Hilary was only 16 years old and totally smitten when she began seeing Good Charlotte member Joel Madden, who was 24 at the time, and the pair dated for about three years. "It was so all encompassing," Hilary said of the romance when her Younger costar Nico Tortorella interviewed her in 2016 on The Love Bomb podcast. "It was so intense. It was my life. It was like every minute of my day. It was pretty major." As far as the scandalous age gap goes, Hilary is quick to shut down the haters. "Everyone can make their own assumptions about what I was doing," Hilary told Cosmopolitan in 2015. Translation: it's none of your business.