<p id=”par-1_56″>Hilary Duff recently <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/news/hilary-duffs-new-song-could-be-about-joel-madden-or-leonardo-dicaprio.html/”>released a new song</a> about a relationship she had with an older man. Duff said that while the relationship wasn’t illegal, the age gap was inappropriate. Duff said that while it was hard to defend the relationship, she found it difficult to date people her own age, given her <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/news/hilary-duff-briefly-quit-hollywood-after-lizzie-mcguire-made-child-star.html/”>work in the industry</a>.</p>
<h2 class=”wp-block-heading” id=”h-hilary-duff-wrote-a-new-song-about-a-relationship-with-an-older-man”>Hilary Duff wrote a new song about a relationship with an older man</h2>
<p id=”par-2_18″>Duff recently released a new song, “Mature.” In it, she sings about a relationship with an older man.</p>
<p id=”par-3_34″>“She looks like she could be your daughter / Like me before I got smarter / When I was flattered to hear you say / ‘You’re so mature for your age, babe, ‘ oh.”</p>
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<p id=”par-4_32″>Duff said that this was inspired by one of <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/news/hilary-duff-calls-beginning-relationship-matthew-koma-naughty.html/”>her real relationships</a>, but she said she wouldn’t reveal who she’s singing about. “If I wanted to say who, I would,” she said.</p>
<p id=”par-5_46″>“It’s definitely about a relationship that I had. It was very brief with someone older than me, and that was not illegal, but inappropriate when you have this much time removed from it,” she told <a target=”_blank” href=”https://www.glamour.com/story/hilary-duff-2026-cover” rel=”noreferrer noopener”>Glamour</a>. “Everybody speculates, but I’m not sure they got it right….”</p>
<p id=”par-6_20″>Duff rose to fame as a child, and admitted that this made it difficult to date people her own age.</p>
<p id=”par-7_50″>“I think that it’s super nuanced and it’s hard to defend certain things that have happened in my life,” she said. “But the one thing that I’ll say is, working as an adult since I was 10 years old, it’s very hard to have relationships with people your own age.”</p>
<h2 class=”wp-block-heading” id=”h-joel-madden-reacted-to-her-new-song”>Joel Madden reacted to her new song</h2>
<p id=”par-8_36″>A number of people have speculated that Duff’s song could be about Joel Madden. They started dating when she was 16, and he was 25. Despite this, Madden shared his wife Nicole Richie’s post praising it.</p>
<p id=”par-9_32″>“‘Mature’ is not the word I would use to describe us,” she wrote on a picture of herself and Duff laughing together in the grass, “but regardless, this song is a BOP.”</p>
<p id=”par-10_23″>Madden reposted this to his account. Duff has said that she and her husband, Matthew Koma, have gotten close with Richie and Madden.</p>
<h2 class=”wp-block-heading” id=”h-what-is-hilary-duff-s-relationship-history”>What is Hilary Duff’s relationship history?</h2>
<p id=”par-11_27″>Duff is <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/news/hilary-duff-admitted-not-instant-spark-husband-matthew-koma.html/”>currently married to Koma</a>, a musician. They’ve been together on and off since 2017. Before this, Duff was briefly involved with her trainer, Jason Walsh. </p>
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<p id=”par-12_47″>Duff was also married to NHL player Mike Comrie. The pair started dating in 2007 and tied the knot in 2010. They welcomed one child before <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/news/hilary-duffs-dating-history-divorced-mike-comrie.html/”>separating in 2014</a>. Duff said that she and Comrie have maintained a friendly co-parenting relationship in the years since their divorce. </p>
<p id=”par-13_33″>The singer and actor’s two-year relationship with Madden came before her marriage to Comrie. Before this, she briefly dated Frankie Muniz and had a three-year relationship with Aaron Carter from 2000 to 2003.</p>