for the cut. “It’s one that also has aspiring online sleuths trying to investigate a bit like they’re on CSI (please don’t even try, what you think is true isn’t even close). The subject? Moms’ group drama.”
French shares daughters Jupiter, 4, and Emerson, 15 months, with her husband Christopher French. After welcoming her firstborn in 2021, she bonded with a group of friends who were also pregnant during the coronavirus pandemic.
However, she finally he began to feel disconnected from that circle of motherwriting, “I remember being left out of a couple of group blocks, and I knew because Instagram made sure to feed me all the Instagram photos and stories. I was starting to feel frozen out of the group, noticing anyway that I felt like they were excluding me.”
She continued, “I told myself it was all in my head, and it wasn’t a big deal. However, I could feel a growing distance between me and the other members of the group, who didn’t even seem to care that I wasn’t very close.”
At one point, she texted the group that “it’s too high school for me and I don’t want to be a part of it anymore.”
French’s honesty “didn’t sit well,” he recalled. “A few others tried to smooth things over. One sent flowers and then ignored me when I thanked him.”
She added: “To be clear, I have never considered mothers to be bad people. (Maybe one.) But I think our group dynamic stopped being healthy and positive, for me, anyway.”
French did not name names in her essay and said she still does not understand why she was excluded from social events.
“Here I was sitting alone one night after putting my daughter to bed, thinking, ‘Maybe I’m not cool enough?'” she wrote. “Suddenly, I was back in high school, feeling totally lost as to what I was doing ‘wrong’ to get left out.”