By Shawn Smith
Like other child stars who’ve made the public and often messy transition to adulthood, Miley Cyrus experienced her share of growing pains.
The superstar recently reflected on her “Bangerz” era (around 2013-2015), where she became more known for provocative performances and scantily to non-attired appearances on stage and videos than for her wholesome HANNAH MONTANA image.
“That was the time where I just got hit so hard, and I was so embarrassed,” Cyrus told Monica Lewinsky on her “Reclaiming” podcast.
The “Flowers” singer said that the backlash was so intense that her younger brother Braison and sister Noah “didn’t want to go to school, because of how humiliated they were to be related to me,” she admitted.
“I had a lot of guilt about how hard it would’ve been to be my sibling or my parent, and how embarrassing,” she went on to say.
Her risqué behavior made it uncomfortable to face her father singer Billy Ray Cyrus as well, who played her father on HANNAH MONTANA.
“It was really hard for me to go home and see my dad and look him in the eyes,” the Tennessee native recalled.
She admitted that she felt she “lost everything.” Even her relationship with ex-husband Liam Hemsworth, whom she was engaged to at the time, suffered.
“That didn’t work out, because I was sharing a part of myself that men wanted to be saved for them only,” the 32-year-old said.
In her interview with Lewinsky, she also opened up about her family’s healing process after her father and mother Tish’s divorce in 2022.
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“Half of us weren’t speaking to each other at one point, cleaned all that up. That was a really important part of my year…putting those lines of communications back together,” Cyrus said.
She said that she and her father are no longer estranged, and Billy Ray is in a new relationship with Elizabeth Hurley.
“I’m being an adult about it,” she told the New York Times. “At first it’s hard, because the little kid in you reacts before the adult in you can go, ‘Yes, that’s your dad, but that’s just another person that deserves to be in his bliss and to be happy.’ My child self has caught up.”
Miley grew up in the Christian faith but “fell off that path a little bit because I think I had a hard time finding a relationship with God that worked for me as an adult,” Billboard previously reported in 2020.
“I’m not super religious, and sometimes I tap in and out of my spirituality more than others, because as life is hard, it’s hard to believe that something is greater than us protecting and moving these chess pieces, because at times it can feel so random,” Cyrus told Lewinsky regarding her current spiritual state.
We pray that in her season of reflection and healing in her family that she will return to her childhood faith with deeper roots as, it says in Ephesians 3:17-19:
And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.
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