Meghan Trainor says Ashley Tisdale French texted her after French's viral essay set off talk about a celebrity mom group. Trainor said French wrote, “I’m sorry, your name got dragged in,” and that she answered, “It’s all right, girl, like, the world’s a silly, crazy place, and they just want something to talk about.”
The pop singer said she “felt bad for Ashley” and thought the fallout was mostly “miscommunication and confusion,” adding, “I don’t know what happened, but I wish them all the best.” French published the January essay, “Breaking Up With My Toxic Mom Group,” without naming anyone directly, but fans linked it to Trainor, Hilary Duff and Mandy Moore. After the piece spread online, Trainor posted a TikTok showing her typing on a computer and sipping coffee with the caption, “Me finding out about the apparent mom group drama.”
Trainor said she last saw the group “a year ago” when she paid for dinner as an apology for missing time with the others, and said there had once been a group chat before the others started one without her. “Wait a second, I am not even there,” she said of the split, later adding, “I texted all of them.” She also said, “It was a nightmare for a lot of moms in that group.”
The comments came as Trainor, 32, was promoting her seventh album, Toy With Me, out April 24, along with her Get In Girl Tour. Trainor said she has three children with husband Daryl Sabara — sons Riley, 5, and Barry, 2, and daughter Mikey Moon, born via surrogate in January — and said she misses having a circle of mom friends. “It’s so hard to make mom friends [in] this season of life,” she said, adding, “I could use one right now,” and that her idea of a good friend is “some girl pulling up being like, ‘Let’s go shopping. F*** all this.’”
French did not name names in her essay, but the reaction showed how quickly an unnamed anecdote can turn into a public guessing game when it involves celebrity parents. Trainor’s account suggests the women have since tried to smooth things over, but the episode also underlines how thin those social circles can be when one absence, one chat and one essay collide.
