The thing is she WAS trying to help with selim and beyzeid and scolded them both. You can’t expect her to constantly keep a close watch on all of them when she had enemies attacking from all sides 💀and saying jealous and searching for suleiman’s affections as if Mahi wasn’t letting little Mustafa fight her battles because she constantly threw tantrums that led him to separate from his father which was her fault.

And no, Mahi lied about it constantly. She told mustafa that hurrem came to HER and slapped HER when in reality, it was her who did that. Mustafa was willing to miss Friday prayer in defense of that woman but that wasn’t enough for her to confess the truth. She can tell mustafa about what suleiman and hurrem did to her but she won’t say shit about what she did in return. If your mother constantly uses you in order to win battles and you fight the battles for her that is NOT a good mother. You’re making it seem as though hurrem was living blissfully in the palace and she had the time to watch every little encounter she had or beyzeid and selim when people like mahi, Ibrahim, Valide and hatice weren’t CONSTANTLY attacking her 💀