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Daryl Sabara is denying that there’s any drama between his wife Meghan Trainor and Ashley Tisdale French after the former Disney star’s essay for The Cut went viral.
The Spy Kids alum, 33, spoke with TMZ and said there’s no feud on his and Trainor’s part with Tisdale French, adding that the couple is instead trying to focus on their two kids — Barry, 2, and Riley, 4½. Trainor is allegedly a member of Tisdale French’s former friend group, whom she writes about leaving due to “toxic” behavior in her essay.
“No drama over here, just trying to keep the kids happy, you know?” Sabara told TMZ.
The dad of two also said he hopes that Tisdale French is doing okay after her essay on leaving her “toxic” mom group took the Internet by storm.
“I don’t really know what’s going on,” he said. “I hope [Tisdale French is] okay, though.”
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On Thursday, Jan. 8, Trainor broke her silence on the topic, sharing a video on her TikTok and commenting for the first time on the situation.
“Me finding out about the apparent mom group drama,” Trainor wrote across a video, which included a clip of her sitting at her computer. The mom of two could be seen typing and looking animatedly at her screen, appearing shocked. The video was set to her new single, “Still Don’t Care,” off her upcoming album Toy with Me (out April 24).
“☕️☕️☕️ #stilldontcare,” Trainor wrote in her caption.
Tisdale French, 40, originally shared her story as a blog post in November 2025, and it was later published in The Cut on Jan. 1.
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In her viral essay, Tisdale French, who shares her two children, Emerson, 15 months, and Jupiter, 4, with her husband Christopher French, revealed that she’d left her mom friend group last year after experiencing behavior that made her feel like she was back in high school. The actress wrote that she initially “felt lucky” to find a group of women going through the same feelings as her.
Although she wrote she initially felt like she “found my village,” Tisdale French started sensing a distance between herself and the other moms. She said she was getting invited to things less and less and was even excluded from an event that the other moms planned at her daughter’s birthday party. She noted that she started to feel like she wasn’t cool enough to be in the group and felt like she was in high school again.
While she did not name the women from her former friend group in her essay, fans quickly zeroed in on past photos showing her spending time with a group that included Gaby Dalkin, Hilary Duff, Trainor, Mandy Moore and others.
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Although Moore and Duff have yet to respond, Duff’s husband, Matthew Koma, seemingly responded by posting a photo of himself in the same position as the photo of Tisdale French for her story with The Cut. In the picture, he was seen sitting on a couch next to a houseplant, while wearing an all-black outfit paired with rose-tinted lensed sunglasses on his Instagram Stories on Tuesday, Jan. 6.
Koma added The Cut’s logo and a fictional headline to the photo, which read “When You’re The Most Self Obsessed Tone Deaf Person On Earth, Other Moms Tend To Shift Focus To Their Actual Toddlers,” with a sub-headline that read, “A Mom Group Tell All Through A Father’s Eyes.”
“Read my new interview with @TheCut,” Koma captioned the Instagram Stories post.
When the drama began to go viral, a source told PEOPLE that the mom group drama stemmed from a “misalignment of values.”
“It was a misalignment of values that Ashley decided to make public,” a source close to the group told PEOPLE exclusively. “Friends naturally drift apart. It didn’t warrant a dramatic breakup text.”
