Kaley Cuoco and her friends are celebrating their close connection after Ashley Tisdale French went viral for drama with her former mom group.
“Mom groups are having a real moment on the interweb this week. Shoutout to my village, without whom I could be very lost and lonely,” Cuoco’s friend Ashley Jones wrote via Instagram on Wednesday, January 7, alongside several photos of their mom squad. “Tag your supportive ride or die mom group!”
Cuoco, 40, and Jones’ group includes Lacey Chabert, Ali Fedotowsky, Amy Davidson, Willa Ford and more.
“I miss them all this little, but so grateful we had each other during this stage — and every stage. #lifteachother #womensupportingwomen **not all are pictured, but all who are pictured are loved #momgroup,” Jones, 49, concluded.
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Several of the mom group members took to the comments section to gush over their bond.
“Love this group!” Fedotowsky replied while Davidson responded, “So grateful for this mom, Village! And the fact that we’ve been doing it together is so incredibly special ❤️❤️🙌🏻 Oh how I miss them this little, too!”
Earlier this week, French went viral over an essay she wrote for The Cut titled, “Breaking Up With My Toxic Mom Group.” In the piece, Tisdale French claimed she began to feel personally excluded from the group over time.
“I remember being left out of a couple of group hangs, and I knew about them because Instagram made sure it fed me every single photo and Instagram Story,” she wrote. “I was starting to feel frozen out of the group, noticing every way that they seemed to exclude me. … I told myself it was all in my head, and it wasn’t a big deal. And yet, I could sense a growing distance between me and the other members of the group, who seemed to not even care that I wasn’t around much.”
French claimed the dynamic was feeling “too high school” for her.
“To be clear, I have never considered the moms to be bad people. (Maybe one.) But I do think our group dynamic stopped being healthy and positive — for me, anyway,” she added.
French was famously part of the group which included Hilary Duff, Mandy Moore, Meghan Trainor and more. After French’s essay went viral, Duff’s husband, Matthew Koma, addressed the High School Musical star’s article by parodying it.
“A mom group tell-all through a father’s eyes,” Koma, 38, wrote via his Instagram Story on Tuesday, January 6, alongside a photo of him recreating French’s pose. “When you’re the most self obsessed tone deaf person on earth, other moms tend to shift focus to their actual toddlers.”
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While Moore, 41, and Duff, 38, have not publicly addressed French’s essay, a source exclusively told Us Weekly the group was shocked by it.
“They all feel blindsided and hurt by Ashley speaking out the way she did,” the insider explained. “From their perspective, they believed the group was supportive and coming from a good place, and they never thought there was any bad intent behind how things played out.”
Trainor, meanwhile, broke her silence on French’s claims in a Thursday TikTok video. .
“Me finding out about the apparent mom group drama,” Trainor, 32, wrote alongside a video of her sitting at a desk and typing on a computer, which was set to her new song “Still Don’t Care.”
