Worried he might find her so yesterday.
Hilary Duff reveals she’s constantly worried that husband Matthew Koma might wake up one day and want to be with someone else.
“I always think Matt’s going to leave me for some coolio indie songwriter that he works with,” Duff, 38, admitted to Rolling Stone in an interview published Thursday, adding that it’s a recurring dream she has.
She addressed the insecurities in her new song “Holiday Party,” in which she sings, “In my head you live another life / Where you f–k all my friends / And wish someone else could’ve been your wife.”
Koma, who was part of the interview, quickly shut down his wife’s fears.
“Which is so insane,” the songwriter, also 38, responded, adding, “But also very real.Those are real things to get hung up on emotionally.”
The couple first started dating in 2017 when they were set up through Koma’s talent scout.
“We ended up hanging for two hours, just talking about music,” the “Lizzie McGuire” actress said. “Matt sent an email to his manager afterwards and was like, ‘She’s really pretty.’”
Koma quickly corrected his other half, recalling that he actually wrote that he wanted to marry her in the email.
Duff and Koma tied the knot in an intimate ceremony at their home in Los Angeles before welcoming daughters Banks, 7, Mae, 4, and Townes, 20 months.
The “Mature” artist is also mom to son Luca, 13, with ex-husband Mike Comrie. She and Comrie were married in August 2010 and separated in January 2014.
Duff took a hiatus from music to focus on motherhood before returning to the studio for the first time in 2024.
Koma served as a cowriter and producer on the “A Cinderella Story” star’s upcoming album, “Luck… or Something.”
“He was like, ‘We just have to make what we think is cool, what you want to listen to in your car,’” Duff said about Koma. “He has a way of boiling everything down and making it super digestible for me.
“So that was the approach of the record. ‘What keeps me up at night? What are my insecurities?’ The themes are what 10 years has brought on. It was super healing to make something that felt exactly like me, and where I am right now.”
The new record, which comes out Friday, also includes songs about her estrangement from sister Haylie Duff, as well as her complicated relationship with her dad.
On the track “We Don’t Talk,” Hilary sings, “Cause we come from the same home, the same blood/A different combination but the same lock.”
“I feel almost like when I got divorced [in 2015], where I dealt with it privately, and then the news comes out and you’re like, ‘OK, great. I’m going to deal with this all over again,’” she told Rolling Stone.
Duff called the rift the “most lonely part of my life,” which left her struggling to know if she should share that with the public.
“People have known my life since I was a child,” the Disney Channel alum continued. “And so they know all the characters in it and they know what I’m talking about. For me, it was important to be open about that theme. It genuinely came from the heart.”
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