The Disney Channel alum wrote a personal essay about her mom group drama for “The Cut” earlier this year.

Ashley Tisdale putting her real-life drama to work in comedy series Toxic Moms

The Disney Channel alum wrote a personal essay about her mom group drama for "The Cut" earlier this year.

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- Ashley Tisdale's mom group drama will be getting the Netflix treatment for the upcoming comedy series *Toxic Moms*.

- Per Deadline, the show follows a "sleep-deprived new mom who’s drawn into a clique of cool, wealthy mothers."

- Tisdale penned a candid essay for *The Cut *in January about stepping away from her mom group that had fans speculating who she was talking about.

Life might be imitating art for Ashley Tisdale.

The *High School Musical *alum, who was recently involved with mom group drama that took the internet by storm, will be starring in a television show called — you guessed it — *Toxic Moms*. The comedy series, which also stars Ali Wong and Sabrina Jalees, has found a home at Netflix, Deadline reported.

The dark comedy, with episodes expected to run 30 minutes, follows "a sleep-deprived new mom who’s drawn into a clique of cool, wealthy mothers," per Deadline. "But when the group reveals its darker side, the series asks: in the isolation of motherhood, how far would you go to taste community?"

Sabrina Jalees; Ali Wong.

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Deadline adds that the show is "informed by Tisdale’s experience as a mom of two young children," and "based on an original idea."

Tisdale shared the show announcement on Instagram, captioning the post: "I guess we all can be a little toxic."

* *reached out to Netflix for comment and did not receive an immediate response.

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The show *Toxic Moms *is based on *The Cut *essay that Tisdale wrote in January, titled, "Breaking Up with My Toxic Mom Group." Tisdale wrote that she found her "village" with a group of women who could understand what she was going through as a mom — women she could commiserate and bond with over raising kids, where she "felt a sense of belonging."

However, things soured between her and the rest of the group after she realized they made plans without her and found out after the fact on social media.

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"I was starting to feel frozen out of the group, noticing every way that they seemed to exclude me," wrote Tisdale. "At first, I tried not to take things personally. It’s not like people aren’t allowed to get together without me — and maybe there were perfectly good reasons that I hadn’t been invited."

She continued, "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 ultimately made the decision to step away from the group, sending a text that things had become "too high school" and she didn't want to take part in it anymore.

"To be clear, I never considered the moms to be bad people. (Maybe one.)," she wrote. "But I do think our group dynamic stopped being healthy and positive — for me anyway."

Ashley Tisdale at the world premiere of 'Phineas and Ferb' in Hollywood in May 2025.

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Fans began to speculate who Tisdale was referring to in her explosive essay. A rep for Tisdale told TMZ at the time that there was "zero truth" to theories swirling online that Tisdale was referring to Mandy Moore, Hilary Duff, or Meghan Trainor after pictures of them hanging together in recent years began to surface.

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