Miley Cyrus confirmed her engagement to Maxx Morando in a gushing interview this week, noting her private {and professional} lives have turn into “perfectly aligned.”
Showing on “Good Morning America” Tuesday, Cyrus fortunately confirmed off her engagement ring, and mentioned her new fiancé shocked her by popping the query throughout a current journey to Japan.
“I am not easy to surprise because I love to control every situation, and I had completely surrendered,” she mentioned. “I actually had never gone to Japan, which I did that purposefully. I wanted one place in the world that could be my special place that I saved for me.”
She went on to notice: “Me and Maxx have been together for four years, and it’s very obvious the drastic amount of growth that I’ve had in those four years. You just want to dream the biggest you can, and you want to have someone by your side that always tells you, ‘You can do it.’”
The three-time Grammy winner’s “GMA” look comes days after she and Morando, a drummer for the rock band Liily, sparked engagement rumors once they walked the crimson carpet on the premiere of “Avatar: Fire and Ash” in Los Angeles.
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Many retailers took word of Cyrus’ engagement ring, which was later revealed to have been designed by Jacquie Aiche, who has additionally crafted signature items for Selena Gomez and Taylor Swift, amongst different stars.
Cyrus and Morando seemingly confirmed their relationship in April 2022, regardless that they’d been romantically linked within the media for months beforehand. Morando and his Liily bandmates would go on to seem on the NBC vacation particular “Miley’s New Year’s Eve Party,” hosted by Cyrus. The pair additionally labored collectively within the studio on “Something Beautiful,” Cyrus’ newest album.
In 2023, Cyrus advised British Vogue that she and Morando had been launched on a blind date. “Well, it was blind for me and not really for him,” she mentioned on the time. “I thought, ‘The worst that can happen is I leave.’”
Final 12 months, she advised Harper’s Bazaar that falling in love with one among her skilled collaborators got here naturally: “I worked with my dad forever. That’s how me and my ex-husband met each other. I’ve always worked with the people that I love. And Maxx just inspires me so much.”
Elsewhere in her “GMA” chat, Cyrus famous that “Dream as One,” her theme track for “Avatar: Fire and Ash,” mirrored her present mindset.
“People think of it as a film that’s larger than life at this grand scale, but actually at the heart of ‘Avatar,’ it’s really about relationships, love, having each other’s back,” she mentioned. “And so it actually felt very aligned with my life.”
Watch Miley Cyrus’ “Good Morning America” interview beneath.
