As Hilary Duff is preparing to release Luck … or Something , her first album in more than a decade, she revealed her career might not have panned out the way it has if it weren’t for getting fired from a show when she was 11 years old.

Discussing her return to music for Variety ’s “Know Their Lyrics” video series, Duff said she had been cast in an unnamed TV show but was abruptly replaced with twins so the production could work longer hours without violating child labor laws. “I got fired,” Duff said [ laughs ]. “[I was] 11 years old, and I got fired from a job. It was absolutely devastating.”

Duff said she had decided to return to her home state of Texas to be a “normal kid” when “my manager called my mom and was like, Disney wants to see Hilary for this thing.” The “thing

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