“I’ve been sober sober for the past six months,” Miley Cyrus said while talking with Marc Malkin on the June 23 episode of Variety’s The Big Ticket podcast.
Though Miley, 26, once proudly declared she “smokes pot” during the closing moments of the 2015 VMAs, these days, she’s staying clean – and she credits this lifestyle change to both the vocal surgery she underwent in November 2019 and a deeper look at her parents’ past traumas. “At the beginning, it was just about this vocal surgery,” Miley said on The Big Ticket. “But I had been thinking a lot about my mother [Tish Cyrus].
My mom was adopted, and I inherited some of the feelings she had, the abandonment feelings and wanting to prove that you’re wanted and valuable.