Ashley Tisdale apologised to Meghan Trainor after the singer was "dragged into" the viral toxic mom group saga.

The High School Musical star sparked speculation when she called out "mean-girl behaviour" in a piece for The Cut about cutting ties with some of her friends last year, with fans questioning whether the All About That Bass hitmaker was one of the people Ashley was talking about.

However, Meghan - who has Riley, five, Barry, two, and Mikey, three months, with husband Daryl Sabara - has insisted she wasn't part of the drama because she was such a "bad friend", she hadn't had the time to atttend any meet-ups and so the group had already moved on without her before Ashley allegedly experienced problems.

Asked about the drama, Meghan told Us Weekly magazine: "I was a bad mom friend. I never went. They had so many events; they were awesome and always there for each other.

"There was a group chat, but eventually they started a group chat without me because I wasn't there… and that was totally fine. I didn't feel bad.

"The last time I saw them was like a year ago, and I brought them to dinner and paid for it because I was like, 'I'm so sorry that I'm just not present…'

" And then that [story] popped up, and I was like, 'What?!?'

"I saw my face everywhere, and wait a second, I'm not even there… I saw a TikTok where they were like, 'Well, everyone hates Meghan Trainor right now, so I bet she's the mean one.' And I was like, 'Don't worry, guys.'

"But some moms in that group don't want to be famous and never wanted attention. It was really hard for a lot of moms, and I felt so bad."

Meghan blamed the situation on "miscommunication and confusion" and she was reassuring when Ashley got in touch to express regret that her name had been linked with the saga.

She added: "I felt bad for Ashley, that she was ever that sad. I think it was just a lot of miscommunication and confusion. I don't really know what happened, but I wish them all the best. I texted all of them.

"Ashley texted me, ''I'm sorry, your name got dragged in.'

"And I was like, 'It's all right, girl. The world's a silly, crazy place, and they just want something to talk about.' "

Ashley first discussed leaving her "toxic" group of mom friends in a blog post.

She said: "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."

Ashley explained 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."