set her sights on her former mom group compatriot, Ashley Tisdale French, in a new interview.
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Mandy Moore Slams Ashley Tisdale’s Toxic Mom Group Essay
Mandy Moore set her sights on her former mom group compatriot, Ashley Tisdale French, in a new interview.During a conversation with Andy Cohen on Monday for Sir...
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During a conversation with on Monday for SiriusXM's Radio Andy, Moore, 42, admitted that she found Tisdale French's essay about the 'toxic' mom group that had allegedly given her the cold shoulder to be 'very upsetting.'
'It's wild to have anybody talk about your life, and I know Hilary [Duff] has sort of mentioned this too,' Moore said, referencing one of the other celebrity mothers who are believed to be part of the friend group that Tisdale French described. 'It's like we both have grown up in this business and had people dissect who we are and the choices we make and all of that, but this was something altogether different and decidedly way more upsetting. It just cuts to the core.'
The Daily Mail has reached out to Tisdale French's representatives for comment.
Moore spoke out about the essay just weeks after Tisdale French, 40, after her haircare brand was reported in April to have exceeded $250 million in sales.
In January, Tisdale published an essay in The Cut about a friend group of new mothers she had belonged to that allegedly began to give her the cold shoulder and stopped inviting her to events.
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Mandy Moore, 42, admitted that she found Tisdale French's essay about the 'toxic' mom group that had allegedly given her the cold shoulder to be 'very upsetting' during a conversation on Monday with Andy Cohen; pictured May 12 in NYC
In January, Tisdale published an essay in The Cut about a friend group of new mothers she had belonged to that allegedly began to give her the cold shoulder and stopped inviting her to events, leading her to break up with them; pictured in May 2025 in NYC
Fans and observers have theorized that Tisdale French was referring to a group of mothers that includes Moore, Hilary Duff and Meghan Trainor, based on past social media posts
Fans and observers have theorized that Tisdale French was referring to a group of mothers that includes Moore, Duff and Meghan Trainor, based on social media posts showing the group hanging out in the past, but Tisdale French's representatives have previously denied the speculation about which women she may have been referring to.
Tisdale French revealed in her essay that she eventually severed ties with the unnamed group of women by sending a group text reading, 'This is too high school for me and I don’t want to take part in it anymore.'
While Moore has previously thrown her support behind Duff and her husband, Matthew Koma, after they spoke out about the essay, her latest statement seems to confirm that she is part of the mothers' group that inspired the essay.
Moore shares two sons and a daughter with her husband, Dawes frontman Taylor Goldsmith: August 'Gus' Harrison, five; Oscar 'Ozzie' Bennett Goldsmith, three; and 17-month-old Louise 'Lou' Everett Goldsmith; Moore and Goldsmith pictured in 2024 in Santa Monica, Calif.
In February, Hilary Duff said on the Call Her Daddy podcast that she felt 'used' after Tisdale French's essay was published
'I honestly felt really sad,' she said of the drama. 'I was, like, pretty, pretty taken aback and felt just, like, sad.'
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Duff, 38, said that being a mother had connected her to new friends, rather than shrinking her social circle, and she claimed to have significant friendships within multiple groups of mothers.
'I have so many groups of friends. I'm so lucky,' she said. 'Motherhood has brought on, like, I have my core group of friends who have been my ride-or-dies for 10 to 20 years, and I have tons of different groups of mom friends because I have four kids.
It was Duff's husband, the musician and producer Matthew Koma, who most directly appeared to confirm that Tisdale French had been writing about Duff and the other celebrities she had previously posed with on social media; (Duff and Koma in December)
Duff shares son Luca Cruz Comrie, 13, with ex-husband Mike Comrie, and daughters Banks Violet, 7, Mae James, 4, and Townes Meadow, 1, with Koma
Meghan Trainor revealed that she 'felt bad' for Tisdale French in a conversation with Us Weekly from April; pictured in August 2025
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It was Duff's husband, the musician and producer Matthew Koma, who most directly appeared to confirm that Tisdale French had been writing about Duff and the other celebrities she had previously posed with on social media.
Shortly after the essay was published, Koma shared a version of The Cut's cover photo of Tisdale French, but he had photoshopped his own face over the Disney Channel star's visage and added a new headline: 'When You're The Most Self-Obsessed Tone-Deaf Person On Earth, Other Moms Tend To Shift Focus To Their Actual Toddlers.'
In a smaller subheading, he joked, 'A Mom Group Tell All Through A Father's Eye.'
