Hilary Duff’s former How I Met Your Father costar Francia Raisa has entered the chat.
Raisa, 37, shared a humorous video via TikTok and Instagram on Thursday, January 8, weighing in on the mom group drama fueled by a recent essay that Ashley Tisdale French wrote for The Cut.
In the video, Raisa can be seen sitting in a car scrolling through her phone as she lip-synchs to a line by Amanda Bynes’ character Viola Hastings from the movie She’s the Man.
“Speaking as a completely objective third-party outsider with absolutely no personal interest in the matter, I am not sure that you and Olivia really mesh well together,” the actress mouthed along to an audio clip of Bynes’ dialogue from the movie. (In the scene, Bynes’ character tries to convince Channing Tatum’s hunky soccer player character, Duke Orsino, not to pursue her love rival, Olivia Lennox, played by Laura Ramsey.)
Raisa captioned the video, “Not a mom but… #fyp #thecut.”
Raisa and Duff, 38, played best friends in Hulu’s brief How I Met Your Mother spinoff, which aired for two seasons from 2021 to 2023 before being canceled.
Duff and other stars, including Mandy Moore and Meghan Trainor, have found themselves the subjects of much social media speculation over the last week after High School Musical star Tisdale French, 40, “exposed” a group of toxic mom friends. Tisdale French did not single out anyone by name, but she has in the past documented playdates with Duff and company, all of whom have young children like her. (Tisdale French has two daughters with husband Christopher French.)
In the piece, Tisdale French described the increasingly hostile dynamic between her and her other mom friends, prompting her to part ways with the group.
“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 a January 1 essay for The Cut. “I was starting to feel frozen out of the group, noticing every way that they seemed to exclude me. … I told myself it was all in my head, and it wasn’t a big deal. And yet, 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.”
The actress said she left the group after texting the other women that it felt “too high school for me, and I don’t want to take part in it anymore.”
On Monday, January 5, Tisdale French’s representative denied to TMZ that the article was related to Duff, Moore and Trainor.
Earlier on Thursday, Trainor, 32, weighed in on the drama with a pointed TikTok video of her own.
“Me finding out about the apparent mom group drama,” the singer wrote over a video of her sitting at a desk and typing on a computer. Fittingly, the video was set to the tune of her song “Still Don’t Care.”
Trainor’s husband, Daryl Sabara, meanwhile, told TMZ on Thursday, “No drama over here, just trying to keep the kids happy.”
The Spy Kids actor, who shares sons Riley, 4, and Barry, 2, with Trainor continued, “I don’t really know what’s going on.”
“I hope she’s OK, though,” he added, referring to Tisdale French.
