"I think it's really challenging for one person to have major success in a family," she said in a Feb. 20 interview with CBS News while discussing the song, which includes lyrics like "I wish I could sleep on planes/And that my father would really love me," and "He'd show up on my wedding day/He'd tell me how he wish he'd stayed/And that he never meant to disappoint me."
"In 'The Optimist,' that's what it feels like for me," she continued. "And I'm sure it has to feel like that for him. Although I'm the kid. And it's been hard to get back to a place of health."
"A lot of s--- has gone down, and that’s life," she added.
Hilary Duff with Her Parents, Dad Robert Duff and Mom Susan DuffGetty
"Susan was very consumed with the girls' careers… We simply grew apart," he told the outlet at the time. "I was unfaithful to our marriage. I feel very badly about that and the effect that it had on the girls."
Duff sang about the betrayal in several songs off her 2007 album, Dignity, and it seems the father-daughter duo still struggles to reconcile fully to this day.
Who Is Hilary Duff's Father, Bob Duff?
Though he mostly stays out of the spotlight, Duff's father, Bob, is a success in his own right. Long before Duff rose to fame as the star of Lizzie McGuire or a pop princess, Bob was already a millionaire as the owner of a chain of successful convenience stores.
Duff's new album luck... or something was released on Friday, Feb. 20, followed by her Lucky Me Tour later in 2026.
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