On a latest episode of “Watch What Occurs Reside,” the “Dancing with the Stars” alum voiced his help for Tisdale, who just lately confronted backlash for calling out her former group of “poisonous” mother pals.

Talking with Andy Cohen on “WWHL,” Efron sprang to Tisdale‘s protection when he was requested concerning the drama she’s been concerned in for the reason that starting of 2026.

“I attempt to keep out of that, so I don’t know an excessive amount of,” Efron stated earlier than sharing fond sentiments about Tisdale, who starred alongside Efron’s brother, Zac, within the “Excessive Faculty Musical” franchise.

“All I do know is, Ashley, since I used to be a child, she’s been so candy to me,” he stated.

Elaborating, Efron praised Tisdale, telling Cohen and the studio viewers that he could not “envision” the “Phineas and Ferb” actress doing something “malicious” to her group of pals.

“Hopefully, it’s only a misunderstanding? I truthfully don’t know what’s occurring, although,” he stated, to which Cohen retorted, calling it “possibly greater than a misunderstanding.”

“Yeah, it’s,” Efron stated. “I truthfully don’t know what occurred. All I can say is she’s been so candy.”

Efron’s help for Tisdale comes weeks after the “Be Good To Me” singer critiqued her “poisonous” group of mother pals in a private essay for The Lower.

Within the piece, Tisdale opened up about craving reference to a gradual group of mothers after giving beginning in the course of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Initially believing she’d discovered her “village,” the mom of two seen a shift in her relationships after discovering she’d been unnoticed of group occasions on quite a few events.

“One other time, at one of many mother’s dinner events, I noticed the place I sat together with her — which was on the finish of the desk, removed from the remainder of the ladies,” Tisdale wrote. “I used to be beginning to really feel frozen out of the group, noticing each means that they appeared to exclude me.”

Later within the essay, Tisdale revealed that she started taking the exclusions personally, resulting in her brief however daring textual content: “That is too highschool for me, and I do not need to participate in it anymore.”

Whereas Tisdale did not identify names in her essay, eagle-eyed web sleuths assumed she was referring to her good friend group, which incorporates A-list celebrities resembling Mandy Moore, Meghan Trainor, and former Disney star Hilary Duff.

Duff hasn’t responded to the claims personally, however her husband, Matthew Koma, has interjected, ridiculing Tisdale in a means nobody noticed coming.

In his Instagram Tales, Koma shared a photograph of himself mimicking Tisdale’s pose on The Lower with a brand new title: “When You are The Most Self Obsessed Tone Deaf Individual On Earth, Different Mothers Have a tendency To Shift Focus To Their Precise Toddlers.”

He doubled down, including, “A Mother Group Inform All Via A Father’s Eyes.”

Koma’s publish didn’t land with social media customers or others within the business, together with “Glee” alum Becca Tobin, who known as Koma a “loser” throughout an episode of the “LadyGang” podcast.