Why Ashley Tisdale Was Cut Out of Her Mom Group: ‘Straw That Broke the Camel’s Back’ Revealed

Ashley Tisdale is in the middle of some serious mama drama.

After the High School Musical alum, 40, penned a candid, now-viral essay titled “Breaking Up With My Toxic Mom Group“ for The Cut on January 1, a source told The U.S. Sun that many factors contributed to the reason why Tisdale could have been iced out.

“It wasn’t an overnight thing,” the source told the publication on Monday, January 5, adding that Tisdale — who shares daughters Jupiter, 4, and Emerson, 1, with husband Christopher French — was “slipping away” from those friends for quite some time.

“The big straw that broke the camel’s back was how Ashley responded to the group about the L.A. wildfires last year,” the source claimed, insinuating that the group included celeb pals who were impacted by the Southern California wildfires that wreaked havoc on the state exactly one year ago.

While Tisdale did not name-drop the people in her mom group, it is believed she could be referring to the celebrity clique that includes Hilary Duff, Mandy Moore and Meghan Trainor, among others. They have all been photographed together on multiple occasions, and it appears that Tisdale no longer follows Moore and Duff on social media.

In her Cut essay, Tisdale prefaced, “To be clear, I have never considered the moms to be bad people. (Maybe one.)”

According to The U.S. Sun’s source, “Multiple members of the group were impacted [by the L.A. fires], some worse than others, and Ashley hardly checked in.”

“She didn’t offer to help with the means she has. She just lived her own life, didn’t check in to see how they were doing, and her friends felt abandoned by her,” the source continued.

Moore, 41, and her husband, Taylor Goldsmith, notably lost their home in the wildfires, and they were taken in by Duff, 38, and her husband, Matthew Koma.

When it came to Tisdale, the U.S. Sun source claimed, “Her friends felt the amount of self-absorption she showed just got worse, and it was impossible to maintain a friendship with her since it was so one-sided.”

The source also noted that Tisdale has seemingly been defriended by other celebrity pals, including HSM costar Vanessa Hudgens, who “drifted apart from her for the same reasons,” they claimed.

“[Ashley] putting out that letter made those girls feel like it was such a slap in the face to the years of friendship they had built,” the source said.

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.

At one point, she 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.”