Miley Cyrus is sharing her journey to sobriety.
Last November, Miley underwent a vocal chord surgery. Fans will remember that it was around that time Miley had shared that she wasn’t allowed to talk for four weeks.
“My doctor looked at my vocal cords, and he said, ‘No one shy ever has to get this surgery. This is from overuse of the vocal cords,'” Miley told Variety‘s Big Ticket podcast in a recent appearance. “It’s no surprise that I would have this. I’ve been touring since I was 12 years old, but it’s not even the touring that’s the hard part. It’s you end up staying up late and meet-and-greets and things like that. And obviously I just talk a s–t ton.
But what started as something she needed to do (to prepare for the surgery) turned into something she embraced.
Miley shared that she’s been reflecting on her family’s history in therapy, which led her to see the initial push toward sobriety as “the biggest blessing.”
“I’d been thinking a lot about my mother. My mom was adopted, and so a lot of the feelings that she had and inheriting some of that, kind of an abandonment feeling and a feeling of wanting to prove that you’re wanted and valuable. [My dad’s] parents divorced when he was three, and so my dad kind of raised himself,” she said, referring to her parents, Tish and Billy Ray Cyrus. “I did a lot of family history, which has a lot of kind of addiction and kind of mental health challenges.”
And she came into this realization: “So just going through that and saying, ‘Why am I the way that I am?’ By understanding the past, we understand the present and the future much more clearly. So I think therapy is great.”
Miley’s totally okay with staying sober – but knows there are challenges to staying the course. And, for her, the perks more than outweigh the cons.
“There’s that stigma of ‘you’re no fun.’ It’s like, ‘Honey, you can call me a lot of things, but I know that I’m fun,'” she said. “The thing that I love about it is waking up 100 percent, 100 percent of the time.”
“There are a lot of challenges when you wake up. We’re being asked to be this active, and this focused, and this on, and we’re going to be making these big changes we want to see,” she continued. “I don’t want to wake up feeling groggy. I want to wake up feeling ready.”
