Meghan Trainor Breaks Her Silence on 'Mom Group Drama' Following Ashley Tisdale's Viral Essay

Published: Jan 09 2026

Meghan Trainor has finally broken her silence on the "mom group drama" that has been making headlines. On Thursday, January 8th, the 32-year-old singer shared a video on her TikTok, commenting for the first time on the drama that followed Ashley Tisdale French's viral essay for The Cut about her "toxic" mom group.

Trainor, who is allegedly a member of the former friend group of Phineas and Ferb star, joked about the moment she learned about the drama. "Me finding out about the apparent mom group drama," Trainor wrote across a video that included a clip of her sitting at her computer. The mom of two could be seen typing and looking animatedly at her screen, appearing shocked. The video was set to her new single, "Still Don't Care," off her upcoming album Toy with Me (out April 24).

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" #stilldontcare," Trainor wrote in her caption, sharing that she shares sons Barry, 2, and Riley, 4½, with husband Daryl Sabara.

Tisdale French, 40, originally shared her story as a blog post in November 2025 and it was later published in The Cut on January 1. In her viral essay, Tisdale French, who shares her two children, Emerson, 15 months, and Jupiter, 4, with her husband Christopher French, revealed that she'd left her mom friend group last year after experiencing behavior that made her feel like she was back in high school.

The actress wrote that she initially "felt lucky" to find a group of women going through the same feelings as her. Although she wrote that she initially felt like she "found my village," Tisdale French started sensing a distance between herself and the other moms. She said she was getting invited to things less and less and was even excluded from an event that the other moms planned at her daughter's birthday party. She noted that she started to feel like she wasn't cool enough to be in the group and felt like she was in high school again.

While she did not name the women from her former friend group in her essay, fans quickly zeroed in on past photos showing her spending time with a group that included Gaby Dalkin, Hilary Duff, Trainor, Mandy Moore, and others. Although Moore and Duff have yet to respond, Duff's husband Matthew Koma seemingly responded by posting a photo of himself in the same position as the photo of Tisdale French for her story with The Cut. In the picture, he was seen sitting on a couch next to a houseplant while wearing an all-black outfit paired with rose-tinted lensed sunglasses on his Instagram Stories on January 6. Koma added The Cut's logo and a fictional headline to the photo which read "When You're The Most Self-Obsessed Tone-Deaf Person On Earth, Other Moms Tend To Shift Focus To Their Actual Toddlers," with a sub-headline that read "A Mom Group Tell-All Through A Father's Eyes."

"Read my new interview with @TheCut," Koma captioned the Instagram Stories post.

After the drama began to go viral, a source told PEOPLE that the mom group drama stemmed from a "misalignment of values."

"It was a misalignment of values that Ashley decided to make public," a source close to the group told PEOPLE exclusively. "Friends naturally drift apart. It didn’t warrant a dramatic breakup text."

Trainor and Koma aren't the only ones to weigh in on the drama - Dalkin also seemingly responded with her own post on social media.

"Slowly coming back online after 2 weeks of family time, all the kid activities, and copious amounts of Christmas crack and cookies," the food blogger wrote in a post on Instagram Threads. "What did I miss??"

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