As if we weren’t getting enough celebrity sibling drama from the Beckhams this year, Hilary Duff has seemingly addressed her long-rumoured rift with her older sister Haylie in a brand new song.
The pop icon released her long-awaited sixth studio album Luck … or Something on Friday, with one track already sending the internet into full meltdown.
What’s Hilary Duff’s new song about?
“We Don’t Talk”, which appears to sample Gotye and Kimbra’s “Somebody That I Used To Know”, very much alludes to Hilary’s fractured relationship with Haylie and how she wishes they were still close.
“‘Cos we come from the same home, the same blood / A different combination, but the same lock,” she sings. “People ask me how you’re doing, I wanna say amazing / But the truth is that I don’t know.”
Things get even spicier in the second verse when Hilary hints that the feud stemmed from jealousy.
“And if it’s ‘cos you’re jealous / God knows I would sell it all then break you off the bigger half.”
The song continues with Hilary saying she wishes they could hear each other out and “get back to how [they] were as kids”.
The Younger star first debuted the song on her Small Rooms, Big Nerves tour in London last month, which marked her first headline performance in 18 years, and appeared to get emotional towards the end of the performance.
Meanwhile, another new song on Hilary’s album called “The Optimist” appears to address her strained relationship with her dad Robert, as she sings, “I wish I could sleep on planes and that my father would really love me”.
The Hilary Duff and Haylie Duff feud, explained
TikToker Jordy Cray shared a viral video in 2022 that pointed out that Hilary and Haylie — who were once super close and acted alongside one another in Lizzie McGuire and the 2006 film Material Girls — were no longer liking each other’s posts. He also noticed they had suddenly stopped appearing in photos together (they have not been photographed together since 2019) and that Hilary’s husband Matthew Koma was not following Haylie.
Hilary seemingly confirmed the rift in a November 2025 interview with Rolling Stone when she admitted to struggling with “family drama” — and haven’t we all. She also spoke about her “complicated” family dynamic in an interview with Glamour this week, emphasising that “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,” she said. “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.”
While many have guessed that the sisterly squabble could be down to politics — as Haylie is reportedly a Republican and Hilary is a Democrat — goss guru DeuxMoi has claimed their estrangement actually stemmed from their partners. Apparently, Hilary’s husband Matthew doesn’t get along with Haylie or her fiancé Matthew Rosenberg, who have been engaged since 2014.
The feud was dug back up last month when fans noticed that Haylie had liked Ashley Tisdale’s post about being part of a “toxic” mum group — which allegedly included Hilary, Mandy Moore and Meghan Trainor.
The drama is very much alive and well, but fingers crossed Hilary and Haylie can work it out on the remix.
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