Mandy Moore Feels 'Exceedingly Lucky' Her Kids Can Spend Time with Her Friends with Similar Values amid Mom Group Drama
- - Mandy Moore Feels 'Exceedingly Lucky' Her Kids Can Spend Time with Her Friends with Similar Values amid Mom Group Drama
Hannah SacksFebruary 18, 2026 at 1:44 AM
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Mandy Moore is opening up about her friendship with Hilary Duff
The actress said she feels "exceedingly lucky" that her kids can spend time with Duff and her family
Moore's comments come a few weeks after Ashley Tisdale French published her viral essay on mom group drama with The Cut, which was allegedly about Moore and Duff's friends
Mandy Moore is sharing some insight into her friendship with Hilary Duff.
In a cover story on Duff for Glamour, the This Is Us star, 41, spoke about the pair's close friendship. The two grew close after a chance meeting in 2018, and Moore told the outlet that she feels fortunate her kids get to spend time around Duff and her family.
"I feel exceedingly lucky that my kids happen to spend time with people that I feel like our values are aligned with," said Moore. "The friends that I've made since becoming a parent are some of the deeper, more surprising friendships I've found as an adult."
Moore shares her three kids — Gus, Ozzie and Lou — with her husband Taylor Goldsmith.
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The This Is Us alum's comments come after Ashley Tisdale French's viral essay for The Cut on "toxic" mom group drama made waves, which was allegedly about Moore and Duff's friend group.
"If a mom group consistently leaves you feeling hurt, drained or left out, it’s not the mom group for you," Tisdale French wrote in her Jan. 5 essay, titled "Breaking Up with My Toxic Mom Group." "Choosing to step away doesn’t make you mean or judgmental. It makes you honest with yourself. It’s also worth remembering that friendships, like all relationships, have seasons."
"If a mom group consistently leaves you feeling hurt, drained or left out, it’s not the mom group for you," she said. "Choosing to step away doesn’t make you mean or judgmental. It makes you honest with yourself. It’s also worth remembering that friendships, like all relationships, have seasons."
After the essay went viral, sources around Tisdale French and her former mom group have shed light on the real reasons behind their falling-out.
“It was a misalignment of values that Ashley decided to make public," a source close to the group told PEOPLE exclusively. "Friends naturally drift apart. It didn’t warrant a dramatic breakup text."
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A second source said Tisdale French had been feeling a "disconnect" with the group in the months before she left.
"Ashley put this out there because [she wants people to know] toxic behavior is not acceptable," said the source, adding that "this is blowing up in the craziest way."
Although Moore and Duff have yet to publicly comment on Tisdale French's essay, Duff's husband, Matthew Koma, 38, alluded to the essay with a photo of himself photoshopped onto Tisdale French's body. In the photo, he was seen sitting on a couch next to a houseplant, while wearing an all-black outfit paired with rose-tinted lensed sunglasses on his Instagram Story.
Koma added The Cut's logo and a fictional headline to the photo, which read "When You're The Most Self Obsessed Tone Deaf Person On Earth, Other Moms Tend To Shift Focus To Their Actual Toddlers," with a sub-headline that read, "A Mom Group Tell All Through A Father's Eyes."
"Read my new interview with @TheCut," Koma captioned the Instagram Story post.
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