
Hilary Duff has been left stunned after Frankie Muniz resurfaced a decades-old claim about their Agent Cody Banks casting. The remark landed in Los Angeles earlier this month when Duff learned that Muniz blamed her mother for a fallout that began when both were teenagers.
Duff, who now lives a settled life with her three children and a busy career, never expected fresh noise around a film she made at 15. Yet a single podcast moment dragged old pressure back into view and revived what one insider calls her long-buried 'teenage trauma'.