Hilary Duff’s husband, Matthew Koma, is addressing his better half’s “family struggles” amid her alleged estrangement from sister, Haylie Duff.
“In June 2023, 8 years into our road trip from musical collaborators to flirtatious coworkers to parents to husband & wife, she rolls over one morning and says, ‘My turn. I wanna make an album,” Koma, 38, wrote via Instagram on Friday, February 20, celebrating the release of his wife’s new album, Luck … Or Something.
“My wife is one of the most humble people I’ve ever encountered,” he continued. “Her lack of ability to grasp what she means to people is the head scratcher of all head scratchers until you realize that disposition is what makes her, her… She’s rooted so deeply in her real life, she doesn’t define herself by commercially perceived successes or failures, and she loves / is fiercely protective of the normal, unconditional family bubble she’s worked so hard to build despite not always having a road map to follow.
Koma added, “We made this album for her. She didn’t need it, nothing was riding on it, she was just simply ready to express herself through music in a really honest way, and as someone who’s always so conned with other people feeling safe to be themselves, she deserved so much to allow that space for herself. She shared her truth – the fun parts, the intrusive thoughts, what keeps her up at night, family struggles & their inherent sadness the guilt tells you you aren’t entitled to feel because you’ve perceivably been dealt a lucky hand.”
Koma’s touching post came the same day that Hilary, 38, broke down while discussing her fractured relationship with Haylie, 41, during a Friday appearance on CBS Mornings while promoting her work.
“[It’s] just absolutely the most lonely part of my existence is not having my sister in my life at the moment,” Hilary said during the broadcast. “[I] really struggled with including that on the record.” Hilary’s newest album, Luck … Or Something, includes a song called “We Don’t Talk” that she said is “definitely” about her strained relationship with Haylie.
“As a person that exists in the world without my, like, other half, so many people are having that experience,” she said. “A lot of conversations I have with people are, like, ‘Yeah, me too.’”
The singer went on to explain that she ultimately decided to include “We Don’t Talk” on her new album, which dropped Friday, because it’s her “truth.”
“It’s my truth, and like I said, so many people are having this experience,” she said. “It’s hard because I am me, and people know everything about my life since I was a child. I didn’t necessarily choose that part, but it’s my reality. It was honestly, like, healing to say.”
Hilary continued, “It’s hard to watch your life unfold on the internet sometimes with talking heads on TikTok speculating this, that and the other. Sometimes they’re wrong and sometimes they’re right. All of that is just a crazy thing to process.”
On Friday, Hilary’s husband alluded to the pressure many artists feel when they grow up “in this industry” and are around people who “make decisions for you.”
“This is what flying your own plane looks and feels like,” he added of his wife’s latest album. “No board room of people got to discuss her without her in the room then weigh in on what’s best for her career, no old white guys got to tell her what songs to record and why it was ‘smart’ to work with so-and-so, no managers to to work her to death so their commissions were sweeter… she chose the path, she made the songs, she made the calls, she flew the plane.”
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