Hilary Duff on 'complicated' family dynamic amid sister feud

Hilary Duff said she was "ready" to explore her "complicated" family dynamic in her new album, addressing rifts with sister Haylie and their father, Bob Duff. She explained why two songs tackle family, saying, "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 added, "Just because you’re born into a family doesn’t mean that it always stays together," and acknowledged she had "a very complicated life." Her parents, Bob and Susan, divorced in 2008; she said their dynamic is "a very complicated" one and that she "felt ready" to share.

On the track "The Optimist" she sings, "I wish I could sleep on planes, and that my father would really love me." Another song, "We Don’t Talk," addresses her estrangement from Haylie with lines such as "Not even sure what it was about" and "If I did something different / Would you feel something different?

/ Would you at least let me hear you out?" She performed that song at London’s O2 Shepherd’s last month.

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