Mandy Moore has made a cryptic comment about their friendship going in a “different direction” after Ashley Tisdale criticized a celebrity mom group as “toxic”.
During an appearance on the podcast Conversations with Come, the This Is Us actress asked host Cameron Rodgers if he had ever seen a friendship go in a different direction.
“For example, I have a friend who has older children,” she added. “And now I realize that the people I’m closest to in my life are the people who are at the same stage in my life as my parents.”
Ms Moore, who has sons August, 4, Oscar, 3, and daughter Louise, 16 months, with husband Taylor Goldsmith, said she and some of her friends had children “of the same age” and had “in some ways had to grieve” that their friendships had “changed”.
Rogers echoed Moore’s sentiments, saying she has a diverse group of friends with children of all ages.
“It’s nobody’s fault, it’s nobody’s fault, and it doesn’t make you stop loving someone,” the podcast host said.
“But you’re actually going to be in more contact with people who have kids the same age as you,” Rogers added.
The 41-year-old “Candy” singer said the natural bond arose because she and other parents of children her age go through similar struggles.
Moore’s comments about motherhood and friendship come more than a week after Tisdale, 40, criticized a former “toxic” mom group that included Moore, Hilary Duff and Meghan Trainor in a scathing essay for The Cut.
The High School Musical star, who has daughters Jupiter, 4, and Emerson, 1, with Christopher French, recalled in the article how she felt “not cool enough” after being excluded from moms’ hangouts.
“There were group text chains that didn’t include everyone, which led to the formation of cliques within the larger group,” she writes.
“And after seeing pictures on social media three or four times of everyone else participating in hangouts they weren’t invited to, I felt like I wasn’t really part of the group after all,” Tisdale added.
“At that point, I had to ask myself: Why am I still participating in this event?”
Duff’s husband Matthew Koma inserted himself into the drama by covering Tisdale with his own fake cover in the cut.
The 38-year-old singer posed for a fake cover with the headline, “Mom Group Tells Everything Through Dad’s Eyes: When You’re the Most Self-centered Tone-Deaf on the Planet, Other Moms Tend to Shift Their Focus to Their Actual Toddlers.”
Koma added a sarcastic caption: “Read my new interview with @thecut.”
Later, Tisdale’s husband posted a cryptic comment about the choice to “get involved or not.”
Page Six exclusively revealed that Tisdale’s drama with other mothers is based on “a myriad of things, not just one in particular.”
