Hilary Duff on feuding with Lindsay Lohan, the ‘toxic’ mom group drama and more: 4 things we learned from her ‘Call Her Daddy’ interview

Neia BalaoWed, February 25, 2026 at 9:45 PM UTC

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Next stop on Hilary Duff’s comeback tour? Call Her Daddy.

The “Weather For Tennis” pop star sat down with host Alex Cooper on Wednesday’s episode to discuss her musical renaissance. Duff, who released her first album in over a decade, Luck … or Something, last Friday, spilled the tea on a variety of topics — like that one time she crashed a certain red carpet premiere, the harsh realities of relationship lulls and the pitfalls of growing up in the public eye.

Duff makes one thing abundantly clear, though: Life has certainly been life-ing, and she’s grateful to her fans for sticking by her more than 20 years later.

“I’m not reintroducing myself at all. I think I just needed a second to live some life, and they’ve lived a whole bunch of life,” she told Cooper. “And now we get to connect as adults and talk about what the hell that’s like.”

Below, Yahoo unpacks four of the major revelations from Duff’s Call Her Daddy interview.

Crashing the Freaky Friday premiere — at the height of her feud with Lindsay Lohan

Hilary Duff at the "Freaky Friday" premiere on Aug. 4, 2003. (Kathryn Indiek/Globe Photos/ZUMA Press Wire/Shutterstock)

The year was 2003, and a 15-year-old Duff was embroiled in a very public feud with fellow teen star Lindsay Lohan. When it came time to celebrate the premiere of Lohan’s new movie, Freaky Friday, fans were surprised to see the Lizzie McGuire star in attendance — and reasonably so.

Over two decades later, Duff is setting the record straight: Yes, she crashed the event. No, she’s not surprised that Lohan crashed the Cheaper by the Dozen premiere in retaliation.

“Absolutely, yes,” Duff said of crashing the Freaky Friday premiere. “That was my childhood nemesis. … 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!’”

But Duff didn’t attend the premiere totally out of the blue. Chad Michael Murray, Lohan’s love interest in the film, who also starred in A Cinderella Story with Duff, invited her.

The “So Yesterday” singer told Cooper, “But also, like, Chad Michael Murray invited me. Why? He was like, ‘You should come with me,’ and I was like, ‘Probably, I should.’”

Blindsided by the ‘toxic’ mom group drama

Hilary Duff and Ashley Tisdale. (Photo illustration: Yahoo News; photos: Michael Tullberg/Getty Images, Michael Tullberg/Getty Images)

It’s been nearly two months since Ashley Tisdale’s viral essay about her allegedly “toxic” celebrity mom group was published on the Cut — and while Duff didn’t weigh in initially, she’s doing so now.

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(For the uninitiated: Tisdale penned a personal piece for the publication in which she recounted leaving her friend group of fellow celebrity moms because she felt “a growing distance” between herself and them. “You deserve to go through motherhood with people who actually, you know, like you,” she wrote. Duff is believed to be one of the moms in Tisdale’s former group of friends.)

While Duff didn’t share much on the subject, she did admit she was hurt to learn about the essay.

“I honestly felt really sad. I was pretty taken aback,” she said. “It sucks to read something that’s not true. And it sucks on behalf of six women and all of their lives.”

Duff’s husband, Matthew Koma, publicly responded to Tisdale’s claims with a scathing Instagram story in January. In it, he called the former High School Musical star “the most self obsessed tone deaf person on earth.”

The spicier lyrics on Luck … or Something

When Duff dropped “Roommates,” her second single off of Luck … or Something, last month, the internet seemed to be divided. The song was positively received by her fans, but some social media users criticized Duff for being too salacious and for speaking too candidly about sex.

On the track, Duff laments the early, fiery beginnings of a relationship that’s lost its spark. Hooking up in dive bars and orchestrating late-night rendezvous give way to feeling unwanted and turning to pornography for sexual gratification.

What some people fail to recognize, Duff told Cooper, is that songwriting is storytelling — and not every part of a story is rooted in reality. She’s never done anything spicy in the back of a dive bar, for instance.

“The song is meant to be polarizing. It’s not meant to be raunchy or get attention because of what I’m saying. It’s a plea, and I think that’s relatable to women,” she said. “You get to take lyrical liberties when you’re writing a song and you’re creating art, and it was important for me that the song felt very polarizing because that’s what it feels like in a moment in a lull of a relationship.”

Detailing her estrangement from Haylie Duff on ‘We Don’t Talk’

Haylie Duff and Hilary Duff in 2015. (Noel Vasquez/Getty Images)

On Duff’s new album, Luck … or Something, no topic is off limits. Among the most buzzed-about tracks on the album is “We Don’t Talk,” in which she speaks candidly about an important but fractured relationship that she doesn’t know how to fix.

In a recent interview with CBS Mornings, Duff confirmed that the track is about her estrangement from her older sister Haylie, which she called “the most lonely part of my existence.” For Duff, releasing the song was more about catharsis than anything else. She doesn’t necessarily expect a reconciliation to come from it.

“I think there was no way for me to make a record after 10 years and not dig into what those 10 years looked like,” she told Cooper. “Unfortunately, a lot of that has been not great stuff, and that’s life. It sucks that I’m not an adult coming out with an album [where] people don’t know my story and all the players in it. People have known everybody in my life since I was on Lizzie McGuire. They know my mom, my sister, my dad.”

She continued, “It’s really kind of sad, you know, where we are right now, and scary to share it because of the internet … I’m just saying how it feels for me.”

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