The mysterious case of Hilary Duff and the insufferable neighbor: An Instagram story

Many of us know Hilary Duff as the Disney Channel actress, turned singer, turned chic star of the fun TV Land comedy, Younger. But now she's taken on the new role of furious neighbor.

Over the years Duff has always remained relatively calm, cool, and collected — despite a brief feud with Lindsay Lohan — but now she has an insufferable New York City neighbor and she's annoyed AF.

On Wednesday, Duff posted a very relatable but out-of-character rant on her Instagram story, in which she called out her rude neighbor to 9.2 million followers BY NAME.

As a fan's video of the story captured, Duff began by saying, "Calling all New Yorkers with asshole neighbors, I'm really open to any advice you have. My neighbor smokes cigarettes and weed all night long and my apartment reeks."

"Seriously, what do I do?" Duff questioned, posting the first and last name of her neighbor, Dieter Addison, all over the video.

A second video, which included Addison's name once again, wasn't as nice.

"We know your parents pay your rent, we know you've never worked a day in your life, it must be nice," Duff said. "Have some respect for your neighbors who work hard to live in that building. Don't be a dick, dude. And put your trash down the chute"

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In case Addison didn't see Duff publicly calling him out for being the worst, she went on to find his personal Instagram account, screenshot it, and post it for all her followers to see.

Then, in a very mature move, the 30-year-old actress and mother of one screenshotted Addison's profile photo and drew cat ears and whiskers on his face — not one, not two, but THREE different times. She even @'d him and went so far as to film herself using the Instagram cat filter to say "meow."

After all this effort, Duff still wasn't done dragging the man.

"And another thing ... stop breaking all your furniture when you fight with your girlfriend or boyfriend... it scares me and my kid... therapy is cheaper," Duff wrote in another post. Finally, to close the 52 second story, she suggested the man get a vape to chill the heck out.

W... O... W.

Hilary, we totally get the whole bad neighbor pain and the need to occasionally rant via social media, but publicly calling someone out like that and exposing a full name and account to millions of people is probably not the best idea.

In fact, a spokesperson from Instagram told Mashable the story violated Community Guidelines and some of the content was removed before it was set to expire after 24 hours.

Section six of Instagram's Terms of Use addresses on-platform bullying and sharing of personal information, which Duff seams to have violated in her story.

6. "You must not defame, stalk, bully, abuse, harass, threaten, impersonate or intimidate people or entities and you must not post private or confidential information via the Service, including, without limitation, your or any other person's credit card information, social security or alternate national identity numbers, non-public phone numbers or non-public email addresses."

As The Blast also noted, this isn't the first time Duff and her neighbor have had problems, so the Instagram rant could very well serve as additional fodder for legal action taken against her and her boyfriend, singer Matthew Koma, in the future.

Duff's neighbor has reportedly already accused Koma of punching him in a dispute over smoking habits, according to Page Six.

A nice reminder to all to be mindful of what you post online and the repercussions your social media shade could have.

UPDATE: May 18, 2018, 12:31 p.m. EDT Updated to include statement from Instagram.

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