Miley Cyrus has thought about how getting clean has changed her “entire life.”
After surgery on her vocal cords in late 2019, the singer of “Wrecking Ball” said she had quit drinking and smoking.
As Zane Lowe of Apple Music 1 asked Miley about it on Wednesday, she talked about how giving up drugs helped her make her hit record Endless Summer Vacation in 2023.
“I’ve learned this about myself over the years,” she said. “I can’t believe you’re sober. My God.” I can’t live without it. It’s changed my whole life, I mean it.”
Miley then said that she had a slip-up in her sobriety around the time that her seventh studio record, Plastic Hearts, came out in November 2020.
“I know I needed to fall one more time,” the 32-year-old said. “I had to do it.” Things would never have gone this way. I would not have been sitting here at all. In that part, there were times… I’m not happy with them. Not my best times, some of my best work, or any of those things. But it all led me to write Flowers, which was like a key to the door of all mending.
Around that time, Miley talked about how “healing” it was to work on her 2023 single Flowers and win Record of the Year at the 2024 Grammy Awards for the hit song.
I believe that deep down, maybe because of my pride or the amount of time I put into it, I needed to hold a prize and feel for a moment that I have something that makes me feel like I’ve really accomplished something. So, that’s why she went to the Grammys: “it was actually to heal,” she said, adding that she was glad she went even though she was hesitant at first. “I was avoiding this in some way, even though it did matter to me in some way.” So, after I won my Grammy, I told everyone, “Look, if you Google me, it says Miley Cyrus, a Grammy Award-winning artist.””
Something Beautiful, Miley’s new record, will be out on May 30.
