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Hilary Duff‘s husband, Matthew Koma, slammed Ashley Tisdale‘s claims about her “toxic” mom group, which targeted his wife and others, including Mandy Moore and Meghan Trainor, in an Instagram Story shared on Tuesday.
After Ashley, 40, shared an essay with The Cut on Monday, accusing her mom group of acting like they were in high school by leaving her out of certain gatherings, Matthew, 38, came to the defense of Hilary, 38, by suggesting Ashley was not only “self-obsessed,” but “tone deaf.”
In a photoshopped version of an image of Ashley in The Cut, Matthew was seen with a made-up headline that read, “When You’re The Most Self Obsessed Tone Deaf Person On Earth, Other Moms Tend To Shift Focus To Their Actual Toddlers,” and featured a description that said, “A Mom Group Tell All Through A Father’s Eyes.”
“Read my new interview with [The Cut],” Matthew captioned the January 6 post.
Also reacting to the drama was Crystal Kung-Minkoff, 42, whose own falling out with 14 friends became a hot topic on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills season 12.
In a message shared on Threads, Crystal gave a nod to Ashley’s essay, revealing that her childhood best friend was included in an image of Ashley and her former friends.
“Me, realizing I wasn’t mentioned in Ashley Tisdale’s ‘losing friends’ article 👀… didn’t I literally start that trend back in 2021? #14friends #rhobh #trendsetter oh and fun fact: my childhood bestie is in that photo!” she wrote on January 5.
As RHOBH fans will recall, Lisa Rinna, 62, mentioned that Crystal had lost friends on an episode of the series years ago. And, in January of last year, on an episode of her podcast, Humble Brag with Crystal and Cynthia, Crystal revealed the truth about what happened, explaining that one of the women was put off by her joining the Bravo show after encouraging her against it.
“An ex-friend of mine wanted to do the show … but her family, particularly her husband, did not want her to do the show,” she revealed. “[And] I, as her friend, said, ‘I think that’s the right decision for you guys not to do it. If he’s not gonna do it, you can’t do the show.’”
After joining the cast herself, Crystal found herself at odds with the unnamed woman.
“I told my friend who wanted to do it. And the conversation, while it wasn’t awful, it wasn’t great. It was as expected. It was, ‘Why is it good enough for you and not me?’” she shared.
Crystal then saw that her mommy and me group had been spending time without her as a result of the tension between them.
“I saw this photo, it broke my heart and I was like, ‘Okay, I’m gonna make it right.’ I sent everyone letters, flowers, every single one. I wanted my friends back. I wrote individual letters to everybody, begging, ‘Whatever I’ve done, whatever I can do as a friend, I won’t even take the show.’ No one responded,” she revealed. “I knew that there was gonna be a narrative in which I did this to her.”
In addition to falling out with her friend group, Crystal recalled being targeted with “lies and negativity.”
“It wasn’t just dropping me. It was, ‘Now we have to destroy her.’ They [even told others], ‘If you talk to her, you’re no longer friends with us,’” she stated.