Posted 29 minutes agoWe Have An Apparent Update On The Drama With Ashley Tisdale's "Toxic" Mom Friends After People Speculated That She Was Iced Out Of The Group Over PoliticsAshley revealed that she confronted the moms when she noticed that she was being excluded from group hangouts - and things apparently didn't go down well.by Leyla MohammedBuzzFeed StaffFacebookPinterestLink This week, Ashley Tisdale (aka Ashley French) found herself at the center of online attention after penning an unfiltered essay about being iced out of a "toxic" group of mom friends. Katie Flores / Getty Images In the piece, which was published via The Cut, Ashley - who shares two young daughters with her husband, Christopher French - said she was "brought to tears" after being excluded from group hangouts by the other moms. View this photo on Instagram @ashleytisdalefrench / Via instagram.com "I remember being left out of a couple of group hangs, and I knew about them because Instagram made sure it fed me every single photo and Instagram Story," she wrote in part. "Another time, at one of the mom's dinner parties, I realized where I sat with her - which was at the end of the table, far from the rest of the women. I was starting to feel frozen out of the group, noticing every way that they seemed to exclude me." Robin Marchant / Getty Images Ashley went on to note that she actually confronted the moms via text, writing, "This is too high school for me and I don't want to take part in it anymore." Steve Granitz / Getty Images She recalled, "It didn't exactly go over well. Some of the others tried to smooth things over. One sent flowers, then ignored me when I thanked her for them. Another tried to convince me that everyone assumed I'd been invited to gatherings and just hadn't shown up.""To be clear, I have never considered the moms to be bad people. (Maybe one.) But I do think our group dynamic stopped being healthy and positive - for me, anyway," she added. Immediately, tons of people theorized that Ashley's essay was about fellow celebrities Hilary Duff and Mandy Moore, given that the trio were all publicly part of the same group of "mom friends." View this photo on Instagram @meghantrainor / Via instagram.com The speculation took off even further when eagle-eyed fans noticed that while Ashley was still following some members of the group on Instagram, like Meghan Trainor, she was not following Hilary or Mandy. @meghantrainor / Via instagram.com And amid all the theorizing, some people guessed that the group had fallen out over politics. Bravo / Getty Images But now, a representative for Ashley has purportedly entered the conversation to clear things up. Per E! News, Ashley's rep told TMZ that her unfiltered essay wasn't about Mandy, Hilary, or Meghan. The rep also denied unverified rumors that Ashley is a Republican, instead clarifying that she is a registered Democrat. View this photo on Instagram @ashleytisdalefrench / Via instagram.com BuzzFeed has reached out to Ashley's rep directly for additional comment. Let us know what you think in the comments.