Miley Cyrus is opening up about how her public persona has affected her love life over time, usually at nice value.
The “Flowers” singer stated {that a} notably provocative interval of her life, when she was making the 2013 album “Bangerz,” brought about her relationship together with her then-fiance, Liam Hemsworth, to derail.
“When me and Liam split up the first time with ‘Bangerz,’ it was because it was like, I was this provocateur and it was highly sexualized,” Cyrus stated throughout a candid sit-down with the “Every Single Album” podcast final week.
She then contrasted that picture with the one she tried to domesticate throughout her 2017 album “Younger Now,” when she and Hemsworth have been again collectively.
“And so, for ‘Younger Now’ ― the album ― the reason I kind of like played into this innocence was because I think that was a way to keep and a way to stay [innocent],” she stated.
Cyrus described her prepare of thought as, “‘If I’m younger now, if I’m less awake as this sexual woman publicly, then this is going to be the way that I can keep a happy home.’”
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However with “Younger Now,” she stated, she “didn’t know how to fully do it because I was also balancing the sobriety thing because I wasn’t getting fully sober yet.”
“And so I was like, well, ‘I’m safe and I’m clean and I’m wearing all white and I’m singing songs about nature,’” she stated, explaining that she was “just trying to find a persona that could keep my personal life intact.”
It was troublesome, Cyrus stated, since she’s “super open” and in addition has “to be careful about not telling other people’s stuff because I, you know, I kind of say everything.”
“Respectfully, Liam was also a part of other big franchises like ‘The Hunger Games,’ and his brother is a Marvel superhero. And so I was also representing the family,” she stated.
“My plan was this time, I didn’t want the relationship to fall apart. I wanted it to stay intact,” Cyrus shared. “And the reason why it didn’t work during ‘Bangerz’ was because of that.”
Cyrus and Hemsworth first met on the set of the 2010 film “The Last Song.” They obtained engaged in 2012, when Cyrus was solely 19 and Hemsworth was 22.
They known as off their engagement in 2013 earlier than getting again collectively in 2016. The identical 12 months, the couple introduced their second engagement.
Hemsworth and Cyrus finally made it to the altar in December 2018, however introduced their separation a couple of months later. The 2 have been formally divorced by August 2019.
