Miley Cyrus got quite candid about her marriage to Liam Hemsworth during her headlining set at Lollapalooza Brazil over the weekend, Billboard reports.
After helping a fan propose to his boyfriend onstage, Miley congratulated the newly engaged couple before speaking from her own experience. “Yasss!” she shrieked after the accepted proposal, adding, “Forever bitch, yasss! Congratulations! Honey, I hope your marriage goes better than mine. Mine was a f*king disaster.”
Unless she has another marriage hidden from the public, Cyrus was referencing her divorce from Hemsworth after seven months . The two spent nearly a decade in an on-and-off relationship after meeting on the set of 2010’s The Last Song before deciding to tie the knot. In a 2020 interview on The Joe Rogan Experience podcast, Miley equated the feeling of going back to The Hunger Games actor to a relapse.
“Actually, [the one] I called the love of mine who I was with and we got divorced, it was almost like a pacifier,” she told Rogan. “It was that thing that I just needed. Not because we were in love anymore but because of the comfort and because my brain said ‘Oh, this feels better, this is comforting.’ But actually, knowing that I was giving in to an addiction made me feel way worse. I had the hangover. … It felt like a relapse every time I’d go back.”
It was quite the emotional roller coaster for Cyrus, who filled in for the Foo Fighters following the death of their drummer Taylor Hawkins late last month. Miley dedicated her Lollapalooza Brazil performance to Hawkins on Twitter and opened up about their friendship during her set.
Days before Hawkins’ death, Miley’s plane was forced to make an emergency landing after getting struck by lightning. Cyrus said the Foo Fighters drummer was the first person she called. “He was already at the festival and that would have been a time that I would have gotten to see my friend and I didn’t,” she said. “I would have done anything to hang out with him one more time.”
Cyrus went on to deliver a tearful performance of her song “Angels Like You” in honor of Hawkins.