Ashley Tisdale’s husband, Christopher French, is speaking out for the first time since her viral essay for The Cut about leaving a toxic mom group. In an interview with Page Six, French said the couple is doing well and praised his wife as“super smart”and“capable,”adding that he doesn’t need to speak for her because she knows what she’s doing. The essay, published in January, described being excluded from plans and dealing with mean girl behavior in a group she joined after her first child was born in 2021.
The drama escalated when Hilary Duff publicly disputed Tisdale’s account on a podcast, and the group has been linked to Mandy Moore and Meghan Trainor, though none of those connections have ever been confirmed. French addressed the pushback with a simple line about how it“sucks to read something that’s not true,”which fans have been analyzing ever since.
Beyond the friendship fallout, Tisdale also opened up on French’s Recovering podcast about her experience with postpartum depression and how her usual coping tools stopped working. French described it as a common but illogical struggle, bringing a much deeper layer to a story that started as pure celebrity gossip.
What do you think about how French handled the situation? Should spouses weigh in on public drama or stay out of it?
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