Hilary Duff Admits She Crashed Lindsay Lohan’s Freaky Friday Premiere

More than 20 years after their rumored teen rivalry made tabloid headlines, Hilary Duff is looking back at her past with Lindsay Lohan — and it sounds like there’s no bad blood left.

Appearing on the “Call Her Daddy” podcast this week, Duff admitted that she once intentionally showed up at the 2003 premiere of Freaky Friday, the hit comedy starring Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis.

At the time, Duff and Lohan were often described as “rivals” in the media. So when Lohan later attended the premiere of Duff’s film Cheaper by the Dozen that same year, Duff said she wasn’t exactly shocked.

“I’m sure my publicist will be like, ‘What the fuck are you doing?’” Duff joked on the podcast while reflecting on the premiere moment. “But now it’s so many years later.”

From Teen Tension to Peace

Freaky Friday
Cheaper by the Dozen

The early 2000s were peak teen-star territory. Duff was riding high as the lead of Lizzie McGuire, while Lohan had become a household name thanks to The Parent Trap and later roles.

The rumored feud between the two young stars began around 2002 and was widely linked to fellow teen idol Aaron Carter. Carter dated Duff before briefly moving on to Lohan, fueling headlines and fan drama at the time.

Years later, Carter admitted he had dated Duff for about a year and a half before starting to see Lohan, saying he “got a little bored” and wanted to get to know someone else. Duff and Carter later rekindled their romance before officially ending things in 2003.

The Premiere Plot Twist

Duff also suggested that Chad Michael Murray may have unknowingly stirred the pot. Murray starred opposite Lohan in Freaky Friday before appearing with Duff in A Cinderella Story the following year.

According to Duff, Murray invited her to attend the Freaky Friday premiere as his guest.

“He was like, ‘You should come with me,’” Duff recalled. “And I was like, ‘Mm-hm. Probably I should.’”

While the move may have raised eyebrows at the time, Duff now looks back on it with humor.

Making Peace at the Club

The real turning point came years later during a chance encounter at a nightclub.

Duff shared that Lohan approached her and simply asked, “Are we good?”

Duff’s response: “We’re good.”

The two even took a celebratory shot together.

“It was amazing,” Duff said, describing the moment as a genuine clearing of the air after years of media-fueled tension.

Looking Ahead

The former teen rivals have long since moved on from their early-2000s drama. Duff also spoke warmly about Carter following his death in 2022, sharing a tribute to him at the time.

These days, Duff has plenty to celebrate. She recently released her first album in more than a decade, Luck… or Something, and many dates on her upcoming world tour have already sold out.

As for the so-called feud? It seems it’s firmly in the past — proof that even the most talked-about teen rivalries can mellow with time.