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Meghan Trainor Says Ashley Tisdale Apologized After 'Toxic' Mom Group Essay

Trainor casts the viral fallout from Tisdale’s January essay as miscommunication.

Overview

  • Trainor, in an interview published Wednesday, said Tisdale texted to apologize for her name getting dragged into the online speculation.
  • She said she was a “bad mom friend” who rarely showed up, and that the group eventually spun up a separate chat without her, which she accepted.
  • Trainor said she texted everyone in the group and tried to calm things down, noting some non‑public moms were distressed to suddenly be widely searchable online.
  • Tisdale’s essay in January described feeling excluded from a friend group, and fan sleuthing pointed to well‑known moms including Hilary Duff and Mandy Moore, with Duff later saying the timing felt not great and that she felt used.
  • Trainor has posted playful TikToks signaling no feud, and she now describes the whole episode as confusion rather than conflict.