Hilary Duff Gets Candid About Her 'Complicated' Family Dynamics: 'You Can Only Control Your Side and Your Street’
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Jack IrvinFebruary 17, 2026 at 11:45 PM
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Hilary Duff is getting candid about family dynamics in her new music.
The “Mature” singer, 38, opened up in a new Glamour cover story interview about making apparent references to strained relationships with her sister Haylie and father Robert in the lyrics of her upcoming album luck… or something.
Hilary recently performed the album track “We Don’t Talk” at her Small Rooms, Big Nerves concerts, and fans speculated its lyrics are about her alleged rift with Haylie, 40. “I’m not sure when it happened / Not even sure what it was about,” she sings on the track, which also references coming from “the same home, the same blood.”
Additionally, Glamour cited lyrics from another song on the album, “The Optimist,” that seem to nod at Hilary’s relationship with Robert, who’s divorced from her mom Susan. “I wish I could sleep on planes and that my father would really love me,” sings Hilary.
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Regarding why she wanted to open up about family dynamics at this point in time, the “Come Clean” singer told the outlet, “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.”
Hilary continued, “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.”
“I’ve had a very complicated life, and my parents had a very complicated thing,” she added. “I know it’s not rare, and I think it goes back to the theme of, Why share now? I guess I just felt ready.”
This isn’t the first time Hilary’s written about her relationship with Robert. Several songs on her 2007 album Dignity referenced his split from Susan as well as an extramarital affair, which he spoke about in a 2008 interview with Inside Edition.
“I was unfaithful to our marriage,” said Robert at the time. “I feel very badly about that and the effect that it had on the girls.”
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Elsewhere in Hilary’s new Glamour interview, the mother of four and wife of Matthew Koma explained why she was ready to return to music with luck… or something — her first new album in over 10 years.
“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.”
luck... or something comes out on Friday, Feb. 20. Hilary will embark on the Lucky Me Tour later this year in support of the album.
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