It is set to be a big year for Hilary Duff as she heads on her The Lucky Me Tour after relaunching her music career last year. 

One of the original Disney stars, Hilary, 38, made her name playing the iconic Lizzie McGuire in both the series and 2003 hit movie.

After spending the mid-200s as a major box office draw with films like A Cinderella Story and Cheaper By The Dozen, she then verged into music, becoming one of the biggest pop stars of the noughties. 

However after the release of her album Breathe In Breathe Out in 2015, the star took some time away from the spotlight, returning to the stage last year with her first single Mature. 

Yet her return to mainstream has also triggered headlines regarding her tumultuous relationship with her older sister Haylie. 

Since 2019, the once inseparable siblings have not been photographed publicly and appear to have little online interaction with one another.

Speaking in November Hilary admitted ‘family drama’ played a part in her years away from music and her new songs are thought to allude to the tension between them, with one track even hinting her sister could be jealous of her success. 

Meanwhile, Hilary’s album Luck… Or Something is set for release on Friday, just a day after Haylie celebrates her 41st birthday. 

After almost seven years of social media silence between the sisters, it seems unlikely Hilary will be posting a birthday tribute, and instead her album may air the pair’s dirty laundry.  

 Since 2019, the once inseparable siblings have not been photographed publicly and appear to have little online interaction with one another (pictured in 2002)

The rumored feud between the sisters reportedly stems from tension involving Hilary’s husband, Matthew Koma, and Haylie’s fiancé, Matthew Rosenberg.

Celebrity gossip outlet DeuxMoi previously claimed the men ‘don’t get along,’ leading to strain between the Duff sisters, though neither has ever publicly addressed the alleged distance in their relationship.

The pair were last seen together at Hilary and Matthew’s wedding in 2019, celebration which Haylie was reportedly very ‘involved in’ with sources telling People at the time: ‘Hilary and Haylie are very close’. 

However after the celebrations the pair stopped interacting on social media, no longer liking or commenting on each others’ posts, despite still following each other. 

While Hilary lives in Los Angeles, in 2021 her sister and her family relocated to Austin Texas, just a few months after Hilary and Matthew welcomed their second daughter. 

While neither of the sisters have directly mentioned the fall out, in November Hilary broke her silence on the long-rumoured tension as she admitted ‘family drama’ played a part in her absence from the spotlight. 

Appearing on Jake Shane’s Therapuss podcast, she reflected on how her life and priorities have shifted over the years and alluded to ‘complicated relationships’ and ‘family drama’. 

She told the host of her return to music: ‘It was always going to happen. There’s no way that that was not going to be a part of my story.

Speaking in November Hilary admitted ‘family drama’ played a part in her years away from music and her new songs are thought to allude to the tension between them (pictured 2008)

The rumored feud between the sisters reportedly stems from tension involving Hilary’s husband, Matthew Koma (pictured in 2025), and Haylie’s fiancé, Matthew Rosenberg

While Hilary lives in Los Angeles, in 2021 her sister and her family relocated to Austin Texas (Haylie pictured with her fiancée Matthew in 2023)

Hilary’s new track fittingly titled We Don’t Talk is thought to be about Haylie, as Hilary sings: ‘Don’t know when it happened / Not even sure what it was about’ (pictured performing in Feb)

‘Obviously, it’s taken a lot of twists and turns and ups and downs and all of those things, but I have this crazy connection with fans that I’ve known since I was nine, ten years old, and I just want to connect with them again.’

‘We have gone through a lot of the same things – whether that’s complicated relationships, anxiety, raising kids, divorces, trying to find yourself in adulthood, family drama… 

‘Finally I felt safe enough and comfortable in my own family to step outside and open that part of myself up again,’ she said.

Speaking in a new interview with Glamour this week, Hilary also made a pointed comment as she explained that blood-related relatives aren’t always intended to remain together.

‘That’s my family. Those are the people that affect you the most, take up the most space naturally as a human who’s born into something,’ she told the publication.

‘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. I know it’s not rare, and I think it goes back to the theme of, Why share now? I guess I just felt ready.’

And now it seems all will be revealed in Hilary’s new album Luck… or Something, which is set for release on Friday, a day after her sister’s birthday. 

The new record contains several songs seemingly pulling back the curtain on her fractured relationship with sister Haylie and father Robert Duff, with the singer even suggesting her sister may be jealous of her. 

The track fittingly titled We Don’t Talk is thought to be about Haylie, as Hilary sings: ‘Don’t know when it happened / Not even sure what it was about.’

Hilary debuted the song at a London show in January, as she dropped a big clue the song is about her sister, singing, ‘Cause we come from the same home, same blood.’

Hilary continues, ‘People ask me how you’re doing / I wanna say amazing, but the truth is that I don’t know / What I always end up saying is how we don’t talk / we don’t talk about it / We don’t talk about anything anymore.’

She then alludes to her sister possibly being ‘jealous’ of her.

‘And if it’s ’cause you’re jealous / God knows I would sell it all, then break you off the bigger half,’ she croons.

While Haylie never reached the dizzying career heights of her superstar sister, she has had plenty of success in her own right.

She’s best known for starring in the cult classic Napoleon Dynamite and for her role on the Christian family drama 7th Heaven.

The mom-of-two also became a successful food blogger, which led to her own cooking shows, and she’s released a string of popular TV movies over the years.

 Hilary also made a pointed comment in an interview this week as she explained that blood-related relatives aren’t always intended to remain together (pictured in 2017)

Hilary and Haylie have both been embroiled in the ‘toxic mom group’ fallout after Ashley Tisdale took aim at Hilary in her viral essay… and Haylie liked the post

Fans quickly speculated that the unnamed group included Hilary and Mandy, particularly after Ashley unfollowed both women on Instagram

In 2004, Haylie and Hilary teamed up to cover The Go-Go’s classic Our Lips Are Sealed, which became a top 20 hit on the Billboard Hot 100.

They later headlined the teen comedy Material Girls together, which was released in 2006 to mixed reviews.

In an emotional turn in the song, Hilary then pleads for herself and Haylie to bury the hatchet and hash out their issues once and for all.

‘Let’s have it out / I’ll hear you out, you’ll hear me out on the couch / Get back to how we were as kids / Let’s break it down / So sick of being so sad about / How we don’t talk and you won’t talk about it,’ she sings.

While Hilary hasn’t officially confirmed that the track is about her sister, fans on social media are certain that it is.

‘Hilary Duff just sung We Don’t Talk and it’s 100% about Haylie. But not mean at all. Basically telling her to reach out,’ commented one.

‘I just don’t get why either can’t pick up a phone and just talk, there is clearly a way to relay it,’ wrote another.

Meanwhile Hilary and Haylie have both been embroiled in the ‘toxic mom group’ fallout after Ashley Tisdale took aim at Hilary in her viral essay. 

Ashley’s essay, called ‘Breaking Up With My Toxic Mom Group,’ detailed her feelings of feeling frozen out by friends during her postpartum period.

The High School Musical alum had previously raved about her ‘village of moms,’ which included Hilary, Mandy Moore and Meghan Trainor, after welcoming her first daughter Jupiter in 2021.

However following the birth of her second child, son Emerson, now 16 months, Ashley explained she began to feel excluded during vulnerable postpartum months.

Expanding on a November 2025 post for her blog ByAshleyFrench, she later penned an article for The Cut, though she did not name any of the women involved.

She wrote that she started noticing she wasn’t invited to certain gatherings, which she later saw posted on Instagram.

‘It took me back to an unpleasant but familiar feeling I thought I’d left behind years ago,’ she wrote.

‘Here I was sitting alone one night after getting my daughter to bed thinking Maybe I’m not cool enough? All of a sudden I was in high school again, feeling totally lost as to what I was doing ‘wrong’ to be left out.’

She said she ultimately texted the group after being excluded once again, writing: ‘This is too high school for me and I don’t want to take part in it anymore.’

‘To be clear I have never considered the moms to be bad people (maybe one),’ Tisdale added. ‘But I do think our group dynamic stopped being healthy and positive – for me anyway.’

Fans quickly speculated that the unnamed group included Hilary and Mandy, particularly after Ashley unfollowed both women on Instagram.

And Haylie appeared to stamp her seal of approval on the essay after she liked The Cut and Ashley’s joint Instagram post promoting the star’s essay. 

Hilary’s husband Matthew was quick to have his say on the drama as he slammed ‘self obsessed’ and ‘tone deaf’ Ashley with a cutting photoshopped Instagram post 

While her sister liked the post, Hilary’s husband Matthew was quick to have his say on the drama as he slammed ‘self obsessed’ and ‘tone deaf’ Ashley with a cutting Instagram post.

He poked fun at the essay with a mock headline that read ‘When You’re the Most Self Obsessed Tone Deaf Person on Earth, Other Moms Tend to Shift Focus to Their Actual Toddlers.’

He also photoshopped his own head onto Ashley’s body, recreating The Cut image of her seated on a white couch wearing an all-black outfit. 

The image also featured a smaller headline that read, ‘A Mom Group Tell All Through A Father’s Eye.’