Chelsea Handler defends Mandy Moore against Ashley Tisdale’s mom-group claims

Chelsea Handler defended her “wonderful” and “sweet” friend Mandy Moore after Ashley Tisdale’s viral “toxic” mom group essay.

The comedian appeared on Page Six Radio Wednesday where co-hosts Danny Murphy and Evan Real filled her in on all the tea going on with the celeb group, which also includes stars Hilary Duff and Meghan Trainor.

“I have no idea what went on, but I know Mandy Moore and she’s a wonderful, sweet person,” Handler said. “So I’ll just say that. But I don’t really know Ashley Tisdale.”

“And I don’t say it with disdain in the way I just said it,” she insisted. “But I don’t know Ashley Tisdale so I would like to be transparent. And I do like Meghan Trainor as well.”

Handler also made it clear that she is a fan of Duff.

“I like when Hilary Duff is in a story. I’m not sure why. I’m attracted to storylines with her in them.”

When Real brought up speculation that the fallout was allegedly due to the mom group being Democrats while Tisdale is a Republican, Handler, 50, simply said, “Well there you go. That’s all I needed to know.”

Handler noted that she’s “never been part of a mom group” and “it sounds awful.”

“That’s another reason not to have children,” she quipped. “To have to deal with that s—t.”

“You’re out of school, you’re a mother and you have to deal with that dynamic and being excluded again as an adult woman. No thank you.”

Tisdale ignited the mama-drama when she wrote a scathing essay for The Cut published Jan. 1, where she claimed she was constantly excluded from group hangouts and ultimately decided to leave the friend group because it was “too high school” for her.

Tisdale, who shares daughters Jupiter, 4, and Emerson, 1, with husband Christopher French, divulged that the experience left her feeling “drained” in a subsequent personal blog post.

The former Disney Channel star did not name any of the moms she accused of “mean girl behavior,” but appeared to unfollow Duff, 38, and Moore, 41, on Instagram — although she does still follow Trainor, 32.

Duff’s husband seemingly confirmed that Tisdale was dissing his wife and her friend group on Tuesday when he took to his Instagram Story with a fake mocked-up cover of himself on the cover of New York Magazine’s The Cut.

His fake headline 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.”

He added in a sarcastic caption, “Read my new interview with @thecut.”

And member of the mom group herself, clothing designer Sami Ryan, also seemingly responded to Tisdale’s essay with a pointed social media post on Tuesday.

She reposted a clip of a man opening a door while lip syncing the words to Megan Thee Stallion’s “Her,” which includes the lyrics: “I don’t care if these bitches don’t like me, ’cause, like, I’m pretty as f–k.”

A rep for Tisdale has not returned Page Six’s numerous requests for comment.