Hilary Duff and Mandy Moore wish that Ashley Tisdale French didn’t make their issues public in her now-viral essay about leaving behind a “toxic” mom group.
“They all feel blindsided and hurt by Ashley speaking out the way she did,” a source exclusively tells Us Weekly of the circle of friends. “From their perspective, they believed the group was supportive and coming from a good place, and they never thought there was any bad intent behind how things played out.”
The insider notes that the group felt like “issues that could’ve been handled privately were instead made public, which made them feel unfairly portrayed.”
“The moms insist there was no ‘mean girl’ behavior and say they were genuinely trying to be there for one another during a really vulnerable time in all of their lives,” the source shares.
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Us Weekly reached out to Duff, Moore and French’s teams for comment.
Although she didn’t disclose any names, French, 40, made headlines on January 1 with her essay for The Cut, in which she wrote about feeling excluded by a group of moms in California. (The High School Musical star shares daughter Jupiter, 4, and Emerson, 15 months, with husband Christopher French.)
“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 wrote in the article. “I was starting to feel frozen out of the group, noticing every way that they seemed to exclude me.”
She continued, “I told myself it was all in my head, and it wasn’t a big deal. And yet, I could sense a growing distance between me and the other members of the group, who seemed to not even care that I wasn’t around much.”
Ashley explained that she was then excluded from another outing and went on to send a text claiming that the group felt “too high school” for her, which “didn’t exactly go over well.”
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“Some of the others tried to smooth things over,” Ashley wrote. “One sent flowers, then ignored me when I thanked her for them. … To be clear, I have never considered the moms to be bad people. (Maybe one.) But I do think our group dynamic stopped being healthy and positive — for me, anyway.”
As news of the story made the rounds, social media users began speculating that Ashley was referring to her friendships with Duff, 38, Moore, 41, and other celebrities.
Getty Images (3)Days later, Ashley’s rep denied the rumors. The rep also claimed in a Monday, January 5, TMZ statement that Ashley hoped to spotlight an issue other women and moms could relate to.
Duff’s husband, Matthew Koma, went on to weigh in on the essay by promoting his own fake article with The Cut.
“A mom group tell-all through a father’s eyes,” Koma, 38, wrote via his Instagram Story on Tuesday, January 6. “When you’re the most self obsessed tone deaf person on earth, other moms tend to shift focus to their actual toddlers.”
That same day, Ashley’s husband Christopher, 44, shared a seemingly pointed cryptic quote via his Instagram Story, which read, “It’s your choice whether or not to engage.”
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