Hilary Duff Opens Up About Family Struggles

At age 38,  is now beginning to make music out of the painful memories from her past. 

Her upcoming album, Luck... or Something, contains several songs seemingly pulling back  and father Robert Duff. 

Now Hilary is offering rare insight into the tension in a new interview with Glamour, telling the outlet blood-related relatives aren't always intended to remain together. 

'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.' 

Hilary's parents endured a messy divorce that saw her father arrested for contempt of court.  

In 2008, Robert was arrested over the charge after a judge found he had allegedly sold family assets amid his divorce battle without receiving court permission, according to The Daily News. 

'I wish I could sleep on planes, and that my father would really love me,' Hilary sings of her father in the song Optimist. 

Duff is rumored to have endured a rift with her older sister Haylie, a feud which is seemingly alluded to in her song We Don't Talk