Songfacts®:

• In this song, Lindsay Lohan describes how she was feeling in 2005 when her parents, Michael and Dina, were going through a very public divorce after 20 tumultuous years of marriage. Lohan was really famous at the time, coming off starring roles in Freaky Friday and Mean Girls. Scrutiny of her parents' divorce layered on additional pressure and played out in the public.
• The song is framed as a statement to Lohan's dad, Michael, asking him, "Why'd you have to go?" and letting him know the pain he caused. During the divorce, she and Michael became estranged and Lindsay was wondering if they'd ever reconcile. Her dad was prone to addition, which affected Lindsay as well; starting in 2007 she had a number of incidents and arrests that didn't abate until 2013. Her relationship with her dad was on and off during this time, but it got pretty bad when he would make statements in the press about her and came under fire for not paying child support.
• Lohan directed the music video, which is very intense, with actors portraying her parents. We see her dad get abusive toward her mom, and Lindsay crying. In some scenes, Lindsay is in the bathroom singing behind a giant glass window and everyone is looking at her because her family's problems have been exposed to the media and nothing in her life can be kept private.
  
  Lohan's little sister Aliana appears in the video as well - that's her in the ballet costume.
• "Confessions Of A Broken Heart (Daughter To Father)" was the first single from Lohan's second album, A Little More Personal (Raw), which was released in 2005 and ended up being her last. Lohan had a modestly successful music career but was much more focused on acting.
• Lohan wrote the song with Kara DioGuardi and Greg Wells, the pair that also produced it. DioGuardi had this to say about it in her 2011 book A Helluva High Note:
  
  "I had spent so many months with Lindsay and watched her suffer through her parents' fighting in the press, and her own feelings of abandonment by her father. I felt very sorry for her. I had my own issues with my father (nothing like hers though) and I could relate to her pain. I started the song for her, and it became a kind of soundtrack to her situation. It's one of the only songs I feel she really connected with on her second album and that she sang from her heart. We recorded it in her rented summer house in the Hamptons, where I stayed for a few days to work with her. She rarely went to an actual studio to record vocals when I worked with her, due to her hectic schedule." >>

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• The song's title is a play on Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen, a 2004 film Lohan starred in.