Miley Cyrus Gets Emotional During Disney Legends Ceremony Honor
10. Following the conclusion of the series in 2011—alongside the 2009 movie release Hannah Montana: The Movie—Miley confessed to struggling to discover her true identity.
“Some of my audience was so attached to a character, which wasn’t me,” she disclosed to Howard Stern in 2020. “So, then that does a lot of psychological stuff, where it’s like, ‘Am I valuable as myself?’ Okay, the entire premise of the show was that when I looked like my normal self, no one cared about me. But when I dressed up and put on a wig, suddenly, I was being pursued by fans following my tour bus. It’s a lot to burden a child with—to be told, ‘When you’re yourself, no one cares.’ But when they transform you into someone you’re not, especially when you’re young, and it involves a lot of makeup, wigs, and other things, it has a psychological impact.”
11. Miley experienced love at first sight when she encountered her first boyfriend Nick Jonas at a charity event in 2006, while they were both 13 years old. “We instantly became a couple the day we met,” Miley shared with Seventeen in 2008. “He was determined to meet me, and he said, ‘I find you beautiful and I really like you.’ And I responded, ‘Oh, my goodness, I like you so much.'”
After dating in secret, the pair eventually broke up and Miley confessed to crying for a month straight after their separation. “Nick and I had strong feelings for each other,” she admitted to the magazine. “We still do, but we were in love at that time. For two years, he was essentially my everything. However, it was challenging to hide it from everyone. We quarreled frequently, and it wasn’t enjoyable.”
12. Her romance with Nick served as inspiration for her breakup anthem “7 Things,” with Miley even sporting the necklace he gifted her in the music video for the popular 2008 song. The couple briefly reunited in 2009, leading to the creation of The Jonas Brothers ballad “Before the Storm,” which featured Miley.