Hilary Duff Finally Addresses Mom Group Chat Drama

Last week Hilary Duff released luck… or something, her first album in 11 years, which is reportedly tracking for a #3 debut on the Billboard 200 next week. She also recently made her return to the stage, re-creating some iconic choreography from her past, which hopefully will be a recurring bit on the tour she's launching in May. In the meantime, she's out there doing press around the new album, which has involved addressing the hubbub surrounding her allegedly "toxic" friend group.

One of the biggest tabloid stories of the year has been the drama surrounding a group of young mothers believed to include celebrities like Hilary Duff, Meghan Trainor, and Mandy Moore. It began on New Year's Day, when Ashley Tisdale published an essay in The Cut headlined "Breaking Up With My Toxic Mom Group." In the piece, which did not name names, Tisdale lamented an exclusionary high-school dynamic that set in after a while.

Response to the essay included a post from Duff's husband, Matthew Koma, who shared a mock-up of Tisdale's piece with a new headline, "When You're The Most Self Obsessed Tone Deaf Person On Earth, Other Moms Tend To Shift Focus To Their Actual Toddlers." Moore made some cryptic comments about the situation, and Trainor made some jokey TikToks about it. Duff herself has been quiet about it, save for an oblique mention in a Los Angeles Times profile last week, but now she has addressed it directly for the first time.

On the Call Her Daddy podcast, Duff told interview Alex Cooper about Tisdale's article: "I felt really sad. I honestly felt really sad. I was pretty taken aback. It sucks to read something that's not true. And it sucks on behalf of like six women and all of their lives. I think it came at the craziest time. The timing felt not-great. And I felt used."

Video from that moment in the Call Her Daddy interview is viewable below.