Hilary Duff and husband Matthew However are a bonafide “unit”— however annually, the facility couple will get right into a drag-out, explosive battle.
“Everybody’s like, ‘How is it working together with your husband? Do you guys battle so much?’” Duff, 38, instructed Dakota Fanning whereas chatting together with her for Interview’s Monday, February 23, story. “I’m like, ‘We actually by no means battle.’”
After Fanning, an excellent buddy of the couple, mentioned, “Yeah, you guys by no means actually battle,” Duff clarified that issues can get scrappy between her and Koma, 38, whom she wed in 2019.
“Effectively, that’s not true. We’ve got one drag-out battle annually,” the Lizzie McGuire alum revealed. “He really introduced it up the opposite day. He was like, ‘We haven’t had a battle in such a very long time.’ I’m like, ‘Are you prepared?’”
Fanning, 32, laughed, asking, “Are you prepared?”
“I’m not,” Duff confessed. “Final time I threw his telephone in a Bougainvillea bush and it felt so good.”
The “Roomates” singer recalled, “It was in the course of the (January 2025) fires (in Los Angeles). We had been displaced, we had all of the f***ing children, and we simply wanted to have it out.” (Duff and Koma took in buddies Mandy Moore and Taylor Goldsmith and their kids after their residence within the Pacific Palisades neighborhood was destroyed.)

Matthew Koma, Hilary Duff, Luca, Banks, Mae and Townes.
Courtesy of Matthew Koma/InstagramDuff — who shares son Luca, 13, with ex-husband Mike Comrie and daughters Banks, 7, Mae, 4, and Townes, 21 monthswith Koma — added, “However we don’t normally battle.”
She identified that whereas working collectively for her new album, Luck … or One thing, preventing wasn’t on the menu.
“I don’t converse this language. He makes music all day, day-after-day since he was 15 years previous. So I’m like, ‘That sound, what’s that? Get that out of right here,’” Duff remembered, noting that Koma was nearly like a translator for her in the course of the recording course of.
She added that her husband “additionally is aware of my model and he’s received his pulse on the cool issue.”
“He positively elevates me and my style past perception,” Duff gushed. “After 10, 15 years of not making a report, I needed it to really feel like a physique of labor for individuals who grew up listening to me and waited a very very long time to listen to from me. It feels actually cohesive.”
Duff sang her partner’s praises throughout her dialog with Fanning, telling her that she had “consolation” in realizing that Koma had her again.

Matthew Koma, Hilary Duff.
Courtesy of Matthew Koma/Instagram“Having that man in my nook — it sounds so tacky to say, however waking up day-after-day and taking over the issues in our world — we’re such a unit,” the Youthful actress shared. “Rising up within the trade, I felt like a lone rider for such a very long time. That’s such a dorky phrase, however I used to be like, ‘I’m powerful. I’ve received this.’ It took me a very very long time to just accept how a lot he may take off of my plate.”
Duff defined that Koma being “insanely gifted” additionally helped her really feel comfortable engaged on her new album.
“I wasn’t curious about making a report with anybody else. I used to be like, ‘It has to simply be me and also you,’” she recalled. “Essentially the most trustworthy stuff got here from that as a result of he has a entrance row to my life and every little thing I’ve skilled, the actually troublesome instances and the very easy good instances that made me who I’m.”
