Jenna Bush Hager Says to Take Drama ‘Off the Internet’ After Ashley Tisdale Called Out Her Mom Group

Jenna Bush Hager thinks Ashley Tisdale may have handled her friend drama the wrong way.

On the Tuesday, January 6, broadcast of Today With Jenna & Friends, the 44-year-old journalist and guest host Matt Rogers discussed the High School Musical alum’s viral article for The Cut titled “Breaking Up With My Toxic Mom Group.”

Rogers, 35, noted that the actress, 44, felt left out of the group — which fans speculated referred to the celebrity clique that includes Hilary Duff, Mandy Moore and Meghan Trainor, among others — because of photos posted on social media that didn’t include her. “It’s kind of a little bit hypocritical to me to then put this out on social media,” he said.

Hager, 44, seemed to agree, adding: “Everything is public, right? The ‘feeling left out’ is public because of social media, but also the fact that she wrote an article and made it public…”

“Good for her for telling her truth,” Hager continued. “But I also think private conversations are more and more important — speaking your truth to the people that have hurt you should be enough.”

Rogers said that he understands the “instinct to stunt on people” — or calling someone out after feeling wronged — but Hager pointed out that readers will never know what truly went down between the group of people Tisdale called “toxic.”

“How do we know the truth?” Hager asked. “We weren’t at the kid’s birthday party. That’s the thing. I don’t know, I feel like: Let’s take some stuff off the internet and get it in our homes.”

She added, “There’s a phone — pick it up!”

In Tisdale’s Cut article, the actress claimed she was being slowly phased out of the group by mysteriously being left out of group hangs.

“I still don’t get why I wasn’t at the girl hang that they all planned at my daughter’s birthday,” she wrote.

At one point, the actress — who shares daughters Jupiter, 4, and Emerson, 1, with husband Christopher French — said she texted the group chat, “This is too high school for me and I don’t want to take part in it anymore.”

According to Tisdale, “It didn’t exactly go over well.”