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has bared her soul about her checkered relationship with her father, after taking brutal swipes at him and and her sister Haylie .
Her parents Robert and Susan Duff divorced in 2008, 20 years after they exchanged vows and four years after the end of Hilary's star-making show Lizzie McGuire.
Robert spent 10 days in a jail for contempt after a judge found that he had sold family assets without court approval, thus violating an injunction.
He later confessed: 'I was unfaithful to our marriage. I feel very badly about that and the effect it had on the girls,' while appearing on Inside Edition.
This Friday Hilary, 38, released her latest album called Luck... or Something, with a song called The Optimist that contains the bristling lyric: 'I wish I could sleep on planes and that my father would really love me.'
She has now explained the nature of her relationship with Robert, saying: 'There’s times where I talk to my dad and times where I don’t talk to my dad. I do have a pretty sunny disposition, but a lot of s*** has gone down, and that’s life,' via Rolling Stone.
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Hilary Duff has bared her soul about her checkered relationship with her father; she is pictured with her parents Robert and Susan Duff in 2003, five years before their messy divorce
She recently wrote a song about her estrangement from her sister Haylie, which she discussed in an emotional interview promoting her new album on CBS Mornings
Hilary produced her latest album alongside her musician husband Matthew Koma, with whom she shares her daughters Banks, seven, Mae, four, and Townes, one.
The erstwhile Disney Channel child star also co-parents a 13-year-old son called Luca with her first husband, retired ice hockey player Mike Comrie.
'And just absolutely the most lonely part of my existence is not having my sister in my life at the moment,' she said, explaining that she 'struggled with thinking about including that on the record' before deciding to do so 'because it's my reality.'
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Hilary observed that 'it’s funny as a person that exists in the world without my other half, so many people are having that experience.'
She confessed she was 'not sure' that the song would 'help' repair her relationship with Haylie and that 'I don’t know if she'll hear it. I don't know how she'll react to it. But it is a really personal part of my life that doesn't get to stay personal.'
The How I Met Your Father actress added that she was 'not trying to say something bad, it's literally just my experience. That’s really all I feel like sharing.'
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