Toxic Moms: Ashley Tisdale’s new Netflix comedy inspired by viral mom essay

Ashley Tisdale has created a comedy called Toxic Moms – six months after her now-viral “Breaking Up with My Toxic Mom Group” essay was published.

The 41-year-old star’s project, inspired by her experience of being a mum to daughters Jupiter, 5, and Emerson, 20 months, is in development at Netflix, with actors and comedians Ali Wong, 44, and Sabrina Jalees, 41, attached to the show, according to Deadline.

Toxic Moms, penned by Jalees, is described as a 30-minute comedy about a mother who meets a rich group of mums.

But when their dark side begins to be revealed, the show will test how far the main character will go to experience community.

Deadline also reports that High School Musical alum Tisdale – who has Jupiter and Emerson with her 44-year-old husband, composer Christopher French – Mating Season’s Jalees, and Beef cast member Wong will executive-produce Toxic Moms, with the latter directing if it goes to a series.

Tisdale took to Instagram on Friday and posted a screenshot of Deadline’s article about Toxic Moms, with the caption: “I guess we all can be a little toxic”.

Toxic Moms comes six months after Tisdale called out “mean-girl behaviour” from her “toxic mom group” in an essay for The Cut, which sparked speculation she was referring to actor Hilary Duff, 38, and singers Mandy Moore, 42, and Meghan Trainor, 32.

Tisdale’s representative had shut down speculation the Scary Movie 5 actor had been talking about Duff and their famous pals, telling TMZ it is “unfortunate” that her words had been “twisted” and there was “zero truth” to suggestions other celebrities were involved.

The singer first opened up about her experiences with the mothers’ group in a post on her blog in which she declared: “Here’s the thing nobody prepared me for: Mom groups can turn toxic.

“Not because the moms themselves are toxic people, but because the dynamic shifts into an ugly place with mean-girl behaviour. I know this from personal experience.”

Tisdale said there were group text chains that “didn’t include everyone” and there were “hangouts” she didn’t get invited to.

In her essay for The Cut, she went on to open up about how she started to feel “excluded”, writing: “I was certain that I’d found my village.

“But over time, I began to wonder whether that was really true. 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.

“Another time, at one of the mom’s dinner parties, I realised 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.”

The blonde beauty addressed speculation about her original blog post in the essay, calling out “online sleuths” for attempting to figure out the identities of the women involved.

She wrote: “It’s one [topic] that has also made wannabe online sleuths try to do some investigating like they’re on CSI (please, don’t even try – whatever you think is true isn’t even close).”