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Hilary Duff's Call Her Daddy Bombshells: Toxic Mom Group Drama & Lindsay Lohan Feud
Hilary Duff knows a thing or two about letting something go when it’s over.
After all, while candidly sharing insight into her separation from former NHL player Mike Comrie back in 2015, the Lizzie McGuire alum noted that their breakup happened “pretty fast.”
“I can’t remember the exact time I was like, ‘I’m gonna call this,’” Hilary shared during the Feb. 25 episode of Call Her Daddy. “It was just—it wasn’t working anymore.”
Indeed, the hardest part about the breakup for the 38-year-old was trying to do what was best for the couple’s now 13-year-old son Luca, who was just a toddler at the time.
“I remember the one thing that was really hard about it was like, processing that it was happening and it was going to happen and going through all those emotions,” she recalled. “It was a really scary time to just not want to f--k up your kid.”
As she put it, “You put all your stuff aside and I had to deal with all of that later to just make sure he was OK.”
Luckily, Hilary always felt like she and Mike—who began dating in 2007 before tying the knot three years later—were on the same page when it came to making their divorce as painless as possible for their son.
“I think he was good with it, because I was like, ‘Here’s this, this, this,’ and he was like, ‘Great,’” Hilary recalled. “I remember doing everything in my power to have it be peaceful and have us hanging out and spending time together.”
Hilary—who shares Banks, 7, Mae, 4, and Townes, 20 months with now-husband Matthew Koma—joked that she and Mike embarked on a “conscious uncoupling” dynamic, as their divorce coincided with Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin popularizing the term with their separation.
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“Every time we would trade, it wouldn’t just be a drop off pick up situation we would go to the park and hang or go have a meal,” she explained. “It was really important to me to do it in a way that Luca could feel like, comfy.”
And despite their romance coming to an end, Hilary emphasized she still looks back fondly on their chapter together.
“We had so much fun,” she recalled. “I didn’t care about my career at that point. Mike was playing hockey. I was going to live with him for months at a time wherever he would play and we were just having fun.”
For more bombshells from Hilary’s Call Her Daddy appearance, keep reading…
How Hilary Duff Really Feels About Toxic Mom Group Drama
After Ashley Tisdale made waves when she penned an essay about experiencing "toxic" mom group drama, many speculated that Hilary was part of the circle the HSM actress was referring to. (Hilary's husband Matthew Koma also entered the chat shortly there after to come to her defense.)
Now, Hilary is ready to come clean about her perspective.
"I felt really sad," she said during the Feb. 25 episode of Call Her Daddy. "I honestly felt really sad. I was pretty taken aback and felt just sad. I love, I have so many groups of friends. I'm so lucky. Motherhood has brought on, like I have my core group of friends who have been my ride or die for 20 years, 10 to 20 years, and I have tons of different groups of mom friends because I have four kids, you know? So, I think I just was like, 'Whoa.' It sucks to read something that's not true and it sucks on behalf of like six women and all of their lives."
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How Hilary Duff and Lindsay Lohan Made Up After Feud
The Lizzie McGuire alum, whose feud with Lindsay was sparked over them both dating Aaron Carter, admitted she intentionally crashed the Freaky Friday premiere in 2003 to spite her "childhood nemesis." However, their once hostile relationship is now water under the bridge.
"But now it's so many years later, like who cares?" she shared. "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.'”
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Where Hilary Duff Stands With Sister Haylie Duff Amid Estrangement
Hilary shared insight into where she stands with older sister Haylie after the release of her song, "We Don't Talk," but noted that she has tried to approach relationships in her life straightforward before finding an artistic route.
"I think there was no way for me to make a record after 10 years and not dig into what those 10 years have looked like, you know?" Hilary explained, "and the big things that have happened and that affect me and that make me who I am. And unfortunately a lot of that has been like not great stuff and that's life."
"People have known everybody in my life since I was on Lizzie McGuire, you know," she shared. "They know my mom, my sister, and my dad. Like we have a small family. People are interested in that for some reason. And it's really sad, you know, kind of like where we are right now...And scary to share it because of like the internet, but important for me, like I'm just saying how it feels for me."
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Hilary Duff Reflects on Meeting Her Ex Aaron Carter
Despite fans remembering the two crossing paths during the "Candy" singer's appearance on Lizzie McGuire, Hilary revealed how she and Aaron—who died in 2022—really came to be.
"I got invited to his birthday party," she revealed, "there was like some cute sparks, and then I think I pitched the idea of having him come on the show, and then we started dating pretty soon after that.”
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What Led to Hilary Duff's Divorce From Mike Comrie
After Hilary welcomed son Luca with then-husband Mike Comrie in 2012, the couple would separate nearly two years later. It was a decision, as she explained, came naturally.
"It just got to a point where it wasn't gonna...I think he was good with it because I was like, 'Here's this, this, this,' like, you know, and he was like, 'Great,'" she noted. "This was before conscious uncoupling was a thing and my parents went through such a bad divorce that calling it made it really painful, but like, we're not together anymore. So obviously it was bad enough that it wasn't working."
"And that was a really tough call because we had a not even 2-year-old kid," she explained. "And I remember doing everything in my power to like, have it be peaceful and have us hanging out and spending time together. And every time we would, you know, trade, it wouldn't just be like a drop off pickup situation. We would like go to the park and hang or go have a meal. It was really important to me to do it in a way that Luca could feel like comfy."
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