Dylan Efron is coming Ashley Tisdale Frenchhis mother’s ongoing defense of group drama.
Dylan, 33, whose older brother Zac Efron starring the Musical Baccalaureate movies with Tisdale French, was quizzed on the subject during an appearance on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen on Wednesday January 21.
“I try to stay out of the way, so I don’t know too much,” Dylan he said. “All I know is, Ashley, ever since I was little, she’s been so sweet to me. So I can’t imagine her doing anything malicious at the mommy group. Hopefully it’s just a misunderstanding. I honestly don’t know what’s going on, though.”
“It seems more than a misunderstanding,” host Andy Cohen weighed
Ashley Tisdale French’s group of former moms are ready to move on after her viral essay about their alleged “toxic” dynamic put all eyes on them. “The moms who are left in the group don’t wish Ashey any ill will,” a source tells Us Weekly exclusively. The group of women, which many believe includes celebrities Mandy Moore, Hilary (…)
Dylan added: “I honestly don’t know what happened. All I can say is she’s been so sweet. She came to Dancing with the stars to support me I don’t see where this drama would come from. She’s so sweet.”
Indeed, Tisdale French, 40, and Musical Baccalaureate director Kenny Orega were on hand to support Dylan while competing Dancing with the stars season 34 last October.
The former Disney Channel actress has been embroiled in social media speculation since writing a january 1 essay to The Cut about leaving a mom friendship group that she described as toxic.
Tisdale French didn’t name any of the moms in her friendship circle in particular, but she has documented playdates with other celebrities in the past, including Mandy Moore, Meghan Trainor i Hilary Duffall of them also have small children. At the time, Tisdale French’s rep denied that her essay was about Moore, Trainor and Duff.
Ashley Tisdale French caused a firestorm with her inner circle of famous moms after she abruptly left the group and proceeded to write an essay about the “toxic” behavior of former friends. “The root of the problems was that some of the women became closer friends with each other, and Ashley started to feel left out (…)
In the piecetitled “Breaking Up With My Toxic Mom Group,” Tisdale wrote, “I remember being left out of a couple of group blogs, and I knew them because Instagram made sure to feed me every Instagram photo and story.”
“I was starting to feel frozen out of the group, noticing all the ways I felt like I was being excluded… I told myself it was all in my head, and it wasn’t a big deal,” Tisdale French continued. “And yet 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.”
Tisdale French said she left the group after texting her fellow moms that “it’s too high school for me and I don’t want to be a part of it anymore.”
“It hasn’t exactly gone well,” the actress shared. “A few of the others tried to smooth things over. One sent flowers, then ignored me when I thanked her. . . . To be clear, I’ve never considered moms to be bad people. (Maybe one.) But I think our group dynamic stopped being healthy and positive, for me, anyway.”
Trainor previously denied involvement in Tisdale French’s Mothers Group Issues. Moore and Duff have not publicly commented on the drama.