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In this 2007 interview Oprah interviews 15 year old Miley Cyrus about her new found stardom since starring in Hannah Montana. Oprah asks her about what she likes to wear "I like to look kind of like what girls would want to look up to, and their moms and dads will say". At this point in Mileys career she wants to be a good influence on young girls. She had the all-American girl persona. Someone that young girls would look up to.

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Hannah Montana star Miley Cyrus, daughter of country singer Billy Ray Cyrus, will answer her fans' questions.

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Jesus of Cool: Why Hannah Montana is So AWESOME!!!

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Jesus of Cool: Why Hannah Montana is So AWESOME!!!

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Min Read interviews two seven year old girls about their love for Hannah Montana. They discuss their knowledge on Miley's personal life. This article shows how influential she was. Seven is very young for girls to be knowing about her dating history which exemplifies how her star persona was made for young girls and how important it was that she was a good influence and behaved accordingly.

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Jesus of Cool: Why Hannah Montana is So AWESOME!!! - Popdose

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Almost exactly a year ago on this site, my esteemed Popdose colleague Dw. Dunphy closed a column by asking, “What has modernity offered you? Hannah…

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Miley Cyrus: America's Most Famous Girl Grows Up

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Miley Cyrus: America's Most Famous Girl Grows Up

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In this article Miley discusses her life growing up in the spotlight as a teenage girl. She talks about the struggles and the stress of it all. When asked about if she fears she will end up like Brittany Spears or Lindsay Lohan she replies: "The last thing I ever want to do is disappoint my parents". This further shows her star persona in the early 2000s. She was perceived as a 'normal' teenage girl who loved her family.

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The night before the Oscars, I meet Miley Cyrus at a sushi restaurant in L.A. Like any other fashion-obsessed teenager, she's bubbling on excitedly about the dress she's planning to wear the next evening. Her "happy-to-be-invited-to-the-party" attitude is a cute contradiction, given all she's accomplished so far: Her Disney Channel sitcom, Hannah Montana, debuted as the highest-rated show in the network's history; one of the series' soundtracks went double-platinum; tickets for her "Best of Both Worlds" concert tour grossed $55.2 million; and now she's starring in Hannah Montana: The Movie. The G-rated feature promises to be another huge boost for the Hannah Montana franchise, which is currently projected to be worth more than-ready for this?-$1 billion.

All that's fine and good, but the 16-year-old is itching to move on to the next phase of her life. She's maturing professionally (this is her first women's magazine cover) and personally: Cyrus is dating a 20-year-old model, Justin Gaston. Along the way, she has had to navigate controversy for the first time. She did a shoot for Vanity Fair in which she posed wearing pretty much just a sheet. More seriously, a snapshot surfaced several months ago of Cyrus goofing around with friends and pulling her eyes into slits. The photo sparked accusations of insensitivity to Asians.

Although Cyrus is under far more scrutiny than the average teen, she seems unfazed by her fishbowl existence, talking candidly about the woman she hopes to be and every other topic thrown her way. Read on to catch this mini-mogul on the cusp of change.

GLAMOUR: OK, so I'm sitting here, eating sushi with you, and I have to say, you seem like a totally normal young woman! How is this possible?

MILEY CYRUS: [ Laughs.] I think at some point during everyone's life, you finally figure yourself out. I haven't even done that yet. I'm still learning who I am.

GLAMOUR: Do you think these past few years of intense fame have given you a different perspective?

MILEY CYRUS: I was talking with my mom one day, and I said that I would not change the way I grew up for anything. But, yes, I am really overwhelmed. I went to the Oscars for the first time when I was 13. Then I had my first real relationship; it was hard-core and lasted two years [with Nick Jonas of The Jonas Brothers]. That's a life-changing experience most people don't have until they're 19 or 20. So my life has been on high speed. [My career] is a huge responsibility.

GLAMOUR: So what are some lessons you've learned from your mistakes?

MILEY CYRUS: I've learned how to respect myself and how to say no. I've learned who I can really trust. I have 200 or 300 friends, but I probably trust four. When I read something in the tabloids and it's from an "insider," I want to know who thinks they're on the "inside." Because I can count on one hand the people who really know me. There's my best friend, Mandy; I can tell her anything without being judged. There's Jason Earles, who's on my show-he's like a big brother to me. There's my big sister, Brandi. And the best thing that's happened to me in a long, long time has been meeting Justin [Gaston], because he's the most respectful and selfless person I've ever known.

GLAMOUR: Do you worry that your boyfriend is so much older?

MILEY CYRUS: I don't feel like I'm doing anything wrong, and I'm ready for people to accept it. My fans already accept it-they just want me to be happy. And I haven't been that happy in a few years...working so hard, moving to L.A. from Nashville, going through a bad breakup [with Nick Jonas]. I'm finally happy again, and I think that is reflected in my music and my work. So honestly, I don't feel like there's anything to hide. And I love him so much I don't really care.

GLAMOUR: How did you meet?

MILEY CYRUS: My dad introduced us on the Hannah Montana set. I looked so bad that day. I was wearing sweats and glasses and we talked. Then he showed up the next day and said, "I can't stop thinking about you. Can I take you to a movie?" When he took me home, I said, "I don't want to get close to you, because I don't know where this is going to go." And he said, "Well, you can't live like that." So we took a three-mile walk, and talked and talked. And I felt 10 pounds lifting from my shoulders. Now he's my best friend.

GLAMOUR: Your dad is such a huge part of your life. You guys seem to have a really good relationship.

MILEY CYRUS: This may sound weird coming from a teenager, but I like when my dad is a little frustrated with me or upset with me, because I really feel like that's not how most dads are in this business. Most parents with kids in the business say, go free, do what you want. My parents did not want me to go all Hollywood.

GLAMOUR: It seems so hard to avoid that.

MILEY CYRUS: It is! At one of the very first awards shows I ever did, there was a bottle of vodka in my gift bag. No one cared that they were giving this to a 12-year-old.

GLAMOUR: You're kidding me!

MILEY CYRUS: I think that's what's messed up so many people. I feel like the rules are the rules, you know? If you're not 21, you don't get into a bar. You don't go to clubs. In this business you see so many people who are told yes all the time, and if someone says no, they get all upset. They look to their publicist, manager or agent for approval, rather than their parents.

GLAMOUR: Can you ever imagine your life playing out like Britney Spears' or Lindsay Lohan's? They started out as squeaky-clean Disney stars too.

MILEY CYRUS: The last thing I ever want to do is disappoint my parents. My mom's dad died when she was 18, and if something ever happened to one of my parents, I'd want them to go knowing I made them proud. I think it's selfish to go out partying all the time, especially if you have little ones [in your family]. I have a nine-year-old sister, and I don't want her to go to school and have people make fun of her for it.

GLAMOUR: This year there were pictures that came out that made you look racist. What do you say to people who were offended by that?

MILEY CYRUS: I regret what it became. I was embarrassed and I apologized. And I am sorry. I am going to be more careful in the future, but I know this won't be the last mistake I make. The minute I stop making mistakes is the minute I stop learning.

GLAMOUR: Obviously you've earned a huge salary from all the work you do. How do you deal with having so much of your own money?

MILEY CYRUS: In this industry there are so many things that can take over your life: money, alcohol, drugs-even fashion. People hand you things, and you start to believe life is easy. And it's not like that-you're not supposed to be the person you play in the movies. I'm doing fine, and I'll be able to live comfortably for a while. But I like keeping my mind as far away from money and the material aspects of my job as possible.

GLAMOUR: So you wouldn't walk into a store and drop $1,000 on a handbag?

MILEY CYRUS: I feel like it looks bad, always having a different $1,000 bag. I do have limits on my money. I like calling my mom to ask, "Can I have that?" Because I know I can be spending my money more wisely.

GLAMOUR: You've used your fame as a platform for cancer fund-raising. What drew you to that particular cause?

MILEY CYRUS: My granddad died of lung and prostate cancer, and he was my best friend. I've also lost friends, not just to cancer. My best friend died of cystic fibrosis. It just kills me to see people lose someone they love, so I want to do as much as I can: give money to doctors and hospitals; get nurses in there that care; put a smile on a little kid's face. The things we've done through City of Hope [a cancer research, education and treatment center] have been amazing: The Jonas Brothers and I have raised nearly $2.5 million through concerts.

GLAMOUR: Who are some of your role models in Hollywood?

MILEY CYRUS: This is actually funny. I'm a huge Jennifer Aniston fan and a huge Angelina Jolie fan. Jennifer Aniston can put on a plain black dress, with plain makeup and hair, and look so stunning. Angelina always looks so comfortable in her own skin: At a premiere she was wearing a pantsuit-what woman throws that on and looks smoking hot? She's also changed every couple of years, going from wild child to being a mom and having a normal life. And Jennifer Aniston bounced back after her divorce. She could have gone crazy with so many different guys, but she didn't. If anything like that ever happens to me, I'm like, Pull a Jennifer, Miley! She is so classy.

GLAMOUR: How do you feel about the pin-thin-body trend in young Hollywood?

MILEY CYRUS: I think it's lame, because it will eat at you forever. I've been at photo shoots where I've tried something on and said, "Oh my gosh, why don't these fit?" But I'll never be a six-foot-tall, 95-pound model; I'm meant to have a little more meat on my bones. One thing that bugs me is people who say, "Miley really needs to lose some weight," or, "She got her boobs done." I did start out really skinny, but you're not going to have boobs when you're 12 years old. I'm like, what are you talking about-let me grow!

GLAMOUR: So do you ever feel like you've missed out on having a childhood, or worry you're growing up too fast?

MILEY CYRUS: At times I feel I'm very mature for my age, but other times I feel very immature. I still like to sleep with my parents sometimes. I'll go into their bedroom and snuggle with my mom, because I've been working all day and haven't seen her. Or my dad will give me a piggyback ride. I'm not around other people my age that much, so I don't know how 16-year-olds are supposed to act! I just do what feels right.

GLAMOUR: Where do you see yourself 10 years from now?

MILEY CYRUS: Hopefully I'll be settled: making movies, living in a house, maybe even married. I think my mom did everything pretty close to perfect, and I want to be the cool mom that the kids run home to. For now I'm still learning who I am. One minute I have black hair, the next it's red. One day I'm wearing Converse sneakers, and the next I'm in the hippie look. I definitely feel like I know myself more than I ever have, but I don't feel rushed to figure myself out. I have all the time in the world to do that.

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Miley Cyrus: America's Most Famous Girl Grows Up

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She's a multiplatinum hit machine. Her franchise is worth nearly a billion dollars. And, oh yeah, she just got her learner's permit. You are now entering the crazy, chaotic and completely fun world of Miley Cyrus--fasten your seat belt and hang on as the teen superstar opens up about life, regrets and becoming a woman.

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This article talks about the impact that the virtual Hannah Montana concert has had on young girls. The cinema tickets were sold out with girls holding their glowsticks and wearing matching wigs and singing the songs. This exemplifies just how famous she was when she was only 15. Girls loved her and wanted to be just like her, and parents approved because she was a good influence.

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Even if you go around with one or several fingers stuffed into each ear, you will not be able to exclude the words “Hannah Montana” from your field of…

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This website discusses all of the songs in the Hannah Montana movie with links to each song, they include links to each individual songs which give some information on the song and they lyrics. Showing the in depth fandom that Hannah Montana has.

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Hannah Montana: The Movie is the soundtrack to the film of the same name, released on March 24, 2009 on Walt Disney Records. On the soundtrack, songs are performed by Miley Cyrus, both as Cyrus and Hannah Montana, Billy Ray Cyrus, Rascal Flatts, and Taylor Swift. The song’s “Butterfly Fly Away”, which is performed by Miley and Billy Ray Cyrus, and “Back to Tennessee”, also from Billy Ray Cyrus, appear on his new album, Back to Tennessee. The first single released was Miley Cyrus’ (credited…

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Miley's first acting role was on her fathers, Billy Ray Cyrus, TV show, Doc. She appeared in two episodes of the show, one being the pilot.

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10 year old Miley Cyrus debuts in director Tim Burtons film Big Fish. She has a minor role playing Ruthie but this is seen as the start of her acting career as she was working with such big names e.g. Ewan McGregor and Helena Bonham Carter.

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Miley's role as Hannah Montana projected her into stardom. This role got her name out there and made her known.

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The title of this article calling Miley 'Americas Sweetheart' shows how this shift in style completely affected her star persona. The fact that these publications are still calling her 'Americans Sweetheart' shows how new of a shift this was, she was still associated with Hannah Montana.

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MTV’s ‘Miley Cyrus: The Movement’ Proves America’s Sweetheart Knows What She’s Doing

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Perhaps you’ve already seen the Miley Cyrus film, the one back in 2009 that isn’t a documentary. In Hannah Montana: The Movie, a budding, underage pop star (Han

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'Hannah Montana: The Movie', Rolling Stone, 2009

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'Hannah Montana: The Movie', Rolling Stone, 2009

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"Eight-year-old girls of all sexes and ages are now allowed to cry their eyes out".

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Spoiler: Smiley Miley and Hannah Montana are the same person and this movie says so! Eight-year-old girls of all sexes and ages are now allowed to cry their eyes out. All others who find themselves at the excruciating endurance test that is Hannah Montana: The Movie have only themselves to blame. Unless, in imitation of […]

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'Hannah Montana The Movie', Behind The Lens, 2009

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'Hannah Montana The Movie', Behind The Lens, 2009

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"I like Hannah Montana.  I watch the tv series.  It’s fun.  It’s enjoyable and it helps me to keep being a kid at heart.  But, HANNAH MONTANA THE MOVIE, I simply adore. This is not a kid’s movie or a teen/tween movie.  This is a family movie with something every generation, every member of a family can relate to in some capacity. It strikes a chord of home and hearth that just touches the heart…complete with an annoying brother, supportive friend, loving father and extended family and an irrepressible teen who just happens to have an alter ego as a rock superstar"

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Behind the Lens is your home for in-depth movie reviews, filmmaker & celebrity interviews, and more, all by industry professional and film critic debbie lynn elias…

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'Miley Cyrus: 'This is first, and last Hannah Montana movie'', RecordOnline, 2009

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'Miley Cyrus: 'This is first, and last Hannah Montana movie'', RecordOnline, 2009

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"Will that affect her status as a role model for young girls? Not any more than her feelings on the glamorous life she's chosen: Asked what kids should do if they're torn between pursuing an acting dream or going to college, Cyrus responds with her usual unfiltered candor.

"I say 'do it,'" she said, laughing as if she knew what kind of trouble she was causing for herself. "Be a freak. Go to Hollywood.""

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MIley Cyrus: ‘This is first, and last Hannah Montana movie’

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So says the 16-year-old tween phenom, whose alter ego brings her secret double life as a pop star to theaters April 10 with “Hannah Montana: The Movie.”

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This video interviews and shows the audience who were attending the Hannah Montana show. It is clear the audience are young girls who look up to Miley and Hannah.

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Hannah Montana Live on London| Fans Moments

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"Hannah Montana Fans Rave About Concert"

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"Hannah Montana Fans Rave About Concert"

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This 10 minute long YouTube video captures the essence of Hannah's fan base and the overall excitement of the release of the movie.

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Miley Cyrus - Hannah Montana - 3.05.09 The Movie Premiere Special Disney UK

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Over the five years that Hannah Montana ran for, Miley Cyrus's face was plastered on almost every item you could think of to sell. Miley's face was the reason girls would buy a regular old cup, or a plate. Miley was the product.

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The most noticeable part of Mileys ever changing star persona is how her music reflects what part of her life she is in. Her music reflects every single persona and stage of life she has gone through.

"It's almost as if, with each new album, we get to meet a whole new Miley." - Alex Ungerman, 2017

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The first music to be released by Miley was through Hannah Montana.

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The Best of Both Worlds - From "Hannah Montana"/Soundtrack Version

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The Best of Both Worlds - From "Hannah Montana"/Soundtrack Version

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This was one of Mileys first songs to be released out of the Hannah Montana persona. It was a viral hit and it still showed the Miley that her fans recognised.

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Released in 2010, this album was the beginning of her new persona. Miley didn't want to be seen as Americas sweetheart, she didn't want to be responsible for young girls as she 18 now.

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In 2013 Miley released wrecking ball as her second single from her new album Bangerz. This was a major change in persona. New look, new music, new morals and values.

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Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz released in 2015. The album after Bangerz. It was not as big of a hit as the previous album but it was artsy and unique.

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Malibu was released in 2017 with the album Younger Now. Shortly after the announcement of her and Liam's engagement. A completely different vibe from the previous two albums. This was a new persona for Miley.

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Miley and Liam Hemsworth have a long timeline of dating on and off for over a decade. He is an large influence on her music throughout the years which is why I think he is important to include.

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Miley and Liam meet on the movie set of The Last Song.

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Mileys most recent album released this year called Something Beautiful. It is considered to be a progressive pop album, combining classic aspects of pop with more experimental aspects of pop.

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Endless Summer released in 2023. The album includes aspects of pop, rock and country. A combination of her past albums. It feels like she has merged all her previous personas together and created something very authentic. The song Flowers is famously known to be about Liam and their separation.

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Miley Cyrus says Liam Hemsworth inspired new album, Can't Be Tamed.

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Miley Cyrus says Liam Hemsworth inspired new album, Can't Be Tamed.

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Miley Cyrus says Liam Hemsworth inspired new album

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Miley Cyrus has admitted her hunky Aussie boyfriend Liam Hemsworth is the inspiration for her new album Can…

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Miley and Liam break up, then get back together, then get engaged at only 22 and 19.

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Miley Cyrus Engaged to Liam Hemsworth; Hunger Games Star Proposed May 31

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The Hunger Games star popped the question May 31 in Los Angeles

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MTV VMA 2013 : Miley Cirus - We Can't Stop / Blurred Lines / Give It 2 U

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Liam and Miley call of their engagement. According to sources she couldn't trust him after he cheated and wanted to party instead of settle down. There are rumours that their breakup was because of the infamous VMA performance with Robin Thicke.

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EXCLUSIVE: The real reason Miley and Liam split…and it has nothing to do with her twerking at VMAs!

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They had one of the most tumultuous relationships in Hollywood, with Liam Hemsworth and Miley Cyrus breakin…

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Miley breaks down while preforming Wrecking Ball - allegedly about Liam

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Miley breaks down while preforming Wrecking Ball - allegedly about Liam

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Miley Cyrus - Wrecking Ball Live iHeartRadio Music Festival HD

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They are back together, this time with an engagement ring.

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In 2018 Liam and Miley are officially married.

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Surveying the singed wreckage of her Malibu home, Miley Cyrus was able to spot the silver lining. A tangible one. Sitting still in tact, amid the pile of rubble that was left after the California wildfires tore through the oceanside spread and much of the surrounding acreage, were four massive stone letters spelling out L-O-V-E.

"That's literally and physically all that's left so I felt that was really poetic," she shared during a December appearance on On Air With Ryan Seacrest to promote "Nothing Breaks Like a Heart", her latest Mark Ronson collaboration. "You can always rebuild a physical structure, but that love that can't be destroyed is always there and always stayed strong so that gave me a lot of light during a dark time."

As it turned out, The Beatles knew what they were talking about back in 1967. Buoyed by that enduring, unbreakable love, she and fiancé Liam Hemsworth forged forward with their plans for holiday vows. So what that they had to uproot everything from their dream location-the four-bedroom house on a Malibu cliff where they fell in love with each other for a second time? Cyrus' Franklin, Tenn. home would work just fine.

And so on Dec. 23, following a decade of rollercoaster romancing, an engagement, a two-year-long break and numerous protestations that they didn't need a ceremony and a legal certificate to feel bound for life, the 26-year-old free-spirited pop star and the Australian actor, 28, were pronounced husband and wife in front of their equally famous family, the singer's little sister Noah Cyrus and The Hunger Games star's brothers Chris Hemsworth and Luke Hemsworth spotted in the Instagram photos the couple shared. Later, they celebrated with cake, a shotski and plenty of dancing, Cyrus breaking it down to Bruno Mars' and Ronson's "Uptown Funk" in her ivory silk satin draped Vivienne Westwood sheath.

The whole affair was "perfect," a source told People. "They always wanted a small, private celebration with family and close friends and that's what they got. Miley seems ecstatic."

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But by 2015, she had found her way back to Hemsworth, the pair managing to keep their recoupling under wraps as they figured out if it was going to stick for good this time. Confident in what they had, the duo began dropping hints, that, yeah, this was happening again. "You fall in love with who you fall in love with; you can never choose. I guess some people just come with a little more baggage," Hemsworth told Men's Fitness just a few months before they were spotted together. "I mean, look-we were together five years, so I don't think those feelings will ever change. And that's good because that proves to me that it was real. It wasn't just a fling."

What it was, it became clear, was a lifelong commitment that just needed a bit of breathing room to really stick.

"Of course it was hard, man. But at the time we were going in different directions and it's just what needed to happen," Hemsworth explained to GQ of their breakup in 2016. "We were both super young and it was a good decision at the time-we both needed that."

Cyrus continued to put up the facade that marriage was far from the forefront, explaining to Andy Cohen on SiriusXM channel Radio Andy, that they rarely discuss such things, choosing to focus on her new music and his February rom com Isn't It Romantic. "I'm very kind of just like in this space of like working, so not too much and he's got a new movie coming out, so we've got a lot going on." (Spilling on the steamy way they stay connected while separated also served as a good diversion.) But she had already quietly begun preparations to exchange vows with Hemsworth while their families were with them in California over the holidays.

"A lavish ceremony wasn't important to Miley or Liam," a confidante tells E! News, "all that mattered was that their families could be there." So that they had to swap locations was no big deal.

Something had shifted for the singer. Whether it was that she finally felt the importance and weight of becoming legally enmeshed with her person, was looking ahead to that day when they would potentially start a family together or just caught up in the spirit of 2018 that saw so many couples eager to begin their forever, her romance with Hemsworth just felt different.

"In the past, any time Miley would talk about getting married to Liam, she would always have a huge smile," a source told People. "She has been wanting to get married to Liam for years."

And though the wildfire, which completely wiped away a large chunk of their personal belongings could have left them broken, it made their re-cemented romance that much sturdier.

For one, Cyrus couldn't stop marveling over the image of her real-life super hero racing around their compound to save their seven dogs, two pigs and two miniature horses. "Liam, I've never loved him more for this," she shared on SiriusXM's Howard Stern Show Dec. 12. "He was so incredible, he got all the animals out in his truck. He put two pigs in crates, which I tell you is so hard. He got a lot of action for saving the animals."

And there is something about losing so much that helps crystalize what's truly crucial. "The trauma of losing their belongings has brought Miley and Liam closer together," a source told E! News. As Cyrus tweeted in the days following the destruction, "I am one of the lucky ones. My animals and LOVE OF MY LIFE made it out safely & that's all that matters right now. My house no longer stands but the memories shared with family & friends stand strong. I am grateful for all I have left."

That includes a romance that was solid enough to be burnt to the ground before rising triumphantly from the ashes. "Both families are thrilled Miley and Liam have finally made it official," the confidante says. "Liam is elated that he and Miley can officially begin the next chapter of their lives as husband and wife."

For Cyrus, she was unintentionally following the marriage advice she'd later get from parents Billy Ray Cyrus and Tish Cyrus, who have gone through bouts of separation themselves. "One thing I've learned about marriage from my parents: Nothing and no one stays the same," she told Cosmopolitan in 2017. "Grow, evolve, change with each other and celebrate your love's journey!"

And sometimes that means taking a bit of a pause. "I needed to change so much. And changing with someone else not changing like that is too hard," she said of the time apart in a interview that same year. "Suddenly you're like, 'I don't recognize you anymore.' We had to re-fall for each other."

They did so again in Malibu, the city even receiving an homage on her 2017 disc, Younger Now with Cyrus singing about her brand new start being a dream come true.

"They were secretly dating again for months before anyone found out," an insider explained to People. "Liam is very protective of Miley and she feels safest with him. Malibu was their sanctuary and is very special to them."

So of course the upscale town seemed like the perfect place for them to start the next stage of their journey.

As recently as last year, the "Can't Be Tamed" singer was perfectly content with her status quo. Sure, she was once again wearing the 3.5-carat, vintage-style cushion-cut engagement ring Hemsworth had first slid on her finger back in 2012, but that didn't necessarily mean she was going to do something as conventional as actually get married.

"I'm just riding this out," Cyrus she told The Sun on Sunday last September. "I don't envision marriage. I'm 24. I hope I get to live a little bit more. I have too much living to do."

Three years after reconciling, they were very much of the if it ain't broke, no need to fix it mentality. "They are both very content with how their relationship is at this stage," an insider explained to E! News. "They have definitely discussed marriage and kids, and it is definitely in the future but there aren't any definite plans yet."

For now it was enough to simply marvel at how far they'd come, their once divergent paths merging once more. "Three years ago, if you'd asked me if I'd be here, this happy with this man," she told the British paper. "I'd have been stunned."

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Because if you looked back, it was pretty remarkable. From the time they first met on the 2009 set of their Nicholas Sparks romance The Last Song, Cyrus made it clear this wasn't to be like her previous puppy love relationships with Nick Jonas and Justin Gaston.

"He was just the most genuinely precious, sweet person," she gushed to Seventeen at the time. "And the second audition comes around and the chemistry was instant. From the time he walked in that door and we saw each other again, we lit up and we were excited to get [to] work and learn together."

And grow together, it turns out, because by June 2012, after a few false starts, the duo were celebrating their engagement. At just 19, despite nearly a decade of working in a notoriously tough industry and millions in her savings, Cyrus knew she'd have to defend her right to make such an adult decision. But the way she saw it was simple.

"We've been together a really long time and I just know that this is what I want, you know, for my life," she told Marie Claire. "So a lot of people I think, you know, say I can't believe they're getting married, it's so young. But it's like life is too short to not spend every moment making the person that makes you the happiest happy in return."

Just a year later, though, and the artist was literally singing a different tune. Hitting another rocky patch with Hemsworth, she had slipped off her engagement bauble, unfollowed the actor on social media and come to the realization that your teen years weren't, perhaps, the best time to make a lifelong commitment.

"I don't think I realized what 19 truly is, and I got engaged at 19, and I definitely wouldn't change being engaged. It was so fun wearing a fat rock for a few years," she said on Barbara Walters Presents: The 10 Most Fascinating People of 2013. "But now, I just feel like I can actually be happy."

Thus ushered in the Bangerz era with the former Disney star trying her darndest to shock her fans (and their indignant parents) with twerking and nudity and whatever it was she did with Robin Thicke and that foam finger on the MTV VMAs stage.

"People have made me seem like a character. So now I'm just enjoying playing a character of myself. People's mouths drop when I dance, but my friends are like, 'You dance like that in the kitchen!' I'm always pretty much joking," she explained in an interview with at the time.

The new Miley also felt free to experiment in her personal relationships. "This is the best time of my life. I'm not going to look back on it and be like, 'I wish I hadn't been dwelling over a breakup,' you know?" she told Cosmopolitan in 2013. "Because that's not what God wants my life to be about right now."

That meant while Hemsworth was courting actress Eiza González, 28, she was dating Patrick Schwarzenegger, forming some sort of romantic relationship with model Stella Maxwell and revealing she was pansexual. You know, just being Miley.

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Why Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth Finally Decided to Become Husband and Wife

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After 10 years and numerous protestations that they were happy to maintain the status quo, the pop star was thrilled to wed her actor love in a private at-home ceremony.

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Liam Hemsworth Has Officially Filed For Divorce From Miley Cyrus

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Released in 2019 this song has many references her and Liam's separation.

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The Bangerz era was between 2013-2014. In this era she released songs such as Wrecking Ball and We Can't Stop. This was the biggest change in her celebrity persona. Although she already had some scandals while trying to break out of the 'Americas Sweetheart' role this era is her most controversial.

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In 2012 Miley posted a picture of her new haircut. She got a lot of hate online for it with people saying she looked like a boy or like Draco Malfoy. She had actually donated her hair to charity. This was the beginning of the Bnagerz era. The first real change in her persona.

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Why all this fuss about Miley Cyrus cutting her hair? | Rowena Ball

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Rowena Ball for Vagenda: The former Disney star’s new pixie crop is not a rejection of femininity, it’s not a political statement. It’s just a haircut

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'Miley Cyrus haircut shocker: Short hair isn’t a cry for help' Salon, 2012

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'Miley Cyrus haircut shocker: Short hair isn’t a cry for help' Salon, 2012

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"The 19-year-old artist formerly known as squeaky-clean Disney star Hannah Montana has, in recent years, shown a penchant for shaking up good-girl expectations. There was the lap dance. The partying with a bong. The penis cake. The Bob Marley cake. And now, in her latest obviously insane stunt, she’s … cut her hair."

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Miley Cyrus haircut shocker: Short hair isn’t a cry for help - Salon.com

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The teenage singer cuts her hair and people think she’s “gone Britney.” The backlash is what’s really crazy

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At 18 years old Miley was filmed smoking from a bong. At this point it was 2010 and Hannah Montana was still airing but it would have finished being filmed. Fans would still be seeing her as a role model since Hannah Montana was not officially over. It is clear here that she is already trying to be released from the strains of being 'Americas Sweetheart'.

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Miley Cyrus celebrated her 18th birthday with a giant bong hit and a case of the giggles ... and she did it all in front of a camera.

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At the wrap party for The Last Song undercover footage was shown of Miley giving 44 year old director Adam Shankman a lap dance.

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Miley Cyrus Lap dancing              (FULL VIDEO)

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'What’s shocking about Miley Cyrus’ lap dance video', Salon, 2009

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'What’s shocking about Miley Cyrus’ lap dance video', Salon, 2009

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"I’m hardly shocked by her behaviour in the video, especially in comparison to her latest music video, "Can't Be Tamed" which shows her dancing sexily with several adult dancers. (Let’s not forget her pole-dancing debut last year, either.) She is clearly dying to break out of the Disney mould."

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What’s shocking about Miley Cyrus’ lap dance video - Salon.com

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It isn’t the star’s booty-shaking. It’s the behavior of the 44-year-old man on the receiving end

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Cultural Appropriation - 'What Miley Cyrus Did Was Disgusting -- But Not For the Reasons You Think', Huffpost, 2013

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Cultural Appropriation - 'What Miley Cyrus Did Was Disgusting -- But Not For the Reasons You Think', Huffpost, 2013

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After Mileys VMA performance she received hate not only for twerking on stage but also for cultural appropriation. "She, a wealthy white woman, is taking elements from black culture in order to achieve a specific image. Her status as a member of a traditionally oppressive race and class means that she is able to pick and choose what parts of black culture she wants to embrace without having to deal with the racism and racialization that black women live with every day. In short, she can imagine that she is being "ghetto" without having any concept of what living in a ghetto would really mean".

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What Miley Cyrus Did Was Disgusting -- But Not For the Reasons You Think

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I saw many prominent white feminists use their sizeable platforms to defend Miley’s right to rub her ass on Robin Thicke while wearing flesh-coloured bra and panties. I watched as those same people remained embarrassingly silent about Miley’s behaviour towards black women and black culture.

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Miley states in an interview "[They're] thinking about it more than I thought about it when I did it. Like, I didn't even think about it cos [it was] just me [being me]."

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Miley Cyrus has revealed she hoped "to make history" by wriggling, lolling and twerking with teddy bears at last week's MTV Video Music awards. Critics have accused her of cultural appropriation - or simply making a fool of herself - but the singer claimed people are "overthinking" a sequence into which she put little thought.

"What's amazing is... people are still talking about it," Cyrus said in an interview with MTV News. "[They're] thinking about it more than I thought about it when I did it. Like, I didn't even think about it cos [it was] just me [being me]."

Cyrus explained that her antics - which included writhing in nude-coloured underpants, masturbating using a giant foam finger, simulating anilingus on an unwitting dancer and waggling her tongue like a dehydrated pug - were driven by a desire to be remembered forever.

"I don't pay attention to the negative because I've seen this play out so many times," she said. "Madonna's done it. Britney's done it. Every VMA performance, that's what you're looking for; you're wanting to make history."

Her on-stage collaborator, Blurred Lines crooner Robin Thicke, apparently agreed. "Me and Robin, the whole time said: 'You know we're about to make history right now'," Cyrus said.

Justin Timberlake is among those who have called on the public to maintain perspective in the face of the attempt by Cyrus and Thicke to place themselves as the defining figures of the early 21st century.

"It's the VMAs," he said. "It's not like she did it at the Grammys."

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Miley Cyrus says VMAs twerking was an attempt to 'make history'

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Miley Cyrus has revealed she hoped "to make history" by wriggling, lolling and twerking with teddy bears at last week's MTV Video Music awards. Critics have accused her of cultural appropriation - or simply making a fool of herself - but the singer claimed people are "overthinking" a sequence into which she put little thought.

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In 2013 Miley sparks up a joint in Amsterdam on stage.

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Miley Cyrus -- Lights Up Joint ON-STAGE During Euro MTV Awards

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Miley Cyrus attempted to top her infamous VMA performance during the European version of the show Sunday night ... by puffing a fat joint on live TV.

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MTV EMA: Miley Cyrus ‘Smokes Joint’ On Stage

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The 20-year-old singer sparks new controversy by lighting up as she accepts an award at the MTV Europe Music Awards.

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'Miley Cyrus on drugs: Weed, molly are the bomb, coke not so much', Los Angeles Times, 2013 

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'Miley Cyrus on drugs: Weed, molly are the bomb, coke not so much', Los Angeles Times, 2013 

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“I think weed is the best drug on earth,” she told the mag. “One time I smoked a joint with peyote in it, and I saw a wolf howling at the moon. Hollywood is a coke town, but weed is so much better. And molly, too.”

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She was born Destiny Hope Cyrus. Destiny Hope had a permanent smile on her face, so her dad started calling her Smiley Miley. Well, when Smiley Miley got older, that name got a little embarrassing, so it was shortened to just Miley.

We take a look at Cyrus' career highlights or lowlights throughout the years. (Matt Sayles / AP)

In the next dent sinking Cyrus deeper into the spiral of controversy, the 16-year-old raised eyebrows with a bra-exposed-baring and mini-short-wearing suggestive performance of wildly popular single "Party in the USA" at the 2009 Teen Choice Awards. Atop an ice cream pushcart, Cyrus straddled a pole, leading critics to see parallels between Cyrus' actions and those of a stripper. (Frazer Harrison / Getty Images)

Days after Cyrus' 18th birthday, she was found smoking salvia from a bong, with evidence leaked in a two-and-a-half minute video heard around the world. "I'm disappointed in myself for disappointing my fans," Cyrus told Marie Claire magazine months following the incident. "For me it was a bad decision, because of my fans and because of what I stand for." (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)

Cyrus, along with R&#38;B singer-songwriter Robin Thicke, gave a raunchy, lascivious, provocative, you name it, performance designed to fuel the media at MTV's most recent Video Music Awards.

(Neilson Barnard / Getty Images for MTV / Courtesy)

Miley likes molly, Miley likes weed, Miley doesn't like cocaine. That's pretty much what you need to know if you're in the mood to procure drugs for Miss Miley Cyrus.

The 20-year-old wild child shared this info with Rolling Stone for its current issue, and her opinions on marijuana might spark a few memories of her sparking up a bong hit of "salvia" back in 2010.

"I think weed is the best drug on earth," she told the mag. "One time I smoked a joint with peyote in it, and I saw a wolf howling at the moon. Hollywood is a coke town, but weed is so much better. And molly, too."

Molly is a form of the synthetic drug ecstasy, or MDMA, so it looks like it's all natural or all chemical for Cyrus.

"Those are happy drugs - social drugs. They make you want to be with friends. You're out in the open."

Unlike coke, she says. "You're not in a bathroom. I really don't like coke. It's so gross and so dark. It's like what are you, from the '90s? Ew."

Score two points for yourself if you just flashed back to the '90s and remembered that it was early in that decade that Cyrus was born. She turns 21 in November.

Might the influence of drugs explain her choice of togs at the MTV Video Music Awards, where before she stripped to a flesh-colored latex bikini she was dancing around in a onesie with a crazed teddy-bear face on it? Who knows, but here's her explanation - you decide.

"I had this obsession about this character that's like an adult baby. Like if you see a baby do something like that it's so warped and weird, but there's something creepily hot about it.

"So when I'm in that teddy bear suit, I'm like a creepy, sexy baby."
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Miley Cyrus on drugs: Weed, molly are the bomb, coke not so much

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Miley Cyrus talks weed and molly with Rolling Stone. And explains that MTV Video Music Awards teddy bear onesie.

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In this interview from 2020 Miley revealed that she had taken mushrooms and ayahuasca. She has also revealed she has taken coke but disliked it.

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Miley Cyrus Says It Would Have to Be a ‘Cold Day in Hell’ for Her to Relapse on Drugs

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The artist revealed she hasn’t “done drugs in years” and is now five weeks sober after she “fell off” sobriety with a drinking relapse during the pandemic

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'We Can't Stop' Music Video Controversy - 'On Miley Cyrus, Ratchet Culture and Accessorizing With Black People' - Jezebel, 2013

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'We Can't Stop' Music Video Controversy - 'On Miley Cyrus, Ratchet Culture and Accessorizing With Black People' - Jezebel, 2013

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"Miley seems to delight in dancing much like these strippers do: Twerking, popping the ass, bending at the waist and shaking her rump in the air. Fun. But basically, she, as a rich white woman, is “playing” at being a minority specifically from a lower socio-economic level. Along with the gold grill and some hand gestures, Miley straight-up appropriates the accoutrements associated with certain black people on the fringes of society."

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A lesson from Miley Cyrus's new video: If you want to look "cool" and "edgy" and "tough," just steal the styles and dance moves of black people.

The new pseudo-thugged out Miley has been percolating for a while; from her twerking unicorn suit video to her appearance on stage at a Juicy J show, the former Disney darling seems drawn to specific elements of a specific form of hip-hop. Not socially-conscious hip-hop. Dirty South/crunk hip-hop associated with strip clubs, pimps and drug dealers. Juicy J is formerly of Three 6 Mafia, a group who rose to fame with hits like "Slob On My Knob" and "It's Hard Out Here For A Pimp." The track Miley popped her ass to at his show, "Bandz a Make Her Dance," is specifically about hanging out in the company of strippers. Some key lyrics:
Start twerking when she hear her song, stripper pole her income We get trippy and then some, so nasty when she rollin' She put that ass up in my hands, I remote control it You say no to ratchet pussy; Juicy J can't Racks er'where, they showin' racks, I'm throwing racks In the VIP, rubber on I'm stretching that Rich niggas tippin, broke niggas lookin And it ain't a strip club if they ain't showin pussy She make that ass clap, dancin' like she on a dick Bring it back I threw a stack, that's one lucky bitch Up and down she's going she's sliding on that pole Making money, stacking them honey, shawty go
Miley seems to delight in dancing much like these strippers do: Twerking, popping the ass, bending at the waist and shaking her rump in the air. Fun. But basically, she, as a rich white woman, is "playing" at being a minority specifically from a lower socio-economic level. Along with the gold grill and some hand gestures, Miley straight-up appropriates the accoutrements associated with certain black people on the fringes of society. (See: " Ratchet Girl Anthem.")

In the video, Miley is seen with her "friends": Mostly skinny white boys and girls who appear to be models. But in a few scenes, she's seen twerking with three black women. Are they also her friends? Or is she just hoping for street cred? Note that she is wearing white, in the spotlight, the star of the video - and they are treated as props, a background for her to shine in front of. We've tackled the use of people of color in the background before; it's a theme that persists, but remains wrong. In a white-centric world, putting white women quite literally in the center of the frame while women of color are off to the side is a powerful, disrespectful visual message, and it really must be said: Human beings are not accessories. These women might be her friends, but the general dynamic created is that she is in charge and they are in service to her. Not so far off from Paula Deen's dream dinner party. Remember when Gwen Stefani surrounded herself with Harajuku girls? Margaret Cho, at the time, labeled it a minstrel show. A really on-the-nose choice of words, since white people have been mimicking black people for fun and profit from Al Jolson to Amos n' Andy to Elvis. Now we have Ke$ha (seen below) and Miley dressing up like they live in the hood. (Do not forget that thanks to her father being a huge star and her time at Disney, Miley has been wealthy for her entire life.)

There was a time, just over a decade ago, that "ghetto" took off: Everyone was using the word "ghetto," talking about being "ghetto fabulous," and even Carrie on Sex And The City was wearing gold nameplate necklaces and earrings of the sort made popular by black women. Now we're seeing the word "ratchet" get tossed around the same way, and the gear associated with "ratchet culture" - gold grills, extensions, long, intricate fingernails, contorting fingers into gang signs - is hip and cool and edgy. ( Here is a good piece explaining how "ratchet" went from an insult to a compliment.)

Let's not get it twisted: The exchange and flow of ideas between cultures can be a beautiful thing. I believe in cross-pollination and being inspired by those whose experience is not like your own. If Miley is inspired by gold teeth and bounce music and has friends who are rappers, that's not a problem. But when she uses these things to re-style her own image, she veers into dangerous territory. If she didn't have the grill, if the black women were integrated throughout the video instead of being segregated to one weird scene, if she hadn't worn that headband... This clip might not have been so problematic.

As Tamara Winfrey Harris of What Tami Said once wrote:

A Japanese teen wearing a t-shirt emblazoned with the logo of a big American company is not the same as Madonna sporting a bindi as part of her latest reinvention. The difference is history and power. Colonization has made Western Anglo culture supreme-powerful and coveted. It is understood in its diversity and nuance as other cultures can only hope to be. Ignorance of culture that is a burden to Asians, African and indigenous peoples, is unknown to most European descendants or at least lacks the same negative impact.

It matters who is doing the appropriating. If a dominant culture fancies some random element (a mode of dress, a manner of speaking, a style of music) of my culture interesting or exotic, but otherwise disdains my being and seeks to marginalize me, it is surely an insult.

Think of Derelicte, or of dressing kids up as "homeless" for Halloween. Inappropriate. Wearing a gold chain isn't blackface, just like buying a turquoise ring in Arizona is not offensive like calling your panties "Navajo" or modeling lingerie in a Native American headdress. But it's important to understand that Miley is very privileged to be able to play dress up and adorn herself with the trappings of an oppressed/minority culture. She can play at blackness without being burdened by the reality of it. A new piece for Newsweek reports:

there are more African-Americans in the corrections system today-in prison or on probation or parole-than there were enslaved in 1850.

Miley and her ilk need to be reminded that the stuff they think is cool, the accoutrements they're borrowing, have been birthed in an environment where people are underprivileged, undereducated, oppressed, underrepresented, disenfranchised, systemically discriminated against and struggling in a system set up to insure that they fail. As Sesali Bowen wrote for Feministing in March:

But being ratchet is only cool when you do it for fun, not if those are valid practices from your lived experiences [...] Folks with certain privilege are willing and able to float in and out of ratchet at will [...]

...Pop culture trends like twerking, "aint nobody got time for that," or even just using the word ratchet to define the wild things that happened at last night's party are all rooted in someone's lived experience. Sometimes it's your lived experience, but if it's not, please stop for a moment to consider your privilege and what role you may be playing in the appropriation of someone else's exploitation.

It's worth noting this track - which is chiefly about the joys of dancing like a stripper and doing lines in the bathroom- was written by two men, producers Rock City and Mike WiLL Made It and originally intended for Rihanna. (True story: Miley said to them: "I just want something that just feels Black.") But blackness is not a piece of jewelry you can slip on when you want a confidence booster or a cool look. And playing at being poor - while earning a profit by doing so - is just distasteful.

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On Miley Cyrus, Ratchet Culture and Accessorizing With Black People

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Since 2007, Jezebel has been the Internet's most treasured source for everything celebrities, sex, and politics...with teeth.

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'Wrecking Ball' Music Video - 'Miley Cyrus's new Wrecking Ball video says young women should be sexually available', The Guardian, 2013 

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'Wrecking Ball' Music Video - 'Miley Cyrus's new Wrecking Ball video says young women should be sexually available', The Guardian, 2013 

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Miley received a lot of criticism from her 'Wrecking Ball' music video. Many people didn't understand. "Now Cyrus evidently wants to cast aside her crown as queen of the tweens, and she's gone about it in the way that many young women who became famous very young have done: she's embraced sexualisation. What's startling about Cyrus's journey is the extent of the embrace: the Wrecking Ball video doesn't demonstrate a woman exploring her sexuality, it depicts a woman exploring the iconography of porn".

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Another day, another Miley Cyrus controversy. Last time it was twerking at the VMAs; this time it's the video for her new song, Wrecking Ball (hypocrisy disclosure: scroll down and you can watch the clip I'm about to complain about across several hundred words). In said video you can see: Miley nude! Miley in her undies! Miley orally pleasuring a sledgehammer! Yes, you can watch - of all the sights in the world - Miley Cyrus simulating fellatio on something you'd find in a garden shed. What next? Selena Gomez giving a handjob to a strimmer?

I have a 13-year-old daughter, so Cyrus has been part of our family life since Hannah Montana launched on the Disney Channel in 2006. In company with my daughter, I've seen countless episodes of the TV show; I've seen the spinoff movie; I've seen the 3D concert film; I s aw one of the five sold-out shows at the O2 in 2009.

Now Cyrus evidently wants to cast aside her crown as queen of the tweens, and she's gone about it in the way that many young women who became famous very young have done: she's embraced sexualisation. What's startling about Cyrus's journey is the extent of the embrace: the Wrecking Ball video doesn't demonstrate a woman exploring her sexuality, it depicts a woman exploring the iconography of porn. That was inevitable once she chose the repulsive Terry Richardson - a man whose work gives the impression that he looks at a woman and can't help seeing a blow-up sex doll - as director.

What disturbs me about Wrecking Ball isn't the fear that my daughter will look at the video and decide to learn about sex from garden implements. After all, one reason tween stars have to reinvent themselves is that the tweens themselves move on so quickly - part of the journey into adolescence consists of casting aside childhood love. I'm sure she'll be curious, and look at the video, but I also suspect she'll be embarrassed by Wrecking Ball, rather than inspired by it. That said, I'm probably not alone among parents in dreading the likely question: "Why has she done this?"

That's the more troubling aspect of Wrecking Ball. Maybe Cyrus has done this entirely of her own voliition. And it is certainly not my place, as a 44-year-old man, to pronounce on how 20-year-old women should display their sexuality. But whatever her reasons for making the video, Cyrus does send a message: that the best way for young women to be noticed is to sexually objectify themselves. And, in this case - sadly - it seems to have worked.

It's now five past noon, and Wrecking Ball has had 14,453,182 views on YouTube. It's added more than a million since I started writing this piece. I'm reminded of a line spoken by Ryan Gosling in the film Crazy Stupid Love: "The war between the sexes is over. We won the second women started doing pole dancing for exercise."

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Even sadder, though, is that proof is out there that young women can be huge popular successes without turning themselves into sex toys for Terry Richardson. Cyrus didn't have to go this way. Taylor Swift connects with a huge, young audience, and she does so through her songs and her personality, not by turning herself into - let's not put too fine a point on this - a wank fantasy. Ditto Kacey Musgraves, reaching No2 in the US album charts with her fantastic record Same Trailer Different Park.

So, as a parent, I can't help but be glad that my daughter's favourite records of the moment include Same Trailer Different Park and Swift's last album, Red. And I wonder how many of the tens of millions of people who will watch the video for Wrecking Ball will translate that prurient interest into a desire to see Cyrus's next tour, or download her next album, or watch her next film. Because exposing yourself so completely makes your flaws all the more apparent.

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Miley Cyrus's new Wrecking Ball video says young women should be sexually available

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Another day, another Miley Cyrus controversy. Last time it was twerking at the VMAs; this time it's the video for her new song, Wrecking Ball (hypocrisy disclosure: scroll down and you can watch the clip I'm about to complain about across several hundred words). In said video you can see: Miley nude!

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'Miley Cyrus Reveals Clever Way She Hid Money She Spent on Drugs From Her Accountant', E News, 2025

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'Miley Cyrus Reveals Clever Way She Hid Money She Spent on Drugs From Her Accountant', E News, 2025

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Miley admitted in an interview in 2025 that in 2015 she was able to get away with spending thousands on drugs by mislabelling the purchases to her accountant. Instead she would say that she had spent the money on vintage clothes.

“Every time she saw me, she'd be like, ‘Where's that $15,000 original John Lennon T-shirt that you bought?’” Miley continued. “I was like, ‘Ohhh, it's upstairs. Would you like some?''

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"I've learned this about myself over the years," Miley explained during a May 21 Apple Music interview . "Sobriety is-that's like my God. I need it, I live for it. It's changed my entire life."

And though the "Flowers" singer admitted she had relapsed during the Covid-19 pandemic, who she is today is a result of all of her experiences.

"I was so close to who is sitting here right now but life had more to teach me," Miley shared. "It had more lessons for me. I know I needed to fall one more time. It just never would've happened this way. I just wouldn't have been sitting here."

And although she is "not proud" of her stumbles, she is grateful for where they've brought her in her journey.

"It all led me to writing 'Flowers,' which then was some sort of key into the lock of all healing," Miley said. "It healed me so much."

Read on for more stars who have been open about their journeys with addiction and sobriety.

After the Backstreet Boys member relapsed in 2021, he noted he "got sober again for the last time."

"I'm sticking this one out all the way," he told in July 2025. "It's a daily thing. But I have finally done what has been suggested amongst the sober community, and my life has flipped in a positive way."

While AJ acknowledged he is "still learning, still growing," he's now confident in who he is.

"I've discovered new verbiage, such as boundaries, never really had those," he continued. "Now I have those, which is a blessing. AJ is a member of a group. He is a persona, but he doesn't define me as an individual. Alexander James is who I am."

In October 2018, the American Pie star announced he was one year sober in a celebratory and encouraging post.

"I first tried to get sober over 5 years ago, when the weight of my obsession with booze and drugs became too heavy for me to handle," he wrote at the time. "Turns out this s--t is hard."

He continued, "After some fits and starts, I've managed to put together one year of sobriety. I'm as proud of it as anything in my life. If you're struggling, know there's help. Don't be ashamed. We can do this."

Years later, he reflected on his journey with addiction and the lengths he went to hide the his struggle.

"I'm going to therapy and 'working on things' but meanwhile I'm leaving therapy, having just had a good session, and I'm going to the liquor store and buying a fifth of vodka, drinking it and then driving home," he said on a March 2024 episode of his wife Jenny Mollen's podcast. "I knew how to get wasted enough to where I took myself out of the life equation, took myself out of the present, didn't have to connect in a way that made me feel things."

He added, "I had it figured out to a T. To not get too drunk where I couldn't have a conversation with you. I was replacing those bottles in the bar all the time."

The two-time FIFA Women's World Cup champ has been open about her misuse of Adderall while battling injuries during her college soccer career.

"I was getting really heavily addicted to Adderall and misusing it," she said on a 2025 episode of the Question Everything with Danielle Robay podcast. "I was taking it all the time. I would go days without sleeping. It was wild. I felt like I was gonna give myself a heart attack. I was crushing it. I was snorting it. It was so problematic."

However, in the midst of her struggle, her college coach Anson Dorrance was there to support her.

"It got really, really dark and I had to make some serious adjustments," she explained, "and Anson would have me read books. I started reading this book called [ Man's Search ] for Meaning and it's about suffering and reframing it and it changed my life."

In October 2025, the Migos member shared he was four years sober from codeine-an opioid used to make the soda-based drink sizzurp-after a "wake-up call" from his teenage son Jordan.

"My oldest son kept asking for like pineapple Fanta, but he don't even really drink soda," Offset recounted on Baby, This Is Keke Palmer. "And then one day he came in studio like, 'Why yours is different color than mine?' It killed me."

Explaining how the innocuous remark "touched" a nerve, Offset continued, "When I went in my room, I damn near cried."

"I felt bad as a father," the rapper added. "He don't even notice it's drugs in here though. He don't know, but in my head it's like, him even just saying he want the same soda I want. It's just like, 'Oh no, I'm influencing him.'"

The Valley star shared his decades-long battle with drugs in March 2025 after going to rehab.

"I am coming out that I'm an addict," Jax shared during the March 4 episode of Bravo's podcast. "I have substance issues, primarily with cocaine. It's hard to say out loud."

"I've been dealing with this on and off since I was 23 and now I'm 45," he continued. "There was times where I would stop doing it but then there were times where I'd go heavy on it."

Jax also gave up drinking, explaining, "I don't necessarily think I have an alcohol problem, but the two go hand in hand. I can't do cocaine without drinking. So, I just gave up both. I'm proud to say I'm 82, 83 days sober right now, which is the longest I've ever gone in my life without either."

Tom Holland

The Spider-Man: No Way Home star stopped drinking alcohol in 2022 after feeling "enslaved" to the drink. "I was definitely addicted to alcohol, not shying away from that at all," Holland recalled on the On Purpose with Jay Shetty podcast. "I think that anyone that has a beer everyday has probably got a little bit of a problem."

"And then you would just reach that moment where you're like 'Wow, I shouldn't have had that last beer,'" the actor continued. "And you wake up the next day and you have a terrible headache."

Since making the lifestyle change, Holland noticed he "could sleep better" and "handle problems better."

"Things that would go wrong on set that would normally set me off, I could take in my stride," he shared. "I had so much such better mental clarity. I felt healthier. I felt fitter."

The star of Hunt for Red October does not often speak to his sobriety journey, which began almost forty years ago.

"I don't discuss this a lot," he said during a May 2024 podcast appearance. "I discuss it every now and then when it makes sense. I'm 39 years sober. I got sober Feb. 23, 1985."

Speaking about his life after moving from New York City to Los Angeles in 1983, Alec explained, "I had a white-hot problem every day for two years. I think I snorted a line of cocaine from here to Saturn. We took it back home. I mean, cocaine was like coffee back then. Everybody was doing it all day long."

And after quitting the drug, he soon turned to alcohol-only to also quit that dependency.

Today, he relies on the city around him.

"New York relaxes me," he shared of his home. "I walk around and I see aspects of it that I've never seen before. I'll look at a building and I'll go, 'My God, I never noticed that about that building, those doors.' I have lunches and coffee and my friends."

The Princess Diaries alum shared in April 2024 that she is more than five years sober. As she told the New York Times, "That feels like a milestone to me."

Her reasoning was clear. "I knew deep down it wasn't for me," she shared. "And it just felt so extreme to have to say, 'But none?' But none. If you're allergic to something or have an anaphylactic reaction to something, you don't argue with it. So I stopped arguing with it."

And she's happy she made that decision. "My personal experience with it is that everything is better," she continued. "For me, it was wallowing fuel. And I don't like to wallow."

While accepting the 2018 Woman of the Year Award by the Peggy Albrecht Friendly House, a residential program for women recovering from substance and alcohol abuse, Moore spoke about the "self-destructive path" that nearly derailed her career.

"I feel like there's a defining moments in our lives that shape who we are and the direction we go and early in my career, I was spiraling down a path of real self-destruction and no matter what successes I had, I just never felt good enough," the star recalled. "I had absolutely no value for myself and this self-destructive path, it very quickly brought me to a real crisis point and it wasn't clear at the time the reason. Maybe it was divine intervention."

Moore, who sought treatment in 2012, thanked two unnamed people she "barely knew" for delivering something of an ultimatum to her to turn her life around. "Unless I was dead, I better show up," she quipped, adding that she was given "a chance to redirect the course of my life before I destroyed everything."

"Clearly they saw more of me than I saw of myself," Moore noted. "And I'm so grateful because without that opportunity, without their believing me, I wouldn't be standing here today."

Cyrus shared in 2022 that she's been in recovery for her Xanax addiction since 2020. "It gave me so much structure in the time that I really needed structure, because I didn't want to just be sitting around and stirring in my brain," she told Rolling Stone. "It gave me hope."

The singer added, "Once I felt that it was possible to silence things out for a second and numb your pain, it was over."

She said her friends at the time "kind of cosigned" her drug use and "it just kind of becomes this dark pit, bottomless pit." But, during the pandemic, Cyrus said she was noticing challenges and felt she wasn't emotionally present. "I was completely nodding off and falling asleep," she recalled. "And unable to keep my head up or keep my eyes open, because I was so far gone."

She eventually sought help and noted that "it took some time to get on my own two feet."

The "Lose Yourself" rapper reflected on his prior prescription pill abuse in his 2025 documentary Stans, noting an overdose and missing his daughter Hailie Jade's birthday party prompted a change.

"I cried because it was like, 'Oh my god, I missed that,'" he said in the doc. "I kept saying to myself, 'Do you want to f--king miss this again? Do you want to miss everything? If you can't do it for yourself, you f--king pussy, at least do it for them.'"

Eventually, channeling his energy back into his music helped the Oscar winner on his sobriety journey.

"It did something. It turned the light on," he explained. "I realized I'm not embarrassed anymore about [sobriety]. I started treating sobriety like a super power and I took pride in the fact that I was able to quit."

Dax Shepard

The Parenthood alum was sober for 16 years before relapsing in 2020 by taking Vicodin after a motorcycle accident.

"For the last eight weeks maybe, I don't really know...I'm on them all day," he said on his Armchair Expert podcast. "And I'm allowed to be on them at some dosage because I have a prescription and then I'm also augmenting that."

"And I hate it," he continued. "And I'm lying to other people. And I know I have to quit. But my tolerance is going up so quickly that I'm now in a situation where I'm taking, you know, eight 30s a day, and I know that's an amount that's going to result in a pretty bad withdrawal. And I start getting really scared, and I'm starting to feel really lonely. And I just have this enormous secret."

In 2018, the Halloween star got very candid about her 10-year addiction to opiates, which began in the late '80s after a minor plastic surgery "for my hereditary puffy eyes." The reslt was a prescription that changed her life. "I had a 10-year run, stealing, conniving," she told . "No one knew. No one."

When her sister visited her in the summer of 1998 and brought along prescribed painkillers for a rib injury, Curtis said she hit her rock bottom. "I knew she had them in her suitcase in our guest room closet," she told the publication, crying at the memory. "I basically took all her opiates. When she was leaving I knew she would pack her suitcase and find her pills missing. I knew I had to acknowledge to her what I had done, and so I wrote her a note and left it on her suitcase. I came home that day, and she put her arms around me and told me she loved me and she was concerned about me and she was unwilling to watch me kill myself."

She attended her first meeting on Feb. 3, 1999, the same day she revealed her struggle to her filmmaker husband Christopher Guest. "He was incredulous that he'd never noticed," Curtis said, adding that she's been sober ever since.

Drew Barrymore

Barrymore, who previously went to rehab for alcohol and drug addiction, shared in 2021 that she was marking a big milestone in her journey. "I'm just going to say something for the first time in a long time: I have not had a drink of alcohol in two and a half years," she said on CBS Mornings. "And it was something that I realized just did not serve me in my life."

She added, "It's so funny. When we reveal ourselves and our truths and the things we've worked so hard for, it's so liberating and vulnerable all at the same time."

Barrymore later explained to the Los Angeles Times that she doesn't use the "sober" label because she doesn't want people to think she's "some perfect Puritan."

"I kept thinking, 'I'll master this. I'll figure it out,'" she said in 2023. "And finally, I just realized: 'You've never mastered this, and you never will.'"

Bradley Cooper

The A Star Is Born actor struggled with a cocaine addiction during the early aughts before friend Will Arnett stepped in and confronted him out about his behavior.

"That was the first time I ever realized I had a problem with drugs and alcohol⁠," Cooper recalled during a 2022 appearance on the Smartless podcast. "I'll just never forget it."

Crediting Arnett as "the reason" he went sober, Cooper added, "He took that risk of having a hard conversation with me that put me on a path of deciding to change my life."

The Fight Club star spent years struggling with alcohol beforeCooper helped him get sober. "I got sober because of this guy," he told the audience at the 2020 National Board of Review Annual Awards after Cooper presented him with a trophy. "And every day's been happier ever since."

Ryan Phillippe

In September 2023, the Cruel Intentions alum shared on Instagram that this was " the longest I've gone since I was a teen without some kind of nicotine or marijuana in my system (among other things)."

"Feeling thankful for the freedom that comes with breaking addictions and dependency on substance," he added. "Sobriety, clarity, and spiritual connectedness feels real good."

Demi Lovato

After publicly celebrating six years of sobriety on tour in 2018, the singer stunned fans later that same year with the release of the confessional single "Sober," which revealed that she had relapsed.

"Mama, I'm so sorry I'm not sober anymore / And Daddy please forgive me for the drinks spilled on the floor / To the ones who never left me / We've been down this road before I'm so sorry, I'm not sober anymore," she sang.

A month later, Lovato was hospitalized for a near-fatal overdose.

"I have always been transparent about my journey with addiction," she wrote on Instagram two weeks later. "What I've learned is that this illness is not something that disappears or fades with time. It is something I must continue to overcome and have not done yet...I now need time to heal and focus on my sobriety and road to recovery. The love you have all shown me will never be forgotten and I look forward to the day where I can say I came out on the other side. I will keep fighting."

Jada Pinkett Smith

In 2018, she recalled battling her addiction s to sex and alcohol. "My sort of addictions jump. They jump around. When I was younger, I definitely think I had a sex addiction of some kind, yes, that everything could be fixed by sex," she said, before sharing about the time she realized she'd developed a troubling drinking problem.

"I remember reaching a rock bottom that time I was in the house by myself and I had those two bottles of wine and was going for the third bottle," she said. "And I was like, 'Now hold up. You're in the this house by yourself going onto your third bottle of wine? You might have a problem.'"

"So I went cold turkey. That's the thing about me: I can go cold turkey. I am a binger, and I always have to watch myself and I can just get obsessed with things," she continued. "It's not what you're doing but how you're with it. Why you're doing it. It's the behavior that's attached to it because if you want to have a lot of sex, that's great, but why are you having all that sex? That's what you've got to look at."

The Backstreet Boys member tried drugs for the first time before filming the music video for 2000's "The Call," telling Good Morning America years later that he "was off the walls" during the shoot. He got sober in 2021 and saw numerous positive benefits just one year later, including losing 32 pounds in seven months by cutting out alcohol and fast food.

"Drinking caused weight gain," he told Today in September 2022, "but it also weighed down my mental state."

After the sudden death of Mac Miller, the rapper-born Shad Moss-took to Twitter to let his fans know that he'd once struggled with a cough syrup addiction.

"To the youth- Stop with these dumb ass drugs," he began his series of tweets. "Im going to let something out. When me and Omarion worked on FACE OFF album. I was high off lean everyday! When yall saw me on BET going off on Torae i was high off lean. My attitude everything changed. My fans started to...Turn on me my family too. I never promoted lean in my songs. The whole time i was on the UCP tour with Chris [ Brown] I WAS SIPPING 4's atleast 7 times a day. I was addicted until our show in Cincinnati.. i came off stg and passed out woke up in the hospital i was having withdraws."

"I never felt a pain like that ever," Bow Wow continued. "It was summer but i was walking round with 3 hoodies on because i was so cold. I missed the chicago show of that tour baltimore show BECAUSE I WAS F--KING HIGH AND SICK!!!! that s--t is not cool and i was doing it to be cool! Kick that s--t! Be a good son or daughter. Be the best you. Ima start being more vocal. We gotta save the youth from going out early. Parents watch your kids. Explain to them. We want yall to live man. I almost died f--king with syrup."

"To this day im affected my stomach will...Never be the same and it hasnt been. DRUG FREE IS THE WAY TO BE! smarten up tighten up out here," he told his fans. "We cant lose no more of you. Not one! I love all yall. The young artist all the kids around the world.. dont follow a trend. Break the cycle. PEACE."

With the dual releases of her fourth studio album No Shame and memoir My Thoughts Exactly, the singer spent much of 2018 getting brutally honest about the height of her addition problems. According to Allen, she was abusing cocaine and drinking to the point of being "parisitically drunk. Ultimately, Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin staged an intervention after she accidentally headbutted Orlando Bloom at Kate Hudson's Halloween party and knocked herself out.

She told The Guardian, "Nothing seemed to reach or satisfy me. I remember waking up one morning in those dark days thinking, 'Maybe it's time for heroin, because nothing else is working.'"

Dennis Quaid

The Parent Trap actor battled a cocaine addiction throughout the '80s that sent him to rehab in 1990. As he later explained on Today, he grew up in the '60s and '70s when "there was a completely different attitude" towards the drug.

"It was even in some movie budgets. I was basically doing cocaine pretty much on a daily basis during the '80s," he admitted in 2018. "I spent many, many a night screaming at God to 'Please take this away from me and I'll never do it again, cause I've only got an hour before I have to be at work.' Then at 4 o'clock in the afternoon I'd go, 'Oh it's not so bad.'"

"I had what I call a white light experience where I saw myself either dead or losing everything that meant anything to me," he continued. He had to sit down then-fiancée Meg Ryan and explain what was going on. Then, he sought help. "That was the end of the love affair with me and cocaine."

Ryan Lochte

After an incident in Newport Beach where the Olympic swimmer tried to kick in his own hotel room door, Lochte made the decision to seek treatment in 2018. "Ryan has been battling from alcohol addiction for many years and unfortunately it has become a destructive pattern for him," his rep told E! News in a statement. "He has acknowledged that he needs professional assistance to overcome his problem and will be getting help immediately."

"Ryan knows that conquering this disease now is a must for him to avoid making future poor decisions, to be the best husband and father he can be, and if he wants to achieve his goal to return to dominance in the pool in his 5th Olympics in Tokyo in 2020," the statement concluded.

Although the Parenthood alum knows that "one of the things that you're not supposed to do is get sober for somebody else," his relationship with now-wife Melanie Lynskey was a major reason that led him to swearing off alcohol.

"At a point, I knew how amazing she was and I thought she would be incredible for someone who deserved her," he explained during a March 2023 appearance on The Drew Barrymore Show, "and I didn't feel like I was that person. I felt a little bit too crazy."

However, as Ritter noted to E! News, he now sees that sobriety is ultimately a personal choice.

"It was easier for me to say that I'm doing it for her because, at that time, I didn't feel like I was sort of worth much," he recalled of the early days of their relationship. "I didn't care as much about hurting myself as I did about hurting her. So, initially it was easier for me to say, 'I'm doing this for her.' And now, I'm doing it for myself."

The country star has been sober for nearly a decade, but it was a hard-fought road getting there. His addiction to alcohol and pain pills began soon after graduating from high school and didn't abate when his career began to take off. He kept a black leather laptop bag filled with bottles of Jagermeister or vodka "at arm's reach at all times," he told previously revealed to , adding that throughout the day, "every hour and a half to two hours it'd be time to get two or three good pulls on the bottle. And every three or four hours it's time for a pill or two."

And it had no effect on his success. "It wasn't like I was stumbling around all day," he admitted. "I was fully functioning - I wrote more songs then than I do now. That was the scary part."

In late 2011, he was hospitalized with pancreatitis and was told that if he didn't stop drinking, he wouldn't see his next birthday. "I still put it off and was trying to slow down on my own, like, 'All right I'm only gonna let myself take two pills today. I'm only gonna drink this much of my bottle and make a mark on the bottle,'" he recalled. "And it would work a couple days-and then somebody throws a party."

He eventually sought help, entering rehab on Dec. 18, 2011. "I got to the point where I knew it was something I couldn't do on my own," Gilbert said. "Pissed me off to no end and embarrassed me. I'm a pretty strong-willed person but that was the one thing in my life that I couldn't get to stick."

For free and confidential help for those facing mental and/or substance use disorders, call the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) national helpline at 1-800-662-HELP (4357).

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Miley Cyrus Reveals Clever Way She Hid Money She Spent on Drugs From Her Accountant

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Hannah Montana alum Miley Cyrus detailed how she was able to hide the thousands of dollars she spent on drugs in 2015 by purposely mislabeling her expenses.

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Miley stopped smoking marijuana in 2017 and stopped drinking in 2020.

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Miley Cyrus Explains How Sobriety ‘Changed My Entire Life’

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The singer opened up about her decision, four years into quitting drinking.

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The Happy Hippie Foundation is a non profit organisation founded by Miley in 2014 which supports homeless youth, LGBTQ youth and other vulnerable populations. Which was rebranded to The Miley Cyrus Foundation in 2024 to facilitate "more adult conversations" and to reflect her own growth.

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The Happy Hippie Foundation rallies young people to fight injustice.

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Miley has over the years grown and matured from the Bnagerz era. She has come into her own and is creating music that feels more authentic to her. She doesn't smoke or drink anymore, she seems to have calmed down a lot.

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Mental Health - 'Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman: the Two Sides of Miley Cyrus', Elle, 2014

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Mental Health - 'Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman: the Two Sides of Miley Cyrus', Elle, 2014

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In 2014 Miley opened up about her struggles with mental health. She stated in an interview "It's more of an issue than people really want to talk about. Because people don't know how to talk about being depressed—that it's totally okay to feel sad. I went through a time where I was really depressed. Like, I locked myself in my room and my dad had to break my door down. It was a lot to do with, like, I had really bad skin, and I felt really bullied because of that. But I never was depressed because of the way someone else made me feel, I just was depressed".

She also speaks about her fans reactions to her coming out as gay "I have guys and girls that come out, and they're like, "The only reason I'm able to admit that I'm gay is because you've made me feel like that's okay." That is so intense, because that is a part of this generation—it wasn't always accepted—and I feel like I am a big part of that change".

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Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman: the Two Sides of Miley Cyrus

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“You go from 20,000 people screaming like, ‘I love you, I love you!’ and then youre just in your hotel room by yourself, quiet.”

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In 2014 Miley came out as pansexual which means she's attracted to anyone regardless of their gender.

Throughout the years it is clear Miley is very happy to speak about taboo topics such as drugs, mental health and sexuality which were not as normalised at the time.

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She says her first ever relationship was with another female but that she's never enjoyed "acting like a girl" herself.

The 23-year-old was in a relationship with actor Liam Hemsworth between 2012 and 2013.

Pansexual people are attracted to others regardless of their sex or gender.

"My whole life, I didn't understand my own gender and my own sexuality," she tells US magazine Variety.

In 2015 she said she was "open to every single thing".
Read more: 11 celebs open up about their gender and sexuality
"I always hated the word 'bisexual' because that's even putting me in a box. I don't ever think about someone being a boy or someone being a girl.

"My eyes started opening in the fifth or sixth grade. My first relationship in my life was with a chick."

She's been celebrated and criticised for her onstage persona - but she says she never saw anything sexual in her performances or costumes.

"My nipple pasties and **** never felt sexualised to me," she adds.

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Miley Cyrus: I don't feel straight and I don't feel gay

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Singer and LGBTQ rights campaigner reveals her private struggles with sexuality and sexual identity.

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The New Brittany Spears or Lindsay Lohan

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The New Brittany Spears or Lindsay Lohan

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As Miley was going through her transitional period of her star persona she was compared to past child Disney stars Brittany Spears or Lindsay Lohan. People were almost waiting for this to happen as she would be following the child star trajectory.

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Album Review: Miley Cyrus – Can’t Be Tamed

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As word began to spread about the liberation of Miley Cyrus from Disney’s shackles, pundits began equating her de-Mousification with another high-profile Mouseketeer’s: Britney Spears. But, the comparison doesn’t quite fit as snugly as it should. While Cyrus is certainly taking some cues from the Spears playbook in this phase of her career, the specter […]

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In 2023 "Miley Cyrus had the biggest song of the year, with the break-up anthem Flowers attracting 198 million streams".

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Female artists dominated 2023 music charts - but new acts are being squeezed out

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But only one of the top 10 biggest-selling albums of 2023 was a new release, official figures show.

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'Emotional Miley becomes youngest-ever Disney Legend', BBC News, 2024

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Miley has become the youngest Disney star to reach the 'Disney Legend' status.

'Miley also joked that she "definitely wasn't created in a lab", in a nod to rumours that Disney kids are created in the Californian Disney office.

"If I was, there must have been a bug in the system which caused me to malfunction somewhere between the years of 2013 and 2016."'

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The Flowers singer had her big break playing Hannah Montana on the Disney Channel when she was 13.

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Miley very recently announced that she wrote a song that will be in the new Avatar: Fire And Ash film.

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Miley Cyrus is channeling a painful memory into music for one of the most highly anticipated films of 2025: Avatar: Fire and Ash.

As announced Wednesday (Oct. 22), the pop star will contribute an original song to the Avatar sequel's soundtrack. Sharing a snippet of the track on social media, Cyrus shared that she was inspired by her own experience with losing her Malibu home to a devastating fire in 2018 while working on the track.

"Having been personally affected by fire and being rebuilt from the ashes, this project holds profound meaning for me," she wrote. "Thank you, [James Cameron], for the opportunity to turn that experience into musical medicine. The film's themes of unity, healing, and love resonate deeply within my soul, and to be even a small star in the universe the Avatar family has created is truly a dream come true."

In the sneak peek at the song, Cyrus sings over a lush orchestral arrangement, "Even through the flames, even through the ashes in the sky/ Baby when we dream, we dream as one."

Avatar: Fire and Ash is set to premiere in theaters in December, more than 15 years after the first film in the franchise came out. The original Avatar - which starred Sam Worthington and Zoe Saldana - is considered the highest grossing movie of all time, raking in more than $2 billion in the box office.

Cyrus has been open about how seriously the 2018 wildfire affected her. At the time, she posted that the home she shared with then-husband Liam Hemsworth had been completely destroyed, though all of her animals were safely evacuated.

When wildfires again broke out in California this year, Cyrus again touched on the experience. "It's a feeling you don't ever forget," she said. "Walking up to the door you would pass through daily, looking forward to being greeted by the ones you love like you always do but instead being met by a pile of ash and rubble."

See Cyrus' announcement below.

Honored to support Avatar: Fire and Ash with an original song I've written with Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt. Having been personally affected by fire and being rebuilt from the ashes, this project holds profound meaning for me. Thank you, Jim, for the opportunity to turn that... pic.twitter.com/OyHvzZJhXp
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Miley Cyrus Pens 'Avatar' Song Inspired by Devastating House Fire: 'This Project Holds Profound Meaning'

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Miley Cyrus penned a song for 'Avatar' that she says was inspired by losing her home to a devastating fire in 2018.

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3. Mileys Acting Career After Hannah Montana 

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Directed by Julie Anne Robinson. With Miley Cyrus, Liam Hemsworth, Greg Kinnear, Bobby Coleman. A rebellious girl is sent to a Southern beach town for the summer to stay with her father. Through their mutual love of music, the estranged duo learn to reconnect.

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LOL (2012) ⭐ 4.4 | Comedy, Drama, Romance

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Bolt (2008) ⭐ 6.8 | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

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Miley was fired from Hotel Transylvania for being pictured next to a penis birthday cake in 2012.

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Miley Cyrus was fired from Adam Sandler's 'Hotel Transylvania' for a wild reason

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Miley Cyrus revealed on Monica Lewinsky's podcast how she was fired from the "Hotel Transylvania" franchise for a penis cake photo.

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These were Mileys most popular films that she was in before she changed her star persona. In these movies she is still 'Americas Sweetheart' she still looks like the Hannah Montana young girls fell in love with. After these films she started her Bangerz era in 2013 which changed her persona and she did not appear in any films during this era.

Her doing voice acting for Bolt shows the success she was already having two years into her career.

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In 2019 Miley starred in a Black Mirror episode. Revisiting her acting career.

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“Black Mirror” Rachel, Jack and Ashley Too (TV Episode 2019) ⭐ 6.1 | Crime, Drama, Mystery

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Miley played herself at a movie premiere.

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While wrestling with the pressures of life, love, and work in Manhattan, Carrie, Miranda, and Charlotte join Samantha for a trip to Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates), where Samantha's ex is filming a new movie.

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Directed by Michael Patrick King. With Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis, Cynthia Nixon. While wrestling with the pressures of life, love, and work in Manhattan, Carrie, Miranda, and Charlotte join Samantha for a trip to Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates), where Samantha's ex is filming a new movie.

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Miley has a small cameo in the film during a pool scene.

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Nominated for 2 Primetime Emmys. Another 4 wins & 7 nominations. See more awards "

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:

Storyline

Troy is offered a job at Ryan & Sharpay's country club and ends up landing jobs for Gabriella, Chad, Taylor, Kelsi, Jason, Martha and Zeke. He is then introduced to Sharpay's parents and realizes that Sharpay can land him many opportunities and even a basketball scholarship. Meanwhile, while Troy starts hanging out with the rich folk, Chad is worried that Troy will forget his friends. Gabriella feels as though she is losing Troy to Sharpay. In the end, Troy will have to learn how to think about his scholarship without losing his friends. Written by zngnn

Taglines:

They're facing their biggest challenge yet.......summer jobs

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Trivia

Four different clocks were used for the scene in Ms. Darbus' classroom, each of increasing size. See more "

Goofs

During the kitchen singing sequence, a greasy cloth moves from the floor to the bottom shelf of the table, then disappears, and reappears on the floor, then later disappears. See more "

Quotes

[first lines]
: You must remember, young thespians, learning is never seasonal, so do allow the shimmering lights of Summer to refresh and illuminate your fertile young minds.
Chad Danforth : What is she talking about?
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Soundtracks

I Don't Dance
Written by Matthew Gerrard and Robbie Nevil
Produced by Matthew Gerrard
Performed by Corbin Bleu (uncredited) and Lucas Grabeel (uncredited)
Seven Peaks Music (ASCAP)
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User Reviews

Details

Release Date:

17 August 2007 (USA)

Also Known As:

High School Musical 2: Sing It All or Nothing!

Box Office

Budget:

$7,000,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Technical Specs

Runtime:

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High School Musical 2 (TV Movie 2007) - IMDb

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Directed by Kenny Ortega. With Zac Efron, Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Tisdale, Lucas Grabeel. School's out for summer and the East High Wildcats are ready to make it the time of their lives after landing jobs in a wealthy country club owned by Sharpay and Ryan's family.

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Miley Cyrus has embodied multiple star images throughout the different eras of her career.

Promotion relates to her Hannah Montana era where she was the face of merchandise, she would make public appearances and have fan clubs.

Publicity relates to her scandals when she was just starting to break free from Hannah Montana.

Films can be linked to her cameos in films like Sex and the City 2 where she played herself at the peak of her career as Hannah Montana.

Criticism can clearly relate to all of the controversies she has faced throughout her career, especially during her Bangerz era.

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The two Celebrity Industries that Turner discusses that resonate most with Miley are the appearance industry as each era of her star persona has been paired with a new look or rebrand. Her appearance is how she has stayed relevant weather it be for good or for bad. The second being the the endorsement industry, specifically for her Hannah Montana era, as seen from the merch that was released which included toys, clothes, games ect.

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The idea of 'persona' is a celebrity who shapes how they are viewed through the characters they play in films and their public appearances. This allows for an unknowing of who they truly are.

In Mileys case her 'persona' was Hannah Montana, a country girl, 'America's Sweetheart'. That was the 'persona' that was made for her to fit into which is why when videos of her smoking weed or lap dancing were leaked it shocked the public because that was not the 'persona' that she had created, but her star 'persona' isn't actually her. Who Miley really was was just a normal teenage girl wanting to feel her age but that's not what the public saw her as which is why everybody was in such shock.

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Throughout Mileys career websites, blogs, online news, review pages grew in popularity as the internet became a bigger space. Meyers suggests that Hannah Montana would have been Mileys highly constructed figure which fans loved and thought she truly was, but with the rise of tabloids, magazines, and the internet which can spread news in an instant, Miley, as a regular person was brought to the surface through all of these media types 'exposing' her and shaming her for regular teenage things.