Meghan Trainor has nothing but praise for Hilary Duff and the “best people” in their mom group.
Taking to Instagram on Thursday, July 16, Trainor, 32, shared a carousel of photos featuring the friendship group who were out in force as Duff, 38, performed on The Lucky Me Tour this month.
“@hilaryduff thank u for the best concert with the best people💗,” Trainor gushed in the post’s caption.
The photos and video were captured at night two of the Los Angeles leg of the tour. Mom group member, What’s Gaby Cooking author Gaby Dalkin, also shared posts of the night out earlier this month.
“Stage mom-ing so hard!!!” Dalkin captioned a group photo of Duff’s longtime mom crew via her Instagram Story on July 9. “We love you @hilaryduff.”
The group snap featured Trainor, Dalkin, Mandy Moore, hairstylist Barb Thompson, artist Amanda (Kaplan) Lillywhite, Muu by Better Babies, Inc. founder Janice Gott, makeup artist Kelsey Deenihan Fisher and beauty and skincare guru Whitney Wagner Hartley.
The mom group’s outing comes after a spotlight was placed on Trainor and Duff’s respective friendship dynamics in January when Ashley Tisdale French wrote a personal essay for The Cut as well as a Substack post.
In the piece, the High School Musical star, 41, blasted a “toxic” mom group she was forced to walk away from after feeling ostracized.
While she didn’t name any of the other moms involved in the group, many of her fans believed it to be the group she shared with other celebrity moms, such as Trainor, Duff and Moore. (Tisdale French’s representative denied this at the time.)
“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,” Tisdale 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.”
Tisdale French described texting the group and telling them she was leaving because the group felt “too high school for me, and I don’t want to take part in it anymore.”
Duff weighed in the following month during an appearance on the “Call Her Daddy” podcast.
The Lizzie McGuire alum claimed people didn’t have to “connect very many dots” to figure out which mom group Tisdale French was referring to.
“I felt really sad. I honestly felt really sad. I was pretty, pretty taken aback and felt just sad,” Duff, said of Tisdale French’s comments. “I have so many groups of friends. I’m so lucky.”
She added, “It sucks to read something that’s not true, and it sucks on behalf of six women and all of their lives.”
Meanwhile, Trainor distanced herself from the drama, insisting on social media she wasn’t involved.
In April, the singer exclusively told Us Weekly that there was no bad blood between her and Tisdale French after the saga made headlines.
“I felt bad for Ashley,” Trainor told Us at the time. “I felt bad that she was ever that sad, and I think it was just a lot of miscommunication and confusion. I don’t know what happened, but I wish them all the best.”
The Grammy winner also detailed the text exchange between her and Tisdale French after the drama blew up.
“I texted all of them,” Trainor recalled to Us. “Ashley texted me like, ‘I’m sorry, your name got dragged in.’ And I was like, ‘It’s all right, girl, like, the world’s a silly, crazy place, and they just want something to talk about.’”
