Meghan Trainor’s husband Daryl Sabara has addressed the drama surrounding Ashley Tisdale French’s mom group.
Approached by TMZ on Thursday, January 8, Sabara brushed off suggestions there was any bad blood on his side after French wrote a viral article for The Cut, criticizing a former friendship group with other moms she was part of.
“No drama over here, just trying to keep the kids happy,” Sabara, 33, told the outlet after he was asked what he thought about the controversy. (Sabara and Trainer share two sons: Riley, 4, and Barry, 2.)
While Sabara brushed off questions about the drama, the Spy Kids star expressed his hope that French’s wellbeing was not impacted.
“I don’t really know what’s going on,” he added. “I hope she’s okay though.”
Earlier on Thursday, Trainor, 32, broke her silence on French’s essay by posting a clip via TikTok.
“Me finding out about the apparent mom group drama,” Trainor wrote in the TikTok video uploaded Thursday, January 8. The short clip showed her sitting at a desk and typing on a computer while her song “Still Don’t Care” played. She captioned the post with three tea emojis.
French caused a stir when she exposed the dynamics of her mom group in a personal essay written for The Cut. In the piece, French called out the group as “toxic” and revealed she ultimately quit the group after feeling ostracised.
She did not mention any of the other moms involved by name, but French frequently documented playdates with Trainor, Mandy Moore and Hilary Duff, each of whom have young children.
“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,” French wrote. “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.”
French described parting ways with the other mom by texting the group that it felt “too high school for me, and I don’t want to take part in it anymore.”
After fans pointed the finger at the famous mom group as being the one French was referencing in the essay, a representative for French denied the speculation in a statement to TMZ on Monday, January 5.
The rep said that French’s “Breaking Up With My Toxic Mom Group” article was written to spotlight a relatable issue for women who have been shut out of a friend group and was not specifically about Trainor, Moore, Duff and the others.
Sabara’s comments come after Duff’s husband Matthew Koma took a swipe at French after the article’s publication earlier this week.
Posting via his Instagram Stories on Tuesday, January 6, Koma, 38, shared his own fictional version of The Cut article.
“A mom group tell-all through a father’s eyes,” Koma’s fictional article read. “When you’re the most self obsessed tone deaf person on earth, other moms tend to shift focus to their actual toddlers.”
