Miley Cyrus Reflects on Early Controversies and Being First Person to ‘Ever Be Canceled’

Miley Cyrus is looking backmost connected immoderate of the controversies that marked her aboriginal career.

In a teaser for an upcoming interrogation connected CBS Sunday Morning, airing Oct. 5, the 32-year-old popular prima responded to a question from big Tracy Smith astir the backlash she faced from aggravated moms during her modulation from Hannah Montana to a much provocative euphony career.

“I was the archetypal idiosyncratic to possibly ever beryllium canceled, I guess,” Cyrus says successful the clip, shared connected CBS Sunday Morning’s Instagram. “I didn’t cognize until I was older, actually, however brutal it truly was.”

Cyrus archetypal roseate to fame arsenic the prima of Disney Channel’s Hannah Montana, which debuted successful March 2006 to a record-breaking 5.4 cardinal viewers — the highest successful the network’s past astatine that time. She was conscionable 13 years aged erstwhile she played Miley Stewart, a teen starring a concealed treble beingness arsenic a Malibu pupil by time and a planetary popular prima by night. The amusement ran until 2011.

After her occurrence connected the show, Cyrus made a bold translation with a much edgy and provocative image, releasing albums similar 2010’s Can’t Be Tamed and 2013’s Bangerz, the second debuting astatine No. 1 connected the Billboard 200.

Despite the backlash, the “Flowers” vocalist said she enjoyed the experience, adjacent amid the criticism.

“It was precise challenging for different people, but for maine it was a bully time,” Cyrus says successful the teaser. “It looked amusive and it was fun. It wasn’t until I was older that I realized however harsh…”

She added, “I would ne'er now, being wherever I am, ever look astatine idiosyncratic successful their 20s from the presumption of who I americium now,” she said. “But astatine the time, it was awesome.”

While Cyrus reflected connected her acquisition arsenic an aboriginal fig successful cancel culture, galore of the post’s commenters pointed retired that different pistillate popular stars faced akin oregon adjacent harsher backlash earlier her.

“I emotion you Miley forever, but we each cognize MADONNA was the archetypal and astir cancelled idiosyncratic ever successful the euphony industry,” 1 idiosyncratic wrote. Another said, “Britney Spears would decidedly disagree.” A 3rd noted, “First idiosyncratic .. what astir Christina Aguilera’s contention with her opus Dirty ? She received truthful overmuch backlash.”

Cyrus is besides expected to sermon her travel to sobriety, her family, and her ninth workplace album, Something Beautiful, during the upcoming CBS Sunday Morning interview. The occurrence volition besides diagnostic an interrogation with vocalist Cat Stevens (now Yusuf), who volition speech astir his caller autobiography, Cat On The Road To Findout.

This isn’t the archetypal clip Cyrus has opened up astir her turbulent past. Earlier this year, she spoke candidly astir the Bangerz e...