Hilary Duff hits out as Aaron Carter’s book claims they had sex at 13

Hilary Duff has lashed out about the upcoming release of Aaron Carter’s memoir, in which he claims the pair had sex when they were both 13.

Hilary Duff has lashed out at publishers of Aaron Carter’s posthumous memoir after it was revealed he wrote that the pair had sex for the first time on what he believed to be her 13th birthday.

The late US pop star — who was found dead in a bathtub at his home in California on Saturday aged 34 — made the bombshell declaration in his unfinished autobiography, Aaron Carter: An Incomplete Story of an Incomplete Life, co-written over a three-year period with author Andy Symonds.

“Hilary and I lost our virginity to each other at a hotel … in LA,” Carter wrote in the tell-all, obtained by The Post prior to its publication next week. “I think it was her birthday, maybe her 13th, but I don’t remember. Her friends walked in, and we just yelled at them to get out.”

Hilary Duff and Aaron Carter dated when they were preteens. Picture: Getty Images

Ballast Books announced Wednesday via a press release that the memoir will be published on November 15.

“Aaron was working on a book about his life before his death. He never had a chance to finish it. This is what was completed,” its Amazon listing reads.

Duff, now 35, has since slammed the publisher for “recklessly” releasing an unfinished book so close to Carter’s death.

“It’s really sad that within a week of Aaron’s death, there’s a publisher that seems to be recklessly pushing a book out to capitalise on this tragedy without taking appropriate time or care to fact check the validity of his work,” the Lizzie McGuire alum told Daily MailThursday.

“To water down Aaron’s life story to what seems to be unverified click-bait for profit is disgusting.”

The Post also reached out to Carter’s reps for comment.

Duff has slammed the release of the memoir. Picture: Emma McIntyre/Getty Images

Carter previously claimed that he began dating Duff on his own 13th birthday, which was December 7, 2000. In his book, he said he had the pick of actresses at his 13th birthday party — and he struck up a relationship with Duff.

Duff is a couple of months older than Carter and would have already been 13 if they started dating on his 13th birthday.

The former couple famously shared an on-screen kiss on Duff’s Disney Channel series Lizzie McGuire. The episode aired March 23, 2001.

In an interview with CNBC’s The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch a few years later, Carter purportedly stated: “I started dating Hilary on my 13th birthday. I was dating her for like a year and a half, and then I just got a little bored, so I went and started getting to know Lindsay (Lohan), dating Lindsay. Then I didn’t want to do that anymore, so I got back with Hilary.”

Carter and Duff ended their on-and-off romance around 2003.

The Younger actress — who is now married to Matthew Koma — has previously hinted that she lost her virginity to Good Charlotte rocker Joel Madden.

Duff dated Madden from 2004 to 2006, with their romance sparking headlines due to the eight-year age difference.

“I had a 26-year-old boyfriend,” Duff told Cosmopolitan in 2015. “So everyone can make their own assumptions about what I was doing.”

Hilary Duff dated Joel Madden from the age of 17 until she was 19. Picture: Evan Agostini/Getty Images

Duff paid tribute to Carter following his untimely death at the age of 34, sharing a sweet note to Instagram that read: “For Aaron — I’m deeply sorry that life was so hard for you and that you had to struggle in front of the whole world.

“You had a charm that was absolutely effervescent.

“Boy, did my teenage self love you deeply.”

In Carter’s memoir — which was a rough draft at the time of his untimely death, with many unanswered questions — he recalled some of his other relationships, saying actress Amanda Bynes was his first girlfriend.

He also claimed that his Dancing with the Stars partner, Karina Smirnoff, left her fiance for him when they competed on Season 9.

Carter had a troubled life in the spotlight. Picture: Presley Ann/Getty Images for WE tv

“I let her know she was too much for me, and she agreed, and we started resenting each other in the midst of the competition, and we started having to rehearse with different people because our relationship was so bad,” Carter wrote.

The Post reached out to reps for Bynes and Smirnoff for comment. Carter made the same claim last year about Smirnoff on a podcast. In an Instagram post following his death, Smirnoff wrote, “RIP @aaroncarter So young! It’s heartbreaking! you always made people smile. Rest In Peace friend! You will be missed.”

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