Meghan Trainor has made it abundantly clear that she wants to steer clear of any association with Ashley Tisdale’s so-called “toxic mom group.” The singer, known for her hit “All About That Bass,” took to social media to address this issue head-on.

The Grammy-winning musical artist, 32, posted a clip to TikTok on Monday in which she repurposed a line from Stranger Things to further communicate her distance from Tisdale, 40, and the ‘toxic mom group’ that’s made headlines in the new year.

In a video shared by Trainor, a clip from a character named Holly Wheeler, portrayed by Nell Fisher, plays out. In the scene, Wheeler desperately tries to convince a group of children that their imaginary friend, Mr. Whatsit, is actually a monster. She pleads, “Come on, you have to believe me! Please, you have to believe me, you have to believe me.”

Accompanying this video, Trainor, originally from Nantucket, Massachusetts, humorously added her own caption: “Me still trying to convince everyone I’m not involved in the mom group drama… I swear I’m innocent.”

Trainor further clarified that she was talking about the topic at hand in text on the clip and in the caption.

Trainor’s attempt to distance herself from the drama seemed to resonate with her TikTok audience, who quickly took to the comments to express their opinions. One user didn’t mince words, stating, “Saw it was Ashley Tisdale and didn’t need to hear another word. It was definitely her.”

Meghan Trainor, 32, made clear she wants no part of Ashley Tisdale’s toxic mom group in a TikTok clip she posted Monday 

The Grammy-winning musical artist repurposed a line from Stranger Things to further communicate her distance

Trainor’s declaration of innocence in the matter appeared to be landing with Tiktok users who left replies in the comment section of the post.

Said one commenter: ‘Saw it was Ashley Tisdale and didn’t need to hear another word. It was definitely her.’

Another added, ‘You’re the nicest sweetest mom ever,’ while another said, ‘Honestly, I believe Meghan Trainor more than Ashley Tisdale.

‘I don’t know about the others, but this totally doesn’t seem like something she would be apart of (at least knowingly apart of)

Others on the social media platform commented on the absurdity of the situation in general.

‘This is too high school for me I’m done participating,’ said one user, while another added, ‘This mom group drama is so hilarious.’

One user also made a Stranger Things reference in regard to the situation, saying, 

Trainor previously shared her reaction to the ‘toxic mom group’ drama amid claims she was part of the friends circle Ashley Tisdale slammed in her viral essay.

Trainor’s declaration of innocence in the matter appeared to be landing with Tiktok users who left replies in the comment section of the post

Meghan Trainor has shared her reaction to the ‘toxic mom group’ drama amid rumors she was part of the friends circle Ashley Tisdale slammed in her viral essay

Tisdale, 40, who has two daughters named Jupiter, four, and Emerson, 16 months, wrote that she felt excluded from the clique during her latest postpartum period.

The High School Musical star refrained from naming any of the other women, resulting in a whirlwind of conjecture about who they might be.

Fans quickly noticed that in years past, she had gushed about her ‘village of moms,’ a claque of fellow mothers including Mandy Moore, Hilary Duff and Trainor.

Pouring fuel on the fire, Tisdale unfollowed both Moore and Duff on Instagram shortly before her bombshell essay was published in The Cut.

Now, as a cloud of speculation continues to gather over her and her friends, Trainor, 32, has uploaded a TikTok giving her response to the unfolding controversy.

She posted a clip of herself wide-eyed with concern as she sat at the computer, with the caption: ‘me finding out about the apparent mom group drama.’

Notably, although Tisdale has unfollowed Moore and Duff on Instagram, she still follows Trainor on the platform – although Trainor does not follow her back. 

Tisdale shares both of her children with her composer husband Christopher French, whom she married in 2014 after a two-year romance.

Meanwhile Trainor has two sons called Riley, four, and Barry, two, with her husband Daryl Sabara – who has also responded publicly to the ‘mom group’ fracas.

Hilary Duff (center right) once posted a selfie that Trainor (right) took of the mom group, which included that also included Tisdale (left) and Mandy Moore

Tisdale, 40, who has two daughters called Jupiter, four, and Emerson, 16 months, wrote that she felt excluded from the clique during her latest postpartum period 

When he was asked about the ‘drama,’ he replied: ‘No drama over here, just trying to keep the kids happy,’ during an interview with TMZ.

Sabara was prodded further about Tisdale and doubled down on his stance, saying: ‘I don’t really know what’s going on. I hope she’s okay, though.’

Tisdale had praised her ‘village of moms’ after her first child was born in 2021, and the following year she effused about a weekend getaway with Duff and Trainor, writing: ‘What an amazing group of women to journey through this mom-hood together!’

Last January she waxed rhapsodic about how her ‘mom group’ rallied around each other amid the Los Angeles wildfires, which consumed Moore’s home, forcing her and her family to temporarily move in with Duff.

‘The amount of people checking in with each other is so amazing,’ Tisdale wrote on social media, tagging friends including Moore, Duff and Trainor. ‘You realize in dark moments you have each other. The human connection is not lost. Shout out to the mom group that’s there in the highs and the lows.’

However last week on New Year’s Day, her essay Breaking Up With My Toxic Mom Group was published in The Cut and made a splash around social media.

In the article – which was an elaboration on a blog post she shared in November – she wrote that the other women began to get together without inviting her, leaving her to find evidence of the ‘group hangs’ on Instagram afterwards.

‘It took me back to an unpleasant but familiar feeling I thought I’d left behind years ago,’ she wrote. ‘Here I was sitting alone one night after getting my daughter to bed thinking Maybe I’m not cool enough? All of a sudden I was in high school again, feeling totally lost as to what I was doing “wrong” to be left out.’

In years past, Tisdale (second from left) had gushed about her friend group of fellow mothers including Mandy Moore, Hilary Duff (fourth from right) and Trainor (second from right)

Tisdale shares both of her children with her composer husband Christopher French; the family are pictured last September during their younger daughter’s first trip to Disneyland

Meanwhile Trainor also has two children called Riley, four, and Barry, two, with her husband Daryl Sabara – who has also responded publicly to the ‘mom group’ fracas 

She clarified that she ‘never considered the moms to be bad people (maybe one),’ but that ‘our group dynamic stopped being healthy and positive – for me anyway.’ 

One particular gathering that she was left out of proved to be the final straw for Tisdale, who sent the group a text announcing her exit.

‘This is too high school for me and I don’t want to take part in it anymore,’ she wrote in the message, according to her new essay.

Shortly after Tisdale’s article was published, Duff’s husband Matthew Koma responded by posting a parody mock-up of a Cut headline that read: ‘A Mom Group Tell All Through A Father’s Eyes: When You’re The Most Self Obsessed Tone Deaf Person On Earth, Other Moms Tend To Shift Focus To Their Actual Toddlers.’

Hours later, Moore posted to social media calling Koma ‘one of the most talented and generous humans I’m lucky to know,’ pointing out that he ‘literally gave my family a place to stay one year ago today when we evacuated.’ 

Sabara, who is pictured with his wife in November, was asked about the Tisdale ‘drama’ and replied: ‘No drama over here, just trying to keep the kids happy,’ during an interview with TMZ 

Shortly after Tisdale’s article was published, Duff’s husband Matthew Koma responded by posting a parody mock-up of a Cut headline calling Tisdale ‘tone deaf’ and ‘self obsessed’ 

Rumors have been circulating about why Tisdale might have been frozen out of the group – with one strain of speculation saying the break could have resulted from her social media posts about Charlie Kirk’s assassination last September.

Tisdale had contrasted the reactions to the murder with the response to 9/11, writing: ‘Where we once were united and grieving together as a country, today we see someone die and blame his politics and opinions. Everyone in that building had different views and opinions, when we stop caring about loss of life we are done.’

Her post was met with liberal outrage online, prompting her to fire back in her defense: ‘It shouldn’t be controversial to say this, but even when we disagree or find someone’s views offensive, violence is never the answer.’

Tisdale noted that she was ‘for equal rights for everyone – women’s rights, voting rights, LGBTQ+ rights,’ as well as for gun control and ‘reproductive rights.’

She appeared to be delineating a divide between her views and those of the late Kirk, a Christian conservative who was firmly opposed to abortion, gay marriage and various trans causes as well as being a fierce advocate of gun rights. However one source has responded to the conjecture about Tisdale’s isolation from the group by saying: ‘It’s a myriad of things, not just one specific,’ via Page Six.