Hilary Duff

But like it's really hard and everyone's taken sacrifices for it, you know, including my kids.

Comes at a huge cost.

Being in the industry comes with a huge cost.

And it's so hard to complain when your life looks shiny and you have money, you know?

Completely.

One, I just want to say I'm eternally grateful for them.

I would not have a music career without them.

I was not like accepted by the music industry by any stretch of the imagination.

They were rabid for me and my music.

And like I was...

Of course, Lizzie McGuire being that launching pad and them like loving me from that, I'm so grateful.

Of course, I had my feelings of having to like accept that part of my life, but I'm so like, I love her now too.

And I connect and I get it, you know?

But like when I got into music, the fans, like I was, you know, doing like arenas and stuff.

Like that was, and I didn't really have a ton of radio play and I didn't have like,

It just wasn't a thing yet that like actors could just become musicians.

Like I'm just so appreciative that like my music connected with people and like had legs for 20 years.

And then I get to be at a point now in my life where I can like see what it meant to them and to me.

And then just getting to like not be shy about like, I'm not reintroducing myself at all.

I think I just needed like a second to like live some life and like they lived a whole bunch of life and now we get to like connect as adults and talk about what the hell that's like.