Hilary Duff and husband Matthew Koma are a bonafide “unit”— but once a year, the power couple gets into a drag-out, explosive fight.
“Everyone’s like, ‘How is it working with your husband? Do you guys fight a lot?’” Duff, 38, told Dakota Fanning while chatting with her for Interview’s Monday, February 23, story. “I’m like, ‘We literally never fight.’”
After Fanning, a good friend of the couple, said, “Yeah, you guys never really fight,” Duff clarified that things can get scrappy between her and Koma, 38, whom she wed in 2019.
“Well, that’s not true. We have one drag-out fight once a year,” the Lizzie McGuire alum revealed. “He actually brought it up the other day. He was like, ‘We haven’t had a fight in such a long time.’ I’m like, ‘Are you ready?’”
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Fanning, 32, laughed, asking, “Are you ready?”
“I’m not,” Duff confessed. “Last time I threw his phone in a Bougainvillea bush and it felt so good.”
The “Roomates” singer recalled, “It was during the [January 2025] fires [in Los Angeles]. We had been displaced, we had all the f***ing kids, and we just needed to have it out.” (Duff and Koma took in pals Mandy Moore and Taylor Goldsmith and their children after their home in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood was destroyed.)
Duff — who shares son Luca, 13, with ex-husband Mike Comrie and daughters Banks, 7, Mae, 4, and Townes, 21 months, with Koma — added, “But we don’t usually fight.”
She pointed out that while working together for her new album, Luck … or Something, fighting wasn’t on the menu.
“I don’t speak this language. He makes music all day, every day since he was 15 years old. So I’m like, ‘That sound, what is that? Get that out of here,’” Duff remembered, noting that Koma was almost like a translator for her during the recording process.
She added that her husband “also knows my style and he’s got his pulse on the cool factor.”
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“He definitely elevates me and my taste beyond belief,” Duff gushed. “After 10, 15 years of not making a record, I wanted it to feel like a body of work for people who grew up listening to me and waited a really long time to hear from me. It feels really cohesive.”
Duff sang her spouse’s praises during her conversation with Fanning, telling her that she had “comfort” in knowing that Koma had her back.
“Having that guy in my corner — it sounds so cheesy to say, but waking up every day and taking on the things in our world — we’re such a unit,” the Younger actress shared. “Growing up in the industry, I felt like a lone rider for such a long time. That’s such a dorky word, but I was like, ‘I’m tough. I’ve got this.’ It took me a really long time to accept how much he could take off of my plate.”
Duff explained that Koma being “insanely talented” also helped her feel at ease working on her new album.
“I wasn’t interested in making a record with anyone else. I was like, ‘It has to just be me and you,’” she recalled. “The most honest stuff came from that because he has a front row to my life and everything I’ve experienced, the really difficult times and the really easy good times that made me who I am.”
