Before winning The Traitors in the US, Dynan Efron, who is best known as Zac Efron’s brother, has voiced his opinion on Ashley Tisdale’s mom group drama.
Dylan Efron has thrown support at Ashley Tisdale amid her “toxic mom group” drama. The reality star, 33, whose older brother Zac Efron famously starred opposite Ashley in the Disney Channel’s runaway hit High School Musical, spoke out after the actress published an essay in which she alleged that she had fallen out with a group of celebrity moms she once considered close friends.
In the essay, Ashley, who has daughters Jupiter, four, and fourth-month-old Emmerson with her husband Christopher French, wrote in The Cut that she initially thought she had “found her village” with the group before it all went wrong and she started to feel left out when she found out on Instagram that they had been meeting up without her.
She said: “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.
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I initially made an effort to avoid taking things personally. It’s not like I’m forbidden to get together without me, and there might be other, perfectly legitimate reasons I wasn’t invited.
Traitors star Dylan, who would have been in his early teens when his brother became famous, has insisted that he just makes a point of trying to “stay out” of it all, but that because he has known Ashley for so long, he can’t imagine her”doing anything malicious to warrant this kind of fallout.
Dylan said to Andy Cohen during a television interview: “I try to stay away from that, so I don’t know too much.” Ashley is the only person I’ve known since I was a child because of how sweet she has always been to me. So I don’t see her abusing the mother group in any way. Hopefully, there was no miscommunication. But I really don’t know what’s happening.
Before Dylan added, “I honestly don’t know what happened,” Andy responded, “It seems, maybe more like a misunderstanding. She’s been so sweet, I can’t even say that. Ashley and Zac played basketball captain Troy Bolton in High School Musical, which just celebrated its 20th anniversary.
They reprised their roles for two more films, and the format was then retooled into High School Musical: The Musical: The Series, which made stars out of Olivia Rodrigo and Joshua Bassett over the course of its four-season run.
In the 2000s, Ashley was also known for starring as Maddie Fitzpatrick on The Suite Life of Zack and Cody, around the same time Miley Cyrus found global success with fellow Disney sitcom Hannah Montana, and Raven-Symone headed up That’s So Raven for the network.
Meanwhile, Dylan has found fame in his own right in recent years, mostly in the field of reality television, having won the third season of the US version of The Traitors and then gone on to compete on Dancing with the Stars.
In her essay, Ashley, who had previously mentioned her friendship with Lizzie McGuire star Hilary Duff and pop star Meghan Trainor, wrote, “Here’s the thing nobody prepared me for: Mom groups can turn toxic. The dynamic shifts into an ugly place with mean-girl behavior, not because the mothers themselves are toxic. This is something I’ve personally experienced.
“I can recall being cut out of a few group hangs, but Instagram kept track of it because it had access to every photo and Instagram Story.
“Another time, at one of the mothers’ dinner parties, I realized where I sat with her, which was far from the other women’s tables. I was starting to feel isolated from the group, and I was starting to notice how they all seemed to exclude me.
Source: Mirror
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