“I’m sure my publicist will be like, ‘What the f--- are you doing?’” the singer joked.

Hilary Duff admits she purposely crashed Lindsay Lohan’s 2003 Freaky Friday premiere

"I'm sure my publicist will be like, 'What the f--- are you doing?'" the singer joked.

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February 25, 2026 2:13 p.m. ET

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Hilary Duff and Lindsay Lohan at the premiere of 'Freaky Friday' in 2003. Credit:

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Hilary Duff is coming clean about a long-standing theory behind her presence at the August 2003 premiere of *Freaky Friday*.

On this week's episode of *Call Her Daddy*, host Alex Cooper asked the singer and actress if she "purposefully" crashed the premiere to spite her Disney Channel rival Lindsay Lohan. Duff, who starred on the network's beloved *Lizzie McGuire* series, and Lohan, who starred in several Disney original films like *Get A Clue *and *Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen*, sparked rumors of a long-standing feud due to a love triangle involving the late pop star Aaron Carter.

"I think absolutely yes," Duff admitted on Wednesday, grinning sheepishly. "I was a teenager!"

When Cooper asked if Duff had then been surprised when Lohan showed up to the premiere of her film *Cheaper By the Dozen *in December that same year, the mother of four said no. "I mean, that was like my childhood feud... like my nemesis," she reasoned.

Hilary Duff attends premiere of 'Freaky Friday' in 2003.

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Duff quipped that her publicist would be aghast at her admitting the truth, but pointed out that "it's so many years later, like who cares?"

"It does not matter. Also, Lindsay came up to me at a club once and was like, 'Are we good?' And I was like, 'We're good.' She was like, 'Let's take a shot.' I was like, 'OK,'" Duff recalled fondly. But the singer made sure to note that she wasn't the only guilty party when it came to her unexpected appearance at the *Freaky Friday *premiere!

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She revealed that she had actually been invited by Chad Michael Murray, who starred in the film alongside Lohan, Jamie Lee Curtis, Mark Harmon, Christina Vidal Mitchell, Haley Hudson, Lucille Soong, Stephen Tobolowsky, and Rosalind Chao.

"I don't want to start any more stuff, but like he was like, 'You should come with me,'" Duff told Cooper. "And I was like, 'Mhm, probably I should.' I mean, what was I, like six[teen]? No, I was younger than that..."

As Cooper accurately predicted, "the millennial girls *are* screaming at their TVs right now."

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Duff also opened up to Cooper about a more recent public feud that sparked after fellow Disney Channel alum Ashley Tisdale published a revealing personal essay in *The Cut** *chronicling her rocky path out of a group of fellow moms after it "stopped being healthy and positive." After the essay's publication, social media users narrowed down the names of potential members in Tisdale's former group, with many pointing to images Duff shared to Instagram in 2021 featuring herself, Tisdale, Mandy Moore, and Meghan Trainor.

"I felt really sad. I honestly felt really sad," Duff told the podcast host of her initial reaction to the piece. "I was, like, pretty, pretty taken aback and felt just, like, sad."

Hilary Duff attends her "luck...or something" Album Celebration in 2026.

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She added that becoming a mom has brought different groups of mom friends into her life. "So I think I just was like, 'Woah,'" she added. "It sucks to read something that's, like, not true. And it sucks on behalf of, like, six women in all of their lives."

Duff's husband, musician Matthew Koma, couldn't help but say his piece about Tisdale's essay online. Koma recreated Tisdale's pose on *The Cut* with a set of faux headlines that read, "A mom group tell all through a father's eyes," followed by the line, "When you're the most self obsessed tone deaf person on earth, other moms tend to shift focus to their actual toddlers."

While Duff said she didn't know Koma planned to post the photo, she didn't rebuke her husband for his actions. "Honestly, everything he does makes me laugh. So I was like, 'Oh my God. Oh my God.' But I also don't censor him, and I don't tell him what he can and can't post. He is so, like, fierce for me, and, like, I love him for that."

Watch Hilary Duff on *Call Her Daddy* above.

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