Hilary Duff broke down in tears over her estranged dynamic with her older sister, Haylie Duff.
“[It’s] just absolutely the most lonely part of my existence is not having my sister in my life at the moment,” Hilary, 38, tearfully said in a CBS Mornings interview broadcast Friday, February 20. “[I] really struggled with including that on the record.”
Hilary’s newest album, Luck … Or Something, includes a song called “We Don’t Talk” that she said is “definitely” about her strained relationship with Haylie, 41.
“As a person that exists in the world without my, like, other half, so many people are having that experience,” she said. “A lot of conversations I have with people are, like, ‘Yeah, me too.’”
Hilary ultimately decided to include “We Don’t Talk” on her new album, which dropped Friday, because it’s her “truth.”
“It’s my truth, and like I said, so many people are having this experience,” she said. “It’s hard because I am me, and people know everything about my life since I was a child. I didn’t necessarily choose that part, but it’s my reality. It was honestly, like, healing to say.”
Hilary continued, “It’s hard to watch your life unfold on the internet sometimes with talking heads on TikTok speculating this, that and the other. Sometimes they’re wrong and sometimes they’re right. All of that is just a crazy thing to process.”
Hilary, who had never publicly addressed her falling out with Haylie, further noted that she’s tried not to “let that noise seep in.”
“Obviously, it’s there,” she said. “It would be impossible to say it doesn’t piss me off or hurt me sometimes, but I also understand it’s a lane of work that’s been created and now that there’s not a lot of work out there anymore, people got to do it.”
Haylie also hasn’t been vocal about her relationship with Hilary, who remained unsure about whether her sister would even listen to Luck … Or Something or “We Don’t Talk.”
“I don’t think that would help,” the Younger alum said. “I think I have to just exist as a person on my own and do what I want to do. I hope that for everyone, that is where I’m sitting. You have to do what you want to do and you have to do what feels good for you. It’s taken me a lot of time to get there and to live that way and to not care what the noise is going to be around it and just be me.”
Hilary added, “I don’t know if she’ll hear it. I don’t know how she’ll react to it. You know, it is a really personal part of my life that doesn’t get to stay personal, so I might as well say how it is for me, and that’s all I’m trying to do.”
Hilary further stressed that she’s “not trying to say anything bad” about her sister.
“It’s literally just my experience,” she concluded. “That’s really all I feel like sharing.”
Luck … Or Something is available now.
