Hilary Duff

As painful as it feels to share, when I decided to make this record, I could only talk about the things that I've gone through.

I'm so excited to be here.

Thank you.

I swear to God, I'm not trying to do an album plug right now, but I just feel

Bucky.

I feel like whatever reason my purpose is to be here is like to connect with people.

And I've had the joy of being able to do it for 20 plus years.

And some of that's felt high and some of that's felt low.

But I genuinely feel like people are excited to like meet me and say hi and like have a

It feels normal.

Like it feels really like genuine always.

And I'm always met with that.

And it's a really, you know, I'm not saying it's not a big responsibility sometimes, but, you know, being met with like excitement and someone being like, you've meant so much to me.

It's a lovely feeling.

part of the reason this, you know, return to music is feeling so good to me is just that it's like, feels completely like rooted in my truth and who I am and what I live with.

And, you know, introducing people to my past 10 years and knowing that we are going to connect on many levels of experiences and

feelings and disappointments and celebrations and like everything in between.

So that's kind of what I want them to know about me now and who I want them to meet.

Like they have known me my whole life.

I have, you know, played a character that never grew up on TV.