At the peak of her career, Lindsay Lohan was losing friends like no other — her alleged bad behavior saw her friendship with the likes of Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian come to an end, but many seem to forget the infamous feud LiLo once shared with Hilary Duff.
While these two are probably over their rivalry from almost two decades ago, back in 2001, Hilary and Lindsay couldn’t stand each other, and it was all because of former pop star Aaron Carter, who dumped the Lizzie McGuire star because “he got a little bored.”
The “Come Clean” singer was said to have been devastated by the split, but in a true petty manner, she wasn’t going to let Lindsay get the last laugh. So what happened after Aaron got with LiLo, and where does Hilary’s relationship with the latter stand today?
Hilary Duff’s Feud With Lindsay Lohan
It was during a 2001 taping for an episode of Hilary’s show Lizzie McGuire where she would cross paths with Aaron, and it wasn’t long before the two became friends before deciding they were going to officially start seeing one another.
One shouldn’t forget that Hilary was around 14 when she got in a relationship with Aaron, so it’s fair to assume that he was probably her first love.
In a previous interview, Aaron opened up about his short-lived romance with Hilary, insisting that after just over a year of dating, he was ready to move on because dating the blonde beauty was boring and he seemed more than ready to move on.
"I was dating her for like a year and a half,” he shared. "Then I just got a little bored so I went and I started getting to know Lindsay, dating Lindsay.”
While his next relationship was with the Mean Girls actress, Aaron says they only dated for a couple of months, which was believed to have been because he allegedly cheated on her.
And while both Hilary and Lindsay were no longer with Aaron by 2003, the 33-year-old former Disney Channel star still seemed hurt because she dared to show up to LiLo’s movie premiere of Freaky Friday… despite not being on the invitation list.
Many believed that Hilary being attendance was purely to upstage Lindsay’s moment, and it appeared to have worked because the press seemed more focused on her presence at the event than to focus their attention on the actual star of the movie.
Lindsay certainly wasn’t going to let the PR stunt slide, so she did the exact same thing to Hilary at her premiere of Cheaper by the Dozen. It was incredibly petty from both ladies to show up to each other’s premieres, but it also brought a lot of attention to their respective films, and as they say, any publicity is good publicity.
Things appeared to escalate the following year when Lindsay had allegedly called up Chad Michael Murray — who was her co-star in Freaky Friday — after he was cast to star alongside Hilary in the movie A Cinderella Story.
LiLo had allegedly been talking smack about Hilary, which only worsened the pair’s feud. At the Jingle Ball event in 2004, when Lindsay’s then-eight-year-old brother Cody asked Hilary’s then-boyfriend, Good Charlotte star Joel Madden, for an autograph, he confronted Lindsay’s mother, Dina Lohan, at the annual occasion and demand that her daughter apologise for the not-so-nice remarks she had made about Hilary to her fellow industry peers.
Things died down soon after that, with Lindsay choosing to take the high road and antagonize other celebrities as her career slowly but surely started to crumble, while Hilary stayed on a clean path without the plentiful arrests that her rival endured as the years went on.
But in 2007, during an interview with People, Hilary decided to bury the hatchet once and for all, telling the publication that whatever issues she’s had with Lindsay in the past, they are long forgotten. "We are both adults and whatever happened, happened when we were young. It’s over.”
Of course, this didn’t mean that Hilary and Lindsay were going to become the best of friends — in fact, it seems more like the mother of two just wanted people to move on from the feud because she was clearly over instigating any further drama with the Hollywood star.
Since clearing the air during her candid chat with People, fans have yet to see Hilary and Lindsay in the same room together, so clearly they aren’t friends or acquaintances, but they appear to have ended their feud, which is more than enough.