Hilary Duff Just Responded To Claims Her Mom Was A “Super Intense” Manager During Her Disney Channel Era

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Hilary Duff is mounting the grounds consecutive astir claims she had a "super intense" momager.

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As you already know, Hilary was a Disney Channel superstar, arguably 1 of the Mount Rushmore of Disney kid stars from the aboriginal aughts, from her Emmy-nominated bid Lizzie McGuire (2001-2004).

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Before the mainstream occurrence of her Disney-related projects and her chart-topping euphony career, Hilary chiefly had insignificant roles successful TV shows you astir apt don't adjacent remember. But done it all, determination was a changeless successful Hilary's country — her manager and mother, Susan Duff.

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On a March 16 occurrence of Mythical Kitchen, Hilary talked astir the challenges of being a kid star, including being fired astatine property 11 from the NBC drama bid Daddio and being replaced by twins, overmuch similar Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen successful Full House oregon Dylan and Cole Sprouse successful Friends.

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Based connected her conversation, it appeared that her parent was the pillar of enactment who helped her prosecute her dreams contempt galore challenges, alternatively than the antagonistic archetype of a controlling signifier mom. "I was ne'er pushed into acting. I was ne'er pushed into singing," she said. "My mom, you know, knew that my sister and I loved performing."

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Now, arsenic a parent of four, Hilary tin adjacent subordinate to her mother's passionateness for helping her children prosecute their ambitions. "Back erstwhile I was doing it, nary 1 was acting wherever I came from, truthful everyone thought it was like, 'She has a signifier mom,'" she said.

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Hilary's defence of her ma follows a 2025 interrogation connected The Joe Vulpis Podcast, wherever Frankie Muniz discussed his acquisition connected Lizzie McGuire and his interactions with Hilary's "stage mom."

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"I was connected the acceptable of Lizzie McGuire, and I was successful Hilary's dressing room, and her ma was there. Her mom, you know, I'm going to accidental was the epitome of a signifier ma — momager. She was intense. Hilary was truthful cool, we had an awesome relationship, but her ma was similar ace intense."

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When Hilary's ma asked him what helium was up to that summer, helium said, "I go, 'Oh, I'm filming this movie wherever I'm playing similar a inferior James Bond. It's called Agent Cody Banks,'" Frankie said. "And she's like, 'Is determination a miss that could beryllium Hilary, that would beryllium bully for Hilary?' And I was like, 'Yeah, but I don't know."

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Apparently, the adjacent day, Frankie learned from Susan, to his surprise, that Hilary was present his co-star successful the 2003 enactment drama film.

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"I looked astatine [Susan] and I went, 'No she's not!'" Frankie continued. "She's like, 'No, yeah, yeah, she is. They signed the declaration past night.' And I'm like, 'The movie you knew thing astir yesterday, you signed... how, it's not possible! It's not humanly possible.'"

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Frankie admitted that helium didn't person the champion acquisition with Susan Duff connected the acceptable of Agent Cody Banks. "I was precise bittersweet erstwhile Hilary's ma would travel connected set," helium revealed. "I'm being honest, you cognize what I mean? I'm aged capable to wherever I recognize I don't caput radical knowing the truth."

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Despite perspectives similar Frankie's, Hilary defended her mom's beingness arsenic her manager during that time, particularly fixed that the blueprint followed by Disney stars similar Selena Gomez, Miley Cyrus, and Demi Lovato didn't adjacent beryllium yet.

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"It was truly bully that I had my ma successful the corner... for amended oregon for worse," Hilary said. "I deliberation determination was evidently mistakes made and, like, a learning process, but it's hard to beryllium similar a household up against similar a machine."

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"I'm ace grateful for her," Hilary said erstwhile asked however she felt astir her mom's relation arsenic her manager backmost then. "There are things my parents did wherever I'm like, I'm decidedly filing that successful similar 'I won't bash that' and past there's a full pocketbook afloat of things that they did really, truly right, and I'm appreciative of, ya know?"

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