Hilary Duff Reveals Fear That Husband Matthew Koma Will Leave Her for an ‘Indie Songwriter’ as New Album Mines Insecurities

Hilary Duff has opened up about a recurring dream in which her husband, Matthew Koma, cheats on her and moves on with an indie songwriter — a fear she turned into music on her latest record. The admission, made in a Feb. 19 interview, underlines how the singer used personal anxieties as the emotional fuel for an album released the following day.

Hilary Duff on recurring dreams and the themes behind the new album

The new album was shaped around honest questions about what keeps her up at night, and Hilary Duff made clear that insecurity is a central theme. She spoke about having a persistent fear that her husband would leave her for someone he works with in the indie scene, and that fear became the subject of a track on the record.

That particular song, titled "Holiday Party, " emerged from those private worries; Matthew Koma, who helped produce the record, framed the track as a song rather than a literal account of real-life events. Duff said the album explores the emotional shifts that a decade of life has brought, focusing less on routine parenting details and more on the internal changes and vulnerabilities she experiences.

The record also addresses strained family relationships. Duff described a fractured relationship with her older sister and described on-and-off contact with her father as part of the loneliness and complexity she chose to put on the record. She weighed the decision to share those personal themes publicly, noting the responsibility she felt to be honest about that part of her life.

Matthew Koma’s role, musical background and family life

Matthew Koma is both a creative partner on the album and Duff’s husband. The two met while working on Duff’s fifth studio album and later married in 2019. They share three children together, and Duff also has a son from a prior marriage. The family details she referenced include daughters Banks, Mae, and Townes, and a son named Luca from an earlier relationship.

Koma has an established career as a songwriter and producer who has written and worked on material for major pop and electronic acts. His resume includes collaborations with a range of artists across pop and EDM, and he helped lead an indie-pop band formed with his brother. That band released a full-length album in 2024. Before that, Koma’s writing and production credits included co-writing breakthrough EDM hits that earned industry recognition and contributing to other high-profile pop projects, as well as co-writing and co-producing a comeback album for a major country artist that reached the top of the albums chart.

Beyond his production role on Duff’s new album, Koma’s career history includes both pop and indie efforts, and he previously dated a pop artist he collaborated with in the early 2010s. Those musical ties help explain the source of Hilary’s specific worry — that he might be drawn to someone in the indie songwriter world he now works in himself.

What’s next and why this matters

Hilary Duff framed the record as a kind of emotional inventory: the insecurities, the late-night thoughts, and the loneliness that can come with public life and private strain. By choosing to put those themes on the album, she invited listeners into the tension between public persona and private fear. With Matthew Koma involved both as creative collaborator and spouse, the project exposes a dynamic where professional and personal lives overlap.

Recent updates indicate these statements came from a Feb. 19 interview and that the album arrived the next day; details may evolve as the artist and collaborators discuss the record further. For now, the release stands as a candid artistic response to the anxieties and family complexities Duff chose to explore in her songwriting.