Hilary Duff's husband had launched a scathing attack on "self-obsessed" Ashley Tisdale

The 38-year-old musician - who has Banks, seven, Mae, four, and Townes, 20 months, with the Lizzie McGuire star and is stepdad to her 13-year-old son Luca from her marriage to Mike Comrie - shared a photo of himself photoshopped onto Ashley's body, dressed in black with pink-tinted sunglasses.

The image was accompanied by The Cut's logo and a fake headline which read: "When You're The Most Self Obsessed Tone Deaf Person On Earth, Other Moms Tend To Shift Focus To Their Actual Toddlers."

It was followed by a sub-heading which read: "A Mom Group Tell All Through A Father's Eyes."

Matthew captioned his Instagram Story post: "Read my new interview with @TheCut."

Before Matthew shared his post, Ashley's representative had denied speculation the singer-and-actress had been talking about Hilary and their famous friends.

According to TMZ, the spokesperson insisted it was "unfortunate" the Clipped actress' words had been "twisted" and there was "zero truth" to suggestions other famous faces were involved.

Ashley - who has Jupiter, four, and Emerson, 16 months, with husband Christopher French - first opened up about her experiences with the mom group in a post on her blog in which she dec lared: "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 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."

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)."