TORONTO — Hilary Duff says her marriage to Canadian hockey player Mike Comrie “wasn’t working well enough” for them to stay together and she no longer believes people are meant to be together forever.
Duff, 27, filed for divorce from Comrie, 34, last month. They separated more than a year earlier.
“There was still a lot of love involved. It was just a slow set-in of us not being the match that we used to be,” Duff said in an interview published in Cosmopolitan.
“I’m lucky for the person he is and I am and how we decided to handle this.”
The couple has a son, Luca, who turns three later this month.
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Duff and Comrie dated for close to three years before getting engaged in February 2010 — and then married six month later.
She said she has no regrets.
“Mike and I were very in love when we met. We both really wanted to get married,” Duff said. “I’d been working since the age of 11 or 12, so making that choice at a young age seemed right for me. Maybe it wasn’t, but we spent the majority of our time together really happy.”
Her experience with Comrie, though, has changed the way she views marriage.
“I don’t want to sound bitter because I’m definitely not, but I don’t know if people are meant to be together forever,” she said. “Things happen over a long relationship that you can’t always fight.
“A marriage of 20 years, the accomplishment of that must feel really great, but there are also huge sacrifices.”
Born in Edmonton, Comrie’s father and uncles co-founded The Brick retail chain. He played on six NHL teams during his 13-year professional career, including the Oilers and Ottawa Senators.
The issue of Cosmopolitan goes on sale March 10.
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