Hilary Duff Struggles Face to Face  7/27/05

American singer Hilary Duff suffers from inverse stage fright - she performs to huge audiences without a care, but struggles to feel comfortable in intimate musical settings.

The So Yesterday star insists she is a very shy person despite her extrovert stage persona, but she finds anonymous crowds easy to deal with because she can't focus on one single person.

She says, "It's easier to play a big show than something more intimate.

There's something more comforting about seeing a whole sea of people with glow sticks going crazy than being able to identify people I know out of a crowd of 200."