--- title: Halloween: Hilary Duff Is Sorry for Her Pilgrim Costume description: Hilary Duff dressed up as the sexy pilgrim to her boyfriend's Native American costume, and apologized after a backlash. canonical: https://time.com/4551318/hilary-duff-apologizes-pilgrim-costume-halloween/ author: Julia Zorthian article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-10-31T14:25:20.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:38:11.434Z og:title: Hilary Duff Is Sorry for Her Controversial Halloween Costume og:description: She dressed up as a pilgrim, while her boyfriend was a Native American og:url: https://time.com/4551318/hilary-duff-apologizes-pilgrim-costume-halloween/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd83e556cda46f046/6988ac31cd1bba43fc702e6d/hillary-duff-costume.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2560 og:image:height: 1440 og:image:alt: Casamigos Tequila Halloween Party og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Hilary Duff Is Sorry for Her Controversial Halloween Costume twitter:description: She dressed up as a pilgrim, while her boyfriend was a Native American twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd83e556cda46f046/6988ac31cd1bba43fc702e6d/hillary-duff-costume.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Hilary Duff Is Sorry for Her Controversial Halloween Costume > Sponsored content. 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Michael Kovac—Getty Images for Casamigos Tequi  by [Julia Zorthian](https://time.com/author/julia-zorthian/)  ## Julia Zorthian Oct 31, 2016 2:25 PM UTC [Hilary Duff](http://time.com/3757144/hilary-duff-younger-new-album-interview/) took part in the hallowed Halloween tradition of celebrities [apologizing for offensive outfits](http://people.com/celebrity/hilary-duff-tweets-apology-controversial-halloween-costume/) after she dressed up as the sexy pilgrim to her boyfriend’s Native American costume. Duff and her boyfriend, trainer Jason Walsh, donned the costumes for the annual Casamigos Halloween party in Los Angeles Friday evening. By Sunday, both of them had taken to social media to apologize for not being thoughtful with their outfit choices. “I am SO sorry to people I offended with my costume,” Duff wrote in tweet on Sunday. “It was not properly thought through and I am truly, from the bottom of my \[heart emoji\] sorry.” Walsh also wrote in an Instagram post, “I meant no disrespect. I only have admiration for the indigenous people of America.” > [](https://twitter.com/HilaryDuff/status/792813874923737088) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4551318/hilary-duff-apologizes-pilgrim-costume-halloween/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4551318/hilary-duff-apologizes-pilgrim-costume-halloween/"},"headline":"Hilary Duff Is Sorry for Her Controversial Halloween Costume","datePublished":"2016-10-31T14:25:20.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:38:11.434Z","description":"She dressed up as a pilgrim, while her boyfriend was a Native American","url":"https://time.com/4551318/hilary-duff-apologizes-pilgrim-costume-halloween/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrities"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd83e556cda46f046/6988ac31cd1bba43fc702e6d/hillary-duff-costume.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Julia Zorthian","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/julia-zorthian/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd83e556cda46f046/6988ac31cd1bba43fc702e6d/hillary-duff-costume.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Casamigos Tequila Halloween Party","caption":"Hilary Duff and Jason Walsh attend the Casamigos Halloween Party at a private residence in Beverly Hills, California, on Oct. 28, 2016.","creditText":"Michael Kovac—Getty Images for Casamigos Tequi","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4551318/hilary-duff-apologizes-pilgrim-costume-halloween/","name":"Hilary Duff Is Sorry for Her Controversial Halloween Costume"}}]}] ```