Miley Cyrus Tried to Keep a ‘Happy Home’ With Liam Hemsworth by Changing Her Image

On Thursday, Miley Cyrus made a revealing and rare comment on her former relationship with her ex-husband, Liam Hemsworth, while discussing her music career on the Every Single Album podcast. During the interview, Cyrus first mentioned Hemsworth in relation to their film The Last Song, which filmed in 2009.

“That’s where I met Liam, who I would go on to marry and write a ton of—or, most of—my songs about,” Cyrus said, adding, “Talk about catching strays,” in reference to how her songs have referred to their relationship in both positive and negative ways.

While talking about her “Younger Now” era, Cyrus brought up her relationship to Hemsworth again and how she embraced “innocence” in her image as a way to reconnect with him in her personal life.

“When me and Liam split up the first time with ‘Bangerz’ because I was this provocateur, like, highly sexualized,” she shared. “For ‘Younger Now’, the reason I kind of played into this innocence was because I think it was a way to keep—a way to stay—by being younger now and a less sexualized woman publicly, and this was a way to keep a happy home.”

Cyrus and Hemsworth were off-and-on from 2010 to 2012, then got married in 2018. But they split up before finishing one year of marriage. Hemsworth went on to date model Gabriella Brooks, while Cyrus is currently seeing singer Maxx Morando.

During the podcast, Cyrus also briefly discussed her ex-boyfriend Nick Jonas, saying when they split up in 2009, she saw the singer as a “dick” and “asshole” who “dumped” her.

“He’s still catching strays,” she joked.

But she added that things were all good now, saying, “I like Nick… I’m into him.. he’s like married with children, we’re all moving on. NILEY for life!”