Source : PERTHNOW NEWS
Hilary Duff has opened up on why she has used her new album to address long standing family issues as Aussie fans prepare to sit in online queues for tour tickets.
The 38-year-old is embarking on a world tour this year armed with her new album Luck…or something set for release on February 20.
The album, which marks her first since 2015’s Breathe In. Breathe Out, contains several songs that appear to expose her tumultuous relationship with her older sister Haylie and father Robert.
In an interview with Glamour magazine, the Lizzie McGuire star revealed why she is choosing now to address her “complicated life”.
“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 told the publication.
“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…. 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.”
Duff’s parents, Susan and Robert, went through a messy divorce that saw her father arrested for contempt of court in 2008 after he allegedly sold family assets without receiving court permission, according to The Daily News.
We Don’t Talk seems to address a feud with Haylie, who she hasn’t been photographed with since 2019, describing the breakdown as an “emotional eviction.”
“Don’t know when it happened / Not even sure what it was about,” she sings.
“People ask me how you’re doing / I wanna say amazing, but the truth is that I don’t know / What I always end up saying is how we don’t talk / we don’t talk about it / We don’t talk about anything anymore.”
On another track, The Optimist, she sings, “I wish I could sleep on planes, and that my father would really love me.”
The With Love singer is set to launch her Lucky Me tour on June 22 in Florida before stopping off in cities around the US, Mexico, the UK, Canada and Australia.
She is set to take the stage at RAC Arena on October 29.
Australian superfans keen to get first dibs on tickets will try their luck in the Mastercard presale on Wednesday at 2pm.
General public tickets go on sale on Friday at 1pm with fans limited to six tickets per transaction.
Ticket types range from general admission to expensive VIP packages that give access to a soundcheck where Duff will perform one song, a backstage tour, early entry and a merchandise bundle.
Duff and her husband Matthew Koma have three daughters together; Banks, seven, Mae, four and Townes, one.
Duff also has a 13-year-old son, Luca, with her ex-husband, Mike Comrie.
Her kids will see some shows but aren’t touring with her.
