“The View” hosts questioned why Ashley Tisdale chose to share “toxic” mom group drama in a public forum.
Co-host Joy Behar referenced the “High School Musical” star’s recent essay on The Cut, in which she recalled the time she cut ties with a group of “toxic” mom friends who allegedly excluded her from hangouts, calling the act “too high school” for her in a farewell text.
“Are you announcing your exit like that?” Ms. Behar asked her co-hosts during Saturday’s episode of “The Weekend View.”
“Or do you want to stop talking?”
Sarah Haynes responded that Tisdale’s public confession was “the most high school part of this.”
“I would never write a letter to a group and say, ‘Shame on you all,'” Haynes said, adding, “You just drop out, you just leave.”
Alyssa Farrah Griffin agreed that “toxic mother culture is what it is,” while Ana Navarro questioned why people “have to take these steps” to end unhealthy friendships.
“Why can’t I just stop that conversation and get it out of my head and out of my life?” Navarro added that Whoopi Goldberg has been known to “leave the conversation” during the show’s group chats.
Meanwhile, Behar expressed her disappointment with words like “toxic mother” and “mean girl.”
“It’s all very anti-women,” she said.
Representatives for Tisdale did not immediately respond to Page Six’s request for comment.
Tisdale, 40, published an essay earlier this month that made headlines. Apparently, she accused her former star-studded mom group of marginalizing her and making her feel “not cool enough” for them.
Although she did not name anyone in particular, she is known to be part of a group of A-list moms that includes Mandy Moore, Meghan Trainor, and Hilary Duff.
Duff’s husband, Matthew Koma, appears to echo Tisdale’s harsh message in a cryptic Instagram Story, suggesting she is “self-absorbed” and “tone-deaf.”
Trainor’s husband, Daryl Sabara, offered a more benign perspective, telling TMZ on Thursday that there was “no drama here” and that he “hopes Tisdale is OK.”
A source told Page Six earlier this week that the Disney Channel alum was frozen out by her former famous friends for “a myriad of things, not just one in particular.”
A source previously told Page Six that Tisdale was “intolerable” within the group, claiming that the feud had “been going on for a long time.”
