DESPITE being one of the most famous singers in the world, and her Grammy-winning single Flowers shattering records around the world, Miley Cyrus says she can’t stand the vapid world of celebrity.
And the popstar often dreams of turning her back on showbiz altogether.
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Speaking frankly in her most candid chat in years, Miley said: “I’m not very active or very a part of my community of other artists and celebrities. It just doesn’t feel like my people but there’s some artists like Beyonce . . . We have known each other for a long time.
“When I was 15, I performed with her and Rihanna, these big beautiful women and I still had braces on the back of my teeth. Beyonce was so kind to me then. From seeing her then I have created an in-depth friendship and that kindness has not changed.”
Miley, who has sold 55million singles and 20million albums worldwide, says she dreams of being able to go back to living her life incognito, just like her character Hannah Montana in the Disney series that made her famous.
Instead, she finds herself constantly causing commotion as fans clamour for selfies.
On David Letterman’s Netflix series My Next Guest Needs No Introduction, she explained: “My perfect life would be the synopsis of my TV show, it would be normal by day and a superstar by night.
“One of my wishes is to travel the world anonymously. To be able to walk down and experience cities that I have been to, but on tour. To be exactly who I am right now but to travel anonymously.”
It’s been a decade since Miley’s last world tour of her record Bangerz and despite fans begging for her to hit the road once more, she insists she has zero desire to do so.
Miley said: “I’ve toured, I’ve performed, I’ve been in stadiums my entire life, being isolated.
‘Boredom is torture’
“Even as a baby, dad would bring me up and hold me up over the crowd.
“But shortly after lockdown, I performed in Mexico for 130,000 and it gave me a lot of anxiety.”
She added of life on the road: “Usually I am in a locker room. And they tell you to wear flip flops in the showers or you will get fungus foot.
“Boredom is like torture for me. I wouldn’t want to commit to four years of intimate shows, just in case I get bored.
“Sometimes after doing it for two and a half years, maybe you don’t like it as much.”
Over the past year rumours have been rife that the Cyrus family has been torn apart over her parents’ messy split.
She fell out with her dad Billy Ray prior to his wedding last year to singer Firerose, although yesterday it was revealed that he had filed for divorce.
Asked if her dad was her hero, Miley replied: “I mean honestly my mum is my hero and my father, I am grateful for his genes, his hair, and he has a relationship and a foot on the ground to the real, even when he was famous.
“I am grateful to be able to watch him ahead of me. But really Mum raised me.”