Kaley Cuoco has weighed in on Ashley Tisdale French's viral essay about her former celebrity mum group, which Tisdale described as “toxic.” Speaking on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen on Thursday, the actress offered a blunt response when asked where she stands on the issue as a mother to her two-year-old daughter, Matilda, whom she shares with fiancé Tom Pelphrey.
“I mean, if you don’t like being part of a group, just leave, baby,” Cuoco said. When Cohen interjected, “Like, write an essay about it,” the Big Bang Theory star continued: “You don’t have to do that. Just leave … find a new group.”
Cuoco's comments come after Tisdale detailed “mean girl behaviour” in a Los Angeles-based mum group she was involved in, in an essay published by The Cut last year. While Tisdale did not name the members, she previously appeared in photos with celebrity mothers including Hilary Duff, Mandy Moore and Meghan Trainor.
In the essay, Tisdale, who shares two children with composer Christopher French, wrote that she felt she had “found a village” after the birth of her daughter Jupiter in 2021. But she claimed the dynamic soured when she was “frozen out of the group” and “excluded,” noting she learned of missed gatherings through social media.
The controversy escalated last month when Duff's husband, Matthew Koma, posted a fake magazine cover of himself with a scathing headline about a “mom group tell all.” A representative for Tisdale later told TMZ that her essay was not about her friendships with Moore, Duff and Trainor, but rather aimed to highlight challenges mothers face based on her experience with a different circle of friends.
