Miley Cyrus is finally owning up to the personal wreckage left behind by her raunchy 2013 reinvention, and it's a doozy.
In a bombshell new interview on Monica Lewinsky's "Reclaiming" podcast, the 32-year-old "Flowers" singer confessed that her over-the-top sexualized public persona, think naked Wrecking Ball videos, tongue-wagging VMA performances, and skin-baring everything made her utterly undateable in the eyes of most men.
"If I kept dressing or acting a certain way, my relationships fell apart," Cyrus admitted, according to the episode that dropped last month. "No one wanted to date me because they didn't want to be with a woman whose sexual expression was shared with the world."
The former Disney darling, who skyrocketed to infamy during her Bangerz promotion with twerking, penis-shaped cakes, and enough bare skin to make even the most liberal suitors blush, said the choices she made professionally came at a devastating cost to her private life.
"I lost everything during that time in my personal life because of the choices I was making professionally," she told Lewinsky, drawing a wild parallel to the former White House intern's own scandals: "My 2013 is your 1998."Cyrus, who was dating Liam Hemsworth on and off during the height of the madness, revealed the toll wasn't just on her romances. Her siblings reportedly skipped school to dodge the taunts from classmates over their big sister's X-rated antics.
The "We Can't Stop" star has spent the better part of the last decade trying to distance herself from that phase, pivoting to more mature (and clothed) fare while scoring hits like the divorce anthem "Flowers." But the damage to her dating pool, she now claims, was real.
Social media erupted with the predictable mix of "told you so" reactions and eye-rolls after clips of the interview spread like wildfire. One X user quipped it was "a decade of Wrecking Ball energy" catching up with her.
Cyrus has been refreshingly candid lately about her past excesses, including hiding drug purchases and leaking blood onstage. But this latest revelation lands as a rare moment of self-reflection from the once-defiant boundary-pusher who famously declared she "came in like a wrecking ball."
Whether it's genuine growth or just another rebrand remains to be seen, but at least she's admitting what millions already suspected: Actions have consequences, even for multimillionaire pop stars.
