Overview
- Mandy Moore told SiriusXM’s Andy Cohen Live she believes Ashley Tisdale’s essay was partly about her and said the coverage felt upsetting.
- Moore said she prefers to resolve hurt feelings face to face rather than through a public post.
- She argued the uproar fed a trope that women are petty, saying her experience of parenthood has been defined by support and real community.
- Tisdale’s January essay in The Cut described being excluded from a mom group and deciding to leave after calling the behavior too much like high school.
- Speculation online named Moore, Hilary Duff, and Meghan Trainor, but Tisdale’s representative denied their involvement, as Duff voiced sadness in February and Duff’s husband, Matthew Koma, posted a satirical image that stoked further guesses.