Hilary Duff‘s upcoming album Luck … or Something covers a lot of ground, from the challenges of being a mom to having an “inappropriate” age-gap relationship when she was younger and dealing with tensions with members of her family.
And in a Glamour cover story published Tuesday (Feb. 17), the singer/actress opened up about why she decided to bear it all on the new project. “I just felt really ready to share,” she explained. “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.”
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“That’s my family,” she said of tracks such as “We Don’t Talk,” which seemingly addresses her rumored rift with sister Haylie, and “The Optimist,” on which she sings about wishing her “father would really love” her. “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,” Duff continued. “You can only control your side and your street … I’ve had a very complicated life, and my parents had a very complicated thing.”
The Lizzie McGuire alum hasn’t said much about her parents, but some of their challenges were made public when her father, Robert, admitted to having an affair during his marriage to Hilary’s mother, Susan. While going through divorce court in 2008, he reportedly spent a day in jail after allegedly selling his family’s assets without court approval.
As for Haylie, Hilary is rumored to be feuding with her older sister amid speculation that the younger Duff was part of the “toxic” mom group fellow Disney Channel star Ashley Tisdale wrote about in a recent op-ed. Hilary’s husband, Matthew Koma, mocked Tisdale’s essay with a satirical post calling her “tone deaf,” shortly after which Haylie posted about hanging out with Tisdale and her kids.
Hilary didn’t touch on the alleged mom group drama, but she did have high praise for the group of women she’s become friends with since welcoming 13-year-old son Luca with her ex-husband, Mike Comrie, and 7-year-old Banks, 4-year-old Mae and 1-year-old Townes with Koma.
“I feel exceedingly lucky that my kids happen to spend time with people that I feel like our values are aligned with,” she told the publication. “The friends that I’ve made since becoming a parent are some of the deeper, more surprising friendships I’ve found as an adult.”
Luck … or Something arrives Friday (Feb. 20), after which the How I Met Your Father performer will embark on a sprawling arena tour. So far, fans have heard two songs from the album: “Roommates” and lead single “Mature.”
Of the latter song, Duff told Glamour, “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.”
“I think that it’s super nuanced, and it’s hard to defend certain things that have happened in my life,” she added of “Mature.” “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.”
See Hilary on the cover of Glamour below.
