Ashley Tisdale's Mom Group Drama Inspires New Comedy ‘Toxic Moms'

Ashley Tisdale is taking her mom group drama to the small screen.

Deadline reported on Thursday, July 2, that Tisdale, 41, has teamed up with Sabrina Jalees and Ali Wong for Toxic Moms, a comedy series that has landed at Netflix for development.

Toxic Moms, which was written by Jalees, is a half-hour series following a sleep-deprived new mom who crosses paths with a group of wealthy mothers who are revealed to have a darker side. Per Deadline, the logline asks, "In the isolation of motherhood, how far would you go to taste community?"

Tisdale, who is expected to star on the show, will also executive produce alongside Jalees and Wong. Deadline reported that Wong may direct if the comedy gets picked up to series.

Tisdale made headlines in January when she published a bombshell essay with The Cut, titled "Breaking Up With My Toxic Mom Group."

"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," Tisdale wrote at the time. "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."

Fans quickly speculated that Mandy Moore, Hilary Duff, Meghan Trainor and more familiar faces were part of the same friend group. (Tisdale did not ID any individuals in the essay, with her rep stressing that those pals were not the alleged subjects.)

Trainor was the first of the group to address online chatter that she was involved in Tisdale's mom group. After posting videos (with tea emojis) to her social media feed, Trainor exclusively told Us Weekly that she "felt bad" for Tisdale amid the fallout.

"I felt bad that she was ever that sad, and I think it was just a lot of miscommunication and confusion. I don't know what happened, but I wish them all the best," she shared in an April cover story. "Ashley texted me like, ‘I'm sorry, your name got dragged in.' And I was like, ‘It's all right, girl, like, the world's a silly, crazy place, and they just want something to talk about.'"

Despite allegedly being blindsided by the essay, the remaining mom group members wish Tisdale "no ill will," a source told Us in January.

"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," the insider said. "The moms insist there was no ‘mean girl' behavior."

Duff, for her part, spoke out about the drama in February. When asked about the claims that she's part of the friend group, Duff shared, "The women at school are lovely and I'm obsessed with all of them."

"I mean, this is not new for me. I've had this since I was maybe 15 and starting to get followed around by [photographers]," Duff told The Los Angeles Times. "Everything starts getting documented and everyone knows my life and all the players in it. So the stories that get news pickup - it's not what happens to a normal person who maybe became an actor as an adult. And now, it's escalated by the talking heads on TikTok that need clickbait."

Moore, meanwhile, addressed the controversy in May and shared that it was "upsetting" because it "just cuts to the core."

"It's not always like the most comfortable of situations, but I think that's where I sort of differed in feeling like I wouldn't have handled the situation this way," she reflected during an episode of the SiriusXM show Radio Andy. "I think the biggest takeaway from that whole ridiculous debacle … is that I feel like it just sort of it perpetuates this silly trope that women can't be supportive of one another and that we're inherently petty and that we're inherently out to one-up each other, and I have not felt that one iota since becoming a parent."

Moore continued, "I've actually been so surprised by the meaningful relationships I found with other moms and other parents just in general. That has always been my takeaway, and you need that. You need community. You need to find that support wherever you can get it. You need to be able to talk about all of that."

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This story was originally published July 2, 2026 at 1:46 PM.