It's been nearly eight years since the final episode of Hannah Montana graced our televisions, and in a new interview with Elle, Miley Cyrus shared the moment she knew she wanted to leave the Disney Channel show. Since the series wrapped in , Miley has talked extensively about her time on the show ; although she's now "proud" of the work she accomplished, she knew at age 18 that her time as Hannah Montana was coming to an end. Speaking with Elle for their August cover story, the singer said "the minute" she had sex, she realized she had grown beyond the series. It got weird. It just felt like I was grown up.
Miley Cyrus couldn't play Hannah Montana after having sex
Miley Cyrus couldn't play Hannah Montana after having sex
Miley Cyrus recently reflected on her former life as Hannah Montana, the Disney Channel role that shot her to stardom at age 12, in a cover story for Elle magazine. Now 26, the "She Is Coming" singer said she wanted to break out of the role when she turned 18 because "it felt ridiculous. It got weird," she told the magazine. The fourth and final season of "Hannah Montana" aired in , the same year Cyrus turned Disney Channel. And I was like, 'That's me.
Miley Cyrus said she began to feel 'ridiculous' playing Hannah Montana as soon as she had sex
Miley Cyrus wants to read me something she wrote. At some point it became her office, but she and Liam Hemsworth moved back in after their Malibu home burned down in the Woolsey fire last November the couple married a month later at her Tennessee farmhouse. On the walls are framed portraits of Elvis and Dolly Parton. Two of her dogs snuggle on the couch between us as Cyrus rests her notebook on her lap, clears her throat, and begins.
The singer and actress can credit the show for launching her superstar career, but playing a child star didn't feel the same by the time she hit her late teens. I grew up. Cyrus likened her transformation to an image of an actor playing Peter Pan smoking backstage at Disneyland which she actually did see. In , Cyrus made headlines when footage surfaced showing her taking a bong hit of salvia at a party. The "scandal" broke in the middle of Hannah Montana 's final season, and Cyrus had not yet fully shed her innocent Disney image.