Hilary Duff has opened up about her complicated family dynamics and a past inappropriate age-gap relationship in a new Glamour interview tied to her upcoming album. The singer-actress discusses rumored rifts with her sister and parents while promoting Luck … or Something. She emphasizes personal growth and connections formed through motherhood.
In a Glamour cover story published on February 17, 2026, Hilary Duff reflects on the personal themes explored in her upcoming album, Luck … or Something, set for release on February 20, 2026. The project covers challenges of motherhood, family tensions, and a past romantic experience she describes as an “inappropriate” age-gap relationship.
Duff explains her decision to share these stories: “I just felt really ready to share. 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.” Tracks like “We Don’t Talk,” which appears to address rumored tensions with her sister Haylie Duff, and “The Optimist,” where she expresses a wish for her “father would really love” her, highlight these family matters. “That’s my family,” Duff says. “Those are the people that affect you the most, take up the most space naturally as a human who’s born into something.”
She acknowledges the complexities of family bonds: “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.” Public records from her parents' 2008 divorce include her father Robert admitting to an affair and spending a day in jail for allegedly selling family assets without court approval.
Rumors of a feud between Hilary and Haylie have circulated amid speculation involving a “toxic” mom group described in an op-ed by Ashley Tisdale. Hilary’s husband, Matthew Koma, responded satirically to Tisdale’s piece, after which Haylie shared a post about a playdate with Tisdale and her children. Duff did not address this directly but praised her own circle of mom friends: “I feel exceedingly lucky that my kids happen to spend time with people that I feel like our values are aligned with. The friends that I’ve made since becoming a parent are some of the deeper, more surprising friendships I’ve found as an adult.”
Regarding the lead single “Mature,” Duff reveals it draws from a brief relationship with someone older: “It’s definitely about a relationship that I had. It was very brief with someone older than me, and that was not illegal, but inappropriate when you have this much time removed from it.” She adds, “I think that it’s super nuanced, and it’s hard to defend certain things that have happened in my life. But the one thing that I’ll say is, working as an adult since I was 10 years old, it’s very hard to have relationships with people your own age.”
Following the album's release, Duff will launch the Lucky Me World Tour, her first in nearly two decades. Fans have already heard “Roommates” and “Mature” from the project.
