Miley Cyrus Says Her Divorce From Liam Hemsworth Came From ‘A Place of Love’
Miley Cyrus has clearly been having a good time revisiting some of the peak moments of her long career in the ongoing TikTok video series “Used to Be Young.” She’s reminisced about not making a dime on her Bangerz tour, the real story behind the “stripper pole” during her 2009 Teen Choice performance and recalled how Beyoncé and Rihanna treated her like a “little sister” the year before.
But in the latest clip posted on Wednesday morning (Sept. 6), Miley said she wanted to get serious for a moment while discussing the dissolution of her marriage to actor Liam Hemsworth. She revealed that around the time she was getting ready to headline England’s Glastonbury Festival in June 2019, the decision had been made that “me and Liam’s commitment to being married, just really… came from of course a place of love first because we’d been together for 10 years,” she said in part 37 of the series.
But, Cyrus added, it also came from a place of “trauma and just trying to rebuild as quickly as we could.” Cyrus said the day of the show was the same day she decided that “it was no longer going to work in my life,” in reference to the couple’s marriage.
“That was another moment when the work, the performance, the character came first,” she added, noting that since that time she’s dedicated herself to not prioritizing those professional things over the personal. “The human comes first,” she said.
Cyrus, 30, and Hemsworth, 33, met while filming her movie The Last Song in 2010 and got married in 2018, the split in August 2019 after less than one year as man and wife. In a “Used to Be Young” video posted last week, she reacted to a photo in which she was kissing Hemsworth, which sparked memories about the origins of their love.
“I think one of the elements that made that movie feel so special was it was watching two very young people fall in love with each other, which was happening in real time and real life,” she said. “So, the chemistry was undeniable and that was the beginning of a long, 10-year relationship.”
Watch Cyrus talk about her divorce below.
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