It took all of us by surprise when Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth’s marriage and decade-long relationship ended, and fans watched as the mess unfolded. Immediately after their decision to separate Hemsworth went back to his home land, Australia, to be with family and Cyrus however took a less holistic move, having jumped into another commitment to long time friend, Australian musician Cody Simpson.
Time does heal all wounds, it’s been a year since, Hemsworth is now happily in love with his new girlfriend, Gabriella Brooks, and Cyrus has finally released her most bare it all album Plastic Heart.
In a recent interview on the Howard Stern show, Cyrus opens up about her former relationship and the reason she and Hemsworth decided to tie the knot in 2018, saying that if it wasn’t for losing their home in the Malibu fires, they most probably never would have gotten married!
“We were together since 16,” Cyrus said. “Our house burned down. We had been like, engaged—I don’t know if we really ever thought we were actually going to get married, but when we lost our house in Malibu—which if you listen to my voice pre- and post-fire, they’re very different so that trauma really affected my voice. And I was actually in South Africa, so I couldn’t come home, and like, my animals were tied to a post at the beach. I lost everything. I had polaroids of Elvis, like front row, passed on from—I got a couple grandmas to give me their Elvis polaroids. I always became friends with my friends’ grandmas so I could get the goods from the artists I love.”
“I had so much and it was all gone, every song I had ever written was in that house,” she continued. “Every photograph of me that my parents had given to me, all my scripts, I lost everything. And so in trying to put that back together, instead of going, ‘Oh, nature kind of did something I couldn’t do for myself; it forced me to let go,’ I ran toward the fire. Which is not abnormal, a lot of animals do this and end up dying, like deers run into the forest. You’re attracted to that heat and me being an intense person and not wanting to sit with it, and not wanting to go, you know, ‘What could be purposeful about this?’ I just clung to what I had left of that house, which was me and him. And I really do and did love him very, very, very much and still do, always will.”
As to why they ended their long time commitment, it boils down to “There was too much conflict, when I come home, I want to be anchored by someone. I don’t get off on drama or fighting.”
Preach sister!