Miley Cyrus is rewriting a painful chapter of her life into something beautiful.
The singer opened up about one of the hardest moments in her life during a Q&A after a screening of her visual album, “Something Beautiful.”
According to People magazine, a fan asked Cyrus about the advice she would give to her younger self, and the former “Hannah Montana” had a lot to say.
“When my house burned down, that was the biggest blessing I’ve ever had in my life, actually,” Cyrus said, according to the outlet.
“Losing everything and being able to rebuild, and to be able to be purposeful and choose every piece that I’m gonna collect or also just about the people in my life,” she shared. “And I guess for me, when my house burned down, a lot of my relationships also burned down, and that again just led me to such magic and to have so much gratitude.”
“I think what I would have told my younger self is to appreciate those darker times because, like I said, they are only leading you into the light,” Cyrus added.
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The 32-year-old lost her Malibu house in a fire in November 2018, when she was still married to her then-fiancé, Liam Hemsworth. At the time, she said she was “completely devastated” by the loss.
“I am one of the lucky ones. My animals and LOVE OF MY LIFE made it out safely & that’s all that matters right now,” Cyrus said in a message on Instagram after the fires. Cyrus would go on to marry Hemsworth in December, one month after losing her house.
In August 2019, the two had announced their separation, and Hemsworth had filed for divorce. Their divorce was finalized in January 2020.
Cyrus has previously revealed that her house burning down influenced her decision to wed Hemsworth. “We were together since 16,” the singer said during an appearance on Howard Stern’s SiriusXM radio show in 2020.
“I don’t know if we really ever thought we were actually going to get married, but when we lost our house in Malibu — which if you listen to my voice pre- and post-fire, they’re very different so that trauma really affected my voice,” she said before talking about all she’d lost in the fire.
“I just clung to what I had left of that house, which was me and him,” she continued. “And I really do and did love him very, very, very much and still do, always will.”
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