Hilary Duff’s Friendship With Joel Madden, Nicole Richie Explained
In fact, she continued, “I had a really great relationship with him, and we still have a great relationship, which is really good and unusual. He’s a good person, and I always will care about him.”
Declaring herself ready to “like a guy,” Duff, then 19, continued, “Dating is fun. I kind of feel like a guy! It’s, like, I can do it now. But I feel kind of wrong at the same time. I’ve never gotten to date before, so it’s kind of exciting. I’ve always just had a boyfriend, you know? I’m young!”
She later admitted, however, that falling for Madden when she was 16 had been “all-encompassing.”
“It was so intense,” Duff—then newly divorced from first husband Mike Comrie after six years of marriage—recalled in 2016 on Younger costar Nico Tortorella‘s The Love Bomb Podcast. “It was my life. It was like every minute of my day. It was pretty major.”
More major? Meeting Matthew Koma. She and the musician have now been married since 2019 and share daughters Banks, 7, and Mae, 5, and son Townes, 2, plus she’s mom to son Luca, 14, with Comrie.
