Hilary Duff Has Spoken
We finally know what Hilary Duff thought about Ashley Tisdale’s “Toxic Mom Group” essay in The Cut. And it’s…not much. “I mean, this is not new for me,” she recently told the Los Angeles Times, “I’ve had this since I was maybe 15 and starting to get followed around by paparazzi. Everything starts getting documented and everyone knows my life and all the players in it.”
Translation: You don’t think I know how to handle a little girl-on-girl drama in the press? I’m Lizzie fucking McGuire, bitch! I was in a love triangle with Lindsay Lohan and Aaron Carter when I was 13 years old. This is nothing.
While she didn’t exactly directly address Tisdale, she did note the particulars of viral drama in the modern age and what happens when “talking heads on TikTok” get involved. “It’s hard because you’re like, ‘Wait whoa, that person kind of got it right, and ‘Whoa, that person doesn’t know what they’re talking about.’”
“I saw something that was like, ‘None of the moms at school actually like her and neither do the teachers,’ and I was like, ‘First of all…,'” she continued, before quickly confirming that she loves everyone. “By the way, the women at school are lovely and I’m obsessed with all of them.”
As to whether or not she’s able to tune out all the drama, Duff says it “depends on the day.” Though she clearly has a slightly higher tolerance for it all than her husband, Matthew Koma, who—less than a week after Tisdale’s essay—shared his own mocked-up version of the cover. May a love that’s willing to get this petty with Photoshop find us all.
While the toxic mom group drama seems to be a mere blip on Hilary’s radar, the early aughts star got significantly more emotional when talking about her relationship with her sister, Haylie Duff. Rumors that the two are estranged have bandied about the internet for years now, and were only fueled when Haylie was caught “liking” Tisdale’s Toxic Mom Group post on Instagram. The two then hung out at the end of January.
Speaking with CBS Morning, Hilary confirmed that the track “We Don’t Talk” on her latest album luck…or something is, in fact, about her strained relationship with Haylie.
“It’s definitely about my sister and just absolutely the most lonely part of my existence,” she said. “It’s not having my sister in my life at the moment, and I really struggled with thinking about including that on the record.”
You hear that, Ashley Tisdale? Hilary Duff doesn’t need The Cut to spread her interpersonal drama around the world. She has an album to do that.
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