Chad Michael Murray thought he’d been excluded from the decades-long narrative surrounding the alleged feud between his former co-stars, Hilary Duff and Lindsay Lohan ― until recently, that is.

Appearing on the “Call Her Daddy” podcast last month, Duff set off a fan frenzy when she admitted she’d intentionally crashed the 2003 premiere of Lohan’s movie “Freaky Friday” out of spite for the fellow actor and singer, whom she described as her “childhood nemesis.”

However, Duff also suggested Murray, her co-star in 2004’s “A Cinderella Story,” might have been trying to stir the pot by inviting her to the premiere as his date.

Appearing on Virgin Radio Toronto’s “Daryn & Deepa Mornings” this week, however, Murray shot down Duff’s claim, saying he “didn’t know there was a feud” when he made the invite.

“How was I supposed to know there was a feud? I found out quickly after,” he explained. “We were filming and we had a big kissing sequence coming, and they wanted our characters to kind of get to know each other ... and so we started spending time together, it was great. She’s super sweet.”

“And by the way, I didn’t understand that there was drama or that that would even cause a thing,” he added. “Nowadays, I can understand that we’re so kind of in the know with social media that you’re like, ‘Oh, if you do that, it’s obvious.’ Back then, it wasn’t obvious that it was a thing. I just thought two people are going to go hang out, cool.”

Duff and Lohan rose to prominence in the early 2000s as the teen stars of Disney’s “Lizzie McGuire” and “The Parent Trap,” respectively. The purported beef between them began sometime around 2002, when fellow actor and singer Aaron Carter ended his romance with Duff to begin dating Lohan.

Though Carter would end up splitting from both Duff and Lohan, the two women would continue to swap barbs in the media for several years, culminating in a 2004 “Saturday Night Live” skit in which Lohan appeared alongside a caricature of Duff in “Lizzie McGuire” mode, played by comedian Rachel Dratch.

Fortunately, Duff seemed to be back on good terms with Carter prior to his 2022 death. And elsewhere in her “Call Her Daddy” chat, she confirmed that she and Lohan also patched things up after a surprise run-in at a club.

Last year, Murray reprised the role of Jake Austin, the former love interest of Lohan’s Anna Coleman, in “Freakier Friday.” He currently stars on The CW romance series “Sullivan’s Crossing.”

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