By Meghan Trainor husband Daryl Sabara has addressed the drama surrounding it Ashley Tisdale French’s group of mothers
Approached by TMZ On Thursday, January 8, Sabara dismissed suggestions that there was bad blood on his side after French wrote a viral article by the cut, criticizing a former friendship group with other mothers that she was a part of.
“There’s no drama here, I’m just trying to keep the kids happy,” Sabara, 33, told the outlet after being asked what he thought about the controversy. (Sabara and Trainer share two sons: Riley, 4, and Barry, 2.)
While Sabara fielded questions about the drama, the spy kids star expressed his hope that the Frenchman’s well-being would not be affected.
“I really don’t know what’s going on,” he added. “I hope he’s okay.”
The ‘toxic mom group’ drama between Ashley Tisdale French, Hilary Duff and Mandy Moore has taken the internet by storm this week. “The root of the trouble was that some of the women became closer friends with each other, and Ashley started to feel left out,” a source tells Us Weekly exclusively. “There was (…)
before thursday Trainor, 32, broke her silence about French’s essay posting a clip via TikTok.
“I found out about the apparent mom group drama,” Trainor wrote in the TikTok video uploaded on Thursday, January 8. The short clip showed her sitting at a desk and typing on a computer while her song “Still Don’t Care” played. He captioned the post with three tea emojis.
French caused a stir when he exposed the dynamics of his mother group in a personal essay written for the cut. In the piece, French called the group “toxic” and revealed that he eventually left the group after feeling ostracized.
He didn’t mention any of the other mothers involved by name, but French frequently documented play dates with Trainor, Mandy Moore i Hilary Duff, each of whom has young children.
Ashley Tisdale.
(Photo by Bryan Bedder/Getty Images for Bush’s Beans®)“I remember being left out of a couple of group uploads, and I knew because Instagram made sure to feed me every Instagram photo and story,” French wrote. “I was starting to feel frozen out of the group, noticing all the ways they seemed to exclude me… I told myself it was all in my head, and it wasn’t a big deal. Still, I could feel a growing distance between me and the other members of the group, who didn’t seem to care that I wasn’t around much.”
French described breaking up with the other mom by texting the group that it felt “too secondary for me and I don’t want to be a part of it anymore.”
After fans pointed the finger at the famous group of mothers as what French was referring to in the essay, a rep for French denied the speculation in a statement to TMZ on Monday, January 5.
Ashley Tisdale French’s no-holds-barred comment about being kicked out of a “toxic” mom group has caught the attention of many celebrities. In January 2026, Ashley, who shares two daughters with husband Christopher French, raised eyebrows with an essay for The Cut titled “Breaking Up With My Toxic Mom Group” as she candidly (…)
The rep said French’s article “Breaking Up With My Toxic Mom Group” was written to highlight a related issue for women who have been left out of a friend group and was not specifically about Trainor, Moore, Duff and the others.
Sabara’s comments come after Duff’s husband Matthew But struck the Frenchman after the article was published earlier this week.
Posting via her Instagram Stories on Tuesday, January 6, Koma, 38, shared her own fictional version of The Cut’s article.
“A group of mothers tell it all through the eyes of a father,” Koma’s fiction article read. “When you’re the most tone-obsessed deaf person on earth, other moms tend to focus on their little ones.”