Hilary Duff Confirms New Song ‘We Don’t Talk’ Is About Sister Haylie

People were already pretty sure that Hilary Duff‘s new song “We Don’t Talk” was about a falling out with her sister, Haylie, but in a Friday (Feb. 20) interview with CBS Mornings on the day of her album Luck … or Something‘s release, the singer-actress laid any remaining doubts to rest.

When correspondent Anthony Mason asked whether “We Don’t Talk” is about her rift with her older sister, Hilary didn’t beat around the bush. “Yeah, it is,” she said, nodding pensively. “It’s definitely about my sister, and just — absolutely the most lonely part of my existence is not having my sister in my life at the moment.”

The Lizzie McGuire alum went on to say that she “really struggled” with whether to include the revealing track on the record, but decided to do so after realizing that “so many people” have had similar fallings-out with siblings. “It’s my truth,” Hilary explained. “It was honestly healing to say. It’s hard to watch your life unfold on the internet sometimes with talking heads on TikTok speculating … sometimes they’re wrong, and sometimes they’re right. All of that is a crazy thing to process.”

“We Don’t Talk” is one of 11 tracks on Hilary’s first album in a decade. On the song, she sings lyrics such as “We come from the same home, the same blood” and wonders if Haylie doesn’t speak to her anymore out of envy. “If it’s ’cause you’re jealous/ God knows I would sell it all, then break you off the bigger half,” she laments.

Hilary looked dismayed when discussing whether she hopes Haylie will hear the song. “I don’t think that that would help,” she said. “I think I have to just exist as a person on my own and do what I want to do. I hope that for everyone that is where I’m sitting, you have to do what you want to do.”

“It’s taken me a lot of time to get there and to live that way and to not care what the noise is gonna be around it and just be me,” she added on the morning show. “I don’t know if she’ll hear it, I don’t know how she’ll react to it. It is a really personal part of my life that doesn’t get to stay personal, so I might as well say how it is for me as an experience.”

As a former child star, Hilary’s personal life has been publicly scrutinized for most of her life. On another Luck … or Something song called “The Optimist,” she seemingly touches on issues with parents Robert and Susan, who welcomed Haylie in 1985 followed by the How I Met Your Father actress two years later.

But Hilary’s relationship with Haylie specifically has been more speculated upon in recent months after Ashley Tisdale published an op-ed about leaving a “toxic” mom group, of which the internet believes Hilary was a member. Later, Haylie posted about hanging out with the High School Musical star despite Hilary’s husband, Matthew Koma, calling Tisdale “tone deaf” in a post mocking the mom-group essay.

Watch Hilary open up about her relationship with her sister on CBS Mornings below.