Miley Cyrus is unpacking a decade’s worth of family drama and trauma and reveals how she mended all of her fences.
The 32-year-old star was born in the spotlight, the daughter of country music legend Billy Ray Cyrus and Tish Cyrus, who found fame herself at a young age as star of the Disney Channel series Hannah Montana.
She grew up to be a global pop star in her own right, though she revealed on Tuesday’s episode of Reclaiming with Monica Lewinsky, her road to fame was filled with family strife.
She teased the whole family went through a, ‘really difficult, dark decade’ but they were able to get through it.
Cyrus revealed on the podcast – which also featured the singer explaining what WAP is to the 51-year-old Lewinsky – that the family was able to mend their fences without therapy.
‘We’re so messy, we didn’t even do any of that,’ Cyrus joked of her family struggles, revealing the reason a therapist wasn’t involved.

Miley Cyrus is unpacking a decade’s worth of family drama and trauma and reveals how she mended all of her fences.

She grew up to be a global pop star in her own right, though she revealed on Tuesday’s episode of Reclaiming with Monica Lewinsky , her road to fame was filled with family strife

Cyrus revealed on the podcast – which also featured the singer explaining what WAP is to the 51-year-old Lewinsky – that the family was able to mend their fences without therapy
‘Just to get each other into a room to get to counseling would have been a war,’ Cyrus admitted.
She told Lewinsky that at one point of the ‘dark decade,’ half of her family members were not speaking to each other.
Cyrus admitted she, ‘had a lot of loyalty’ to her mother Tish, who split with father Billy Ray back in 2022 after nearly 30 years of marriage and sharing Miley, Braison, 31 and Noah, 25.
Before their official split and divorce that was finalized in 2023, Miley said that her parents were on-and-off, as she revealed how that affected her.
‘(I) watched what happens when you don’t clean things up as they’re happening,’ Miley admitted.
‘They really do stack. And then all of the sudden you go, “Oh my God, it’s been 10 years and this is a mess I barely even know how to start. This is emotional hoarding,”‘ she admitted.
Ultimately, the singer, ‘cleaned all that up,’ during a, ‘really important part of [her] year … putting those lines of communication back together.’
‘I just kind of busted through the pile that stacked and just [went], “I’m here, you’re here, let’s start by having a good time together and then as we start bringing some happiness and joy into each other’s life, then we’ll be in a better place to have these conversations,”‘ she admitted.

‘Just to get each other into a room to get to counseling would have been a war,’ Cyrus admitted

She told Lewinsky that at one point of the ‘dark decade,’ half of her family members were not speaking to each other

Before their official split and divorce that was finalized in 2023, Miley said that her parents were on-and-off, as she revealed how that affected her

Cyrus admitted she, ‘had a lot of loyalty’ to her mother Tish, who split with father Billy Ray back in 2022 after nearly 30 years of marriage and sharing Miley, Braison, 31 and Noah, 25
She also admitted it, ‘was easier to (wave) a white flag’ than go through counseling with someone else.
The singer added she likes others to decide they, ‘like the way she’s functioning’ and attempt to ‘mimic’ it.
She will be addressing the family drama more directly on her forthcoming album, teasing that a song called Secrets.
Cyrus said the song is about her wanting her dad, ‘to feel safe enough to tell [her] the things that were damning and damaging to the family.’