Overview
- During a Wednesday, March 25 radio interview in Toronto, Murray said he invited Duff to the 2003 Freaky Friday premiere without realizing she and Lindsay Lohan were in a dispute.
- He said the invite was part of building comfort for a big kissing scene in A Cinderella Story, since the co‑stars had little free time to get to know each other.
- Duff recently recalled that she crashed the premiere at Murray’s urging, and Lohan later showed up at Duff’s Cheaper by the Dozen premiere in what was reported as payback.
- Murray added that he did not expect fallout at the time and contrasted the pre‑social‑media era with today, when such moves read as obvious signals.
- Duff has said she and Lohan resolved the rift years ago, a détente she described with a friendly check‑in at a club, and coverage now frames the episode as a nostalgic tabloid‑era misunderstanding linked to their overlapping Aaron Carter romances.