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Millions of eyes are on a group of influencer moms known as the "Wolfpack" after one member, Rachel Graham, stated that she is no longer friends with the others
In a viral TikTok shared on Dec. 3, Graham said that she was no longer friends with fellow creators Meaghan Mattei, Mandi (also known as @whatmandi) and Gina (@hotgina1)
After Graham recounted her side of the story, viewers have taken sides, and both Mandi and Gina have followed up with response videos of their own
Drama between a group of influencers has gone viral after one of the women detailed why she hasn't been spending time with her former friends.
On Wednesday, Dec. 3, content creator Rachel Graham posteda lengthy tell-all to TikTokto explain why she is no longer friends with fellow influencersMeaghan Mattei, Mandi (@whatmandi) and Gina (@hotgina1). The four moms are known to be members of what they call the "Wolfpack" on social media.
However, recent events led to Graham's departure from the group, per her initial video, which has 1.7 million views. "It's just as big of a shock to me as it is to you. I was truly, truly blindsided by this," said the Kentucky creator, who posts on TikTok under the username@kaleighs_mom.
As Graham recounted in her initial video, the drama allegedly began when she commented on a Facebook post shared by someone that Mattei stopped being friends with. Graham said she was personally friends with the unnamed Facebook user, but she distanced herself from them after the rift with Mattei.
Mattei allegedly then texted Mandi and Gina to say she was upset by Graham's Facebook activity. Gina then took matters to their group text with Graham to ask why she left the comment.
"I felt like Gina was really f------ rude, if we're honest. I just felt like she was being really aggressive, really harsh and rude," she recalled. Graham said she proceeded to defend herself, "I'm like, 'It's social media, it's Facebook. It's not that deep.' "
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She claims Mandi chimed in on the matter, causing Graham to feel as though the two were "ganging up" on her and questioning her loyalty. The three of them went on to argue back and forth, Graham said.
"I'm embarrassed even saying this out loud. It is as childish as it sounds, and I'm so f------ embarrassed by it," she reflected in the video. "I still to this day stand 10 toes down, I did nothing wrong. I didn't try to hurt Meaghan. This person that I commented on the Facebook post has never been malicious towards Meaghan. She's never done anything to hurt Meaghan."
The Kentucky-based mom admitted that in hindsight, she "probably should have texted Meaghan on the side" to ask why Mandi and Gina were upset. Instead, the group allegedly followed the fight with a couple of days without speaking. Graham said she reopened the conversation by trying to make a joke in the chat, and Gina asked her if they could "have a serious conversation," which Graham agreed to do.
"I thought that conversation ended fine. I had no idea otherwise," she claims. However, the group text went [silent] again, and when Graham next checked, she saw that Mattei had left the chat. When Graham reached out to her to ask what was happening, Mattei allegedly said she "had to take a step back."
Meanwhile, Graham started "hashing it out" in the other chat. "Me and Mandi were pretty harsh towards each other," she admitted. "It just kept blowing up from there. I don't know. They wanted me to fall in line. I didn't. It blew up."
Later, after the argument, Graham says her husband "had one too many beers" and sent "an ugly text" in a group message with Mattei and her husband. "He was pissed and he's hurt," Graham explained.
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"All I can say is, I thought these people were my family. We would spend 4-5 days together at a time," Mandi said in a statement to PEOPLE. "Our families all knew each other. Knowing now that they didn't actually care for me, and only wanted me around so that Gina would come around is heartbreaking, to me. I had a feeling for a while Rachel didn't like me, but she would say that she loved me, our friendship we talked every single day in the group chat, so I put that discernment aside."
"I tell my kids ALL the time 'if something doesn't feel right, it isn't right,'" Mandi continued. "And I should have taken my own advice. I told my daughter just today "if someone is talking so poorly about someone else and then embracing them and calling them a best friend to their face- RUN."
Graham, Mattei and Gina did not immediately respond to PEOPLE's request for comment.
The video went viral in the days that followed, with Mandi and Gina posting responses. Mattei has yet to respond to the conflict. However, many TikTok viewers have taken sides, with some flocking to comments sections to state their allegiances. In one ofher own posts, Gina disputed Graham's video as "completely misleading and unfair."
"Me and Mandi were lied to our whole friendship by grown women might I add. I don't need anyone to feel sorry for us, we don't need a pity party, we're not victims," Gina wrote. "I do not care what people think of me on social media because I know exactly who I am."
Inone of her responses, Mandi refuted the claim that their friendship fell apart over a Facebook comment, though she did admit that Gina confronted Graham over it. "That's not why our friendship ended," said Mandi. "Our friendship ended because Rachel got caught up."
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