Hilary Duff has revealed she’s still good friends with ex-boyfriend Joel Madden.

She told CosmoGIRL recently: “Joel was my boyfriend for two years and I loved him - he was a very important part of my life.”

“All that stuff about the age difference between us being the reason we broke up is just not true; I never felt the age difference. Breaking up was just something that I felt needed to happen between us.”

“People thought we were an unlikely couple, but we really weren’t that different. After two months, I didn’t even see his tattoos anymore, because that’s not who he is.”

“He used to say, ‘I don’t think there are too many people out there who really get you, but I do.’ And he did. I could be stupid, silly, funny, or crazy, and he got it. He gave me a sense of confidence and independence I didn’t have before.”

“We e-mail all the time now and are at a really good place.”

Joel, the frontman of Good Charlotte, is now dating Nicole Richie.