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Hilary Duff’s husband Matthew Koma has weighed in on rumors his wife is part of a toxic mom group. 

Recently, High School Musical alum Ashley Tisdale opened up about quitting her group of mom friends after she got fed up with their “mean girl behavior.” 

In her essay for The Cut, Tisdale didn’t identify her former friends by name. But the allegedly catty group is said to have included several well-known women, including Meghan Trainor, Mandy Moore and Duff. (In a statement to TMZ, Tisdale’s rep denied the essay was about Moore, Duff, or Trainor, despite what internet sleuths suspected.) 

None of the women in question have commented on Tisdale’s essay. But Koma addressed the kerfluffle in a post on his Instagram Story. 

The songwriter shared an image of himself mirroring Tisdale’s pose in the photo that accompanied the essay. “Read my new interview with @thecut,” he wrote, referring to a fake article with a very pointed headline: “When You’re the Most Self Obsessed Tone Deaf Person on Earth, Other Moms Tend to Shift Focus to Their Actual Toddlers.”  

Tisdale hasn’t commented on Koma’s post. But it’s unlikely to make her question her decision to leave her former friends behind. 

Tisdale’s experience with her toxic mom group “took me back to an unpleasant but familiar feeling I thought I’d left behind years ago,” she wrote in her essay. “Here I was sitting alone one night after getting my daughter to bed, thinking, Maybe I’m not cool enough? All of a sudden, I was in high school again, feeling totally lost as to what I was doing ‘wrong’ to be left out.”

But Tisdale eventually realized she didn’t need to keep people who didn’t like her in her life. 

“Motherhood has enough challenges without having to wonder if the people around you are on your side,” she added. “You deserve to go through motherhood with people who actually, you know, like you.”

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