Hillary Duff has made references to strained relationships with her sister Haylie Duff and father Robert Duff on her new album.
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Hilary Duff is officially pulling back the curtain on the family drama fans have speculated about for years.
As she prepares to drop her first album in over a decade, "luck… or something", on February 20, the 38-year-old "Mature" singer is getting incredibly candid about the strained relationships with her sister, Haylie Duff, and her father, Robert "Bob" Duff.
In a recent interview with "Glamour", Hilary admitted that she is finally ready to stop sugarcoating the truth.
"That’s my family. Those are the people that affect you the most, take up the most space naturally as a human who’s born into something. Just because you’re born into a family doesn’t mean that it always stays together. You can only control your side and your street," she said.
Hilary added that her goal was to connect with her audience on a more authentic level, acknowledging that many people go through similar "large strokes" of family drama and adulthood struggles.
The distance between Hilary and her sister has been a mystery to fans since the two were last seen together in 2019, and they ceased all social media interaction.
Hilary appears to confirm the estrangement through the song, "We Don't Talk".
The lyrics include lines such as: "People ask me how you’re doing / I wanna say amazing, but the truth is that I don’t know / What I always end up saying is how we don't talk."
While she admits she isn't even sure exactly when or why the rift began, one verse touches on themes of jealousy and rivalry.
"I’m not sure when it happened / Not even sure what it was about ... And if it’s 'cause you’re jealous / God knows I would sell it all to break you off the bigger half."
The song ends on a hopeful note, with a bridge that invites her sister to sit on the couch and find their way back to the bond they shared as children.
In the interview, Hilary also dived deep into the complex history she shares with her father.
Their relationship has been fractured since her parents divorced in 2008, a messy split that involved infidelity and her father briefly being jailed for contempt of court for selling family assets without approval.
In "The Optimist", she sings: "I wish I could sleep on planes, and that my father would really love me".
She acknowledged that her parents' "very complicated" situation made her own life complicated, but after ten years away from the microphone, the mother of four and wife of Matthew Koma feels creatively ready to share her reality.
"I just felt really ready to share," she said.
"One, I wanted to stretch creatively, and two, I wanted to make something that I could connect with people again on the level of who I am now. I felt like people have definitely gone through some of the similar large strokes that I have in the past 10 to 15 years."