Ashley Tisdale’s last photo with her former mom group, which she recently branded “toxic,” showed happy and supportive women — or so it seemed.
Janice Gott, the founder of a discreet silicone breast pump company called Muu, gushed over Tisdale and their tight-knit circle of parent pals in December 2024.
“I wish I had more photos with all the friends and like… my husband LOL but the point of this post is to say there is nothing like mom friends, or a husband who tells you to quit your career so you can build the other one that’s burning an idea in your brain, and then doing it so you can have a pound of caviar on a Thursday morning bc you said so 😇,” Gott, who was pregnant at the time, captioned an Instagram carousel featuring pictures and videos from a work function.
Gott signed off, “Now I shall have this baby!”
Tisdale commented, “You are incredible!!,” which Gott “liked.” They both still follow each other.
However, the actress, 40, unfollowed other members of the group — including Hilary Duff, Mandy Moore and clothing designer Samii Ryan — sometime after their last outing together. (Notably, she still follows Meghan Trainor.)
In it, she described feeling “not cool enough” after being excluded from some of the group’s hangouts and wondering “what [she] was doing ‘wrong’ to be left out.”
Eventually, the “High School Musical” star texted the group, “This is too high school for me and I don’t want to take part in it anymore.”
Although she “never considered the moms to be bad people [except for] maybe one,” she chose to cut ties with them after the “dynamic stopped being healthy and positive.”
