Ashley Tisdale's mom group essay drama, explained

Another day, another name dropped into the Ashley Tisdale French toxic mom group equation.

Several weeks after the "High School Musical Star" penned an essay in The Cut describing her exodus from what she characterized as a mom group with "toxic" bullying tendencies, "Real Housewives" alum Crystal Minkoff is claiming to know some of the members.

Minkoff's admission, during an episode of her "Humble Brag" podcast, comes in the wake of a tidal wave of online debate over whether Tisdale's article was a hit piece, authored by an oblivious and disgruntled one-time member of a friend group, or a legitimate battle cry for young moms pushing for a healthier way to relate to one another.

Here's what you need (well, maybe not need, but want) to know.

Ashley Tisdale essay alleges 'toxic' mom group, mean-girl behavior

While Tisdale's original essay stopped short of naming the women who belonged to the group, and claimed she thought most of them were not bad people, her story painted a picture of high school-style bullying aimed at leaving her out.

Tisdale said the mom support group was assembled by a friend, who had a slew of other pals who recently became mothers. The actress gushed that she felt "energized" and a "sense of belonging" through being around fellow working mothers who had achieved "finding the balance between fulfilling work and family life."

But she said she began noticed the members would often leave her out, planning group hangouts and intentionally not extending an invite.

"It seemed that this group had a pattern of leaving someone out. And that someone had become me," she wrote.

The actress insisted, however, that the story wasn't about revealing her own axe to grind, but about uplifting the voices of other women who had struggled with something similar.

"From the feedback I've received since I started talking about this, I now know I'm far from the only mother who's been brought to tears by members of a group that's supposed to lift everyone up," she wrote.

Hilary Duff's husband shades Ashley Tisdale amid mom drama

Many had assumed Tisdale was referencing a group with Hilary Duff, Mandy Moore and Meghan Trainor, among others.

Despite claims from Tisdale's publicist after the publication of the essay that speculation around who belonged to the mom group was false, Duff's husband weighed in earlier this month, seemingly confirming online theories.

Duff's partner, Mathew Koma, hit back at French, parodying her cover for The Cut on Instagram but replacing the headline with: "When You're The Most Self-Obsessed Tone Deaf Person On Earth, Other Moms Tend To Shift Focus To Their Actual Toddlers."

Meghan Trainor breaks silence on mom group drama

Trainor also responded on TikTok, though didn't make her position clear. Captioning a video of her reading madly on the internet, "me finding out about the apparent mom group drama," the singer set the post to her own song "Still Don't Care."

Crystal Minkoff wades into Ashley Tisdale mom drama

During a Jan. 12 episode of her podcast, the "Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" star said she already had experience with the "toxic" moms French was referencing.

"I know, probably, 70% of the mom group because we all went to preschool together. We're all the same group," Minkoff said. "One went to the same high school as us."

Minkoff said, "Everyone's talking about it." Though Minkoff said she didn't "want to give too much tea about it because it's their personal stuff," she said she "found it really interesting."

"I posted on Threads the other day a joke, like, 'Oh, this is so 2021, I already went through this.'" Minkoff went on to say that when she joined the cast of "RHOBH" she was booted from the group.

"What I found interesting is that Ashley's story was that she left the group, and my story is I didn't leave the group," she said. "They all went against me and dropped me." Minkoff clarified that she felt conflicted about the situation, knowing some of the women in the group and not knowing Tisdale, and added that she could relate to both sides.