Hilary Duff has broken her silence on the “toxic” mom group drama started by an Ashley Tisdale op-ed, and according to the Lizzie McGuire actress, she was just as surprised as the rest of the world was when it was published.
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While guesting on an episode of Call Her Daddy posted Wednesday (Feb. 25), Duff was candid about the fallout of the High School Musical alum’s January essay about “breaking up” with an exclusionary group of mom friends — which the internet quickly deduced likely included the How I Met Your Father star — after refraining from speaking on the topic for a couple of months. When host Alex Cooper first brought up how fans had put together that her guest was likely one of the mothers to whom Tisdale had referred in her piece, Duff replied sardonically, “I don’t really think people had to connect very many dots, do you?”
She went on to say that she “felt really sad” and “taken aback” when Tisdale’s piece came out — especially because, according to Duff, the claims her fellow former Disney Channel star made weren’t accurate. “Motherhood has brought on, like — I have my core group of friends who have been my ride or die for 20 years, 10 to 20 years, and I have tons of different groups of mom friends because I have four kids, you know?” she told Cooper. “So, I think I just was like, ‘Whoa.’ It sucks to read something that’s not true, and it sucks on behalf of, like, six women and all of their lives.”
The interview comes after Tisdale penned her essay for The Cut, in which she wrote that her former friend group had made her feel “left out” and like she was “back in high school.” Though Duff was quickly thrown into the center of the discourse, prying onlookers also speculated that Mandy Moore and Meghan Trainor were in the so-called “toxic” mom group as well.
Shortly after the piece came out, though, Duff’s husband, Matthew Koma — the father of three of her children and stepfather to oldest son Luca — left little room for doubt about Tisdale’s unnamed subjects when he posted a parody of The Cut headline. “When You’re The Most Self Obsessed Tone Deaf Person On Earth, Other Moms Tend To Shift Focus To Their Actual Toddlers,” he’d teased.
On Call Her Daddy, Duff said she didn’t realize Koma was going to post the barbed spoof. “Honestly, everything he does makes me laugh, so I was like, ‘Oh my god,'” she said. “But I also don’t censor him, and I don’t tell him what he can and can’t post. He is so fierce for me, and I love him for that.”
As for whether she has anything to clarify in regards to Tisdale’s claims, Duff said pointedly, “Nope.”
“I think it came at like the craziest time where I was, like … the timing felt not great, and I felt used,” she added, implying that her current musical comeback was the catalyst for Tisdale to write her article. In the weeks since it came out, Duff has received acclaim for releasing her first album in more than 10 years, Luck … or Something, earlier in February, and in June, she’ll embark on a sprawling arena tour.
Billboard has reached out to Tisdale’s rep for comment.
Luck … or Something dropped Feb. 20, marking a major full-circle moment for Duff. Her last LP, Breathe In. Breathe Out, dropped in 2015 and reached No. 5 on the Billboard 200, marking her seventh entry on the chart to date.
Check out Duff’s full interview with Cooper on Call Her Daddy above.
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