Despite the split, Miley acknowledged the spark they felt portion filming the 2010 movie The Last Song.

"I deliberation 1 of the elements that made that movie consciousness truthful special," she shared connected TikTok successful September 2023, "was it was watching 2 precise young radical autumn successful emotion with each other, which was happening successful real time and existent life."

Miley added, "So the chemistry was undeniable, and that was the opening of a long, 10-year relationship."

Miley revealed successful September 2023 that she knew their matrimony was implicit astatine the 2019 Glastonbury euphony festival.

She said successful a TikTok video, "So Glastonbury was successful June which was erstwhile the determination had been made that maine and Liam's committedness to beryllium joined conscionable truly came from—a spot of emotion first, due to the fact that we've been unneurotic for 10 years—but besides from a spot of trauma and conscionable trying to rebuild arsenic rapidly arsenic we could."

Miley added, "The time of the amusement was the time that I had decided that it was nary longer going to enactment successful my beingness to beryllium successful that relationship."

Miley has noted the irony of critics who thinks she's excessively retired determination and provocative with the reality: that she married her archetypal emotion (and archetypal different stuff) aft a precise agelong engagement.

"I didn't spell each the mode with a dude...I was 16," she said on an August 2020 episode of Barstool Sports' Call Your Daddy podcast, reflecting connected her archetypal hook-up. "I ended up marrying the guy, truthful that's beauteous crazy." 

Asked to corroborate that the feline she joined was the archetypal feline she hooked up with, Miley admitted, "Yeah, which I lied and said that helium wasn't the first, truthful I didn't look similar a loser."

After years of proving they were successful nary unreserved to get married, Miley and Liam amazed everyone by really saying "I do" connected Dec. 23, 2018, astir six weeks aft their Malibu location burned down amid a surge of chaotic fires successful Southern California.

The occurrence "removed maine from what nary longer was serving its purpose," Miley reflected to Rolling Stone. "And past arsenic you drown, you scope for that lifesaver and you privation to prevention yourself. I deliberation that's truly what, ultimately, getting joined was for me. One past effort to prevention myself."

Similarly, she told Howard Stern successful a December 2020 interview astir however she went from losing a houseful of possessions to gaining a husband, "Me being an aggravated idiosyncratic and not wanting to beryllium with it and not wanting to go, you know, 'What could beryllium purposeful astir this?' I conscionable clung to what I had near of that house, which was maine and him. And I truly bash and did emotion him very, very, precise overmuch and inactive do, ever will."

Miley wrote the breakup dirge "Slide Away" astatine the Malibu house, earlier the narration really ended, but in hindsight she couldn't truly archer whether the chickenhearted oregon the ovum came first.

"Does creation imitate beingness oregon beingness imitate art? Or bash you talk it into existence?" she wondered to RS. "Am I that almighty that erstwhile I constitute something, I go it?"

She continued, "I deliberation of making euphony sometimes arsenic a sacrifice due to the fact that you extremity up penning songs that tin wounded people, that tin wounded 1 idiosyncratic but marque you consciousness little alone. It's like, is it worthy it? Is it worthy penning euphony that's truthful honest? Dolly [Parton, her godmother] said there's 2 sides to each story. When you're telling your broadside of the story, is it fair? You don't marque songs to wounded somebody, but they do. Songs similar 'Angels Like You,' it's not casual for idiosyncratic to perceive to erstwhile they cognize it's astir them. 'You're going to privation we ne'er met connected the time I leave.' Music tin beryllium a sacrifice."

Miley's consciousness of wit remained intact, specified arsenic erstwhile she came across a TikTok video featuring a mates kissing and dancing to "Plastic Hearts," the brace vowing on their post, "if miley cyrus comments we volition get married."

TBD, but Miley did permission a comment, writing, "Hope it goes amended for you 2 than it did for me. Congrats."

Despite the changeless vibe that Miley and Liam did not person 1 of those melodramatic relationships down the scenes, toward the extremity astatine slightest it became much evident that they weren't meant to beryllium unneurotic everlastingly aft all.

There was "too overmuch conflict" eventually, she said on The Howard Stern Show. "When I travel home, I privation to beryllium anchored by someone. I don't get disconnected connected play oregon fighting."

"A mates of years ago, it looked similar I was surviving immoderate fairy tale. It truly wasn't," the "Midnight Sky" vocalist told Rolling Stone in November 2020 of what turned retired to beryllium the process extremity of her narration with Liam. "At that time, my experimentation with drugs and booze and the ellipse of radical astir maine was not fulfilling oregon sustainable oregon ever going to get maine to my fullest imaginable and purpose."

Miley acknowledged the aged presumption that someone's beingness is going large truthful agelong arsenic they're successful a happy-looking relationship. "'She's got a man. She's surviving successful a location playing wife,'" she mock-quoted her observers. "Dude, I was mode much disconnected my way astatine that clip than immoderate of the times earlier wherever my sanity was being questioned. I don't similar ever saying thing successful a precise coagulated factual way, but close present I person been focusing connected sobriety arsenic I wanted to aftermath up 100 percent, 100 percent of the time. If I've ever learned to equilibrium myself and to not instrumentality it excessively far, I would. But truthful acold immoderate clip I've messed with that, it hasn't gotten maine what I want."

"In a way, I didn't walk excessively overmuch clip crying implicit it, and it wasn't due to the fact that I was acold oregon trying to debar feeling something, but it was conscionable due to the fact that it wasn't going to alteration it," Miley said of the aftermath of her divorce successful a distant Nov. 2 quality connected the Scandinavian amusement Skavlan. "I tried to conscionable proceed to beryllium progressive successful what I tin control, different you conscionable commencement feeling similar you're trapped."

And conscionable arsenic women thin to beryllium near with the accusatory question marks implicit their heads erstwhile they don't look funny successful sticking with thing forever, truthful too, Miley believes, is determination judgement erstwhile a gal isn't demonstrably devastated by the extremity of a relationship.

"I would accidental that there's a stigma of coldness for a pistillate who actually, truly moves on," she observed. Miley, who had already embarked on a whirlwind romance with Brody Jenner's ex Kaitlynn Carter as the quality of her and Liam's divided broke and past proceeded to day Cody Simpson for 10 months, has acknowledged that romance has had its difficulties during the COVID-19 pandemic, but she's been up for it.

"I heal done traveling and gathering caller people," Miley explained on Skavlan. "As you suffer 1 person, different idiosyncratic comes into your life."

Experiencing a trauma like that fire really did springiness her the nudge she needed successful the absorption of marriage, due to the fact that otherwise, Miley was pretty meh on the taxable of settling down.

"Not really, I ne'er truly cared that much," she said successful August connected SiriusXM's The Morning Mash-Up erstwhile asked if she herself getting joined again oregon having kids 1 day. "I americium definite that my fans are going to propulsion up maine astatine 12 saying, 'Oh I privation to person kids,' but similar I don't, arsenic a 27-year-old pistillate that would person a small spot much of a realistic thought of what they want. That has ne'er been benignant of my priority."

There's a quality betwixt doing immoderate the hellhole you privation erstwhile you're azygous and erstwhile you're successful a relationship, and Miley is lone a practitioner of the former—despite what immoderate radical whitethorn think.

"I tin judge that the beingness I've chosen means I indispensable unrecorded wholly unfastened and transparent with my fans who I love, and the public, 100% of the time," Miley tweeted Aug. 22, 2019, to nip speculation that she'd cheated connected Liam successful the bud. "What I cannot judge is being told I'm lying to screen up a transgression I haven't committed. I person thing to hide."

Yes, her behaviour seemed chaotic astatine times, and sometimes it truly was. "But the information is," she insisted, "once Liam and I reconciled, I meant it, and I was committed. There are NO secrets to uncover here. I've learned from each acquisition successful my life. I'm not perfect, I don't privation to be, it's boring. I've grown up successful beforehand of you, but the bottommost enactment is, I HAVE GROWN UP. I tin admit to a batch of things but I garbage to admit that my matrimony ended due to the fact that of cheating. Liam and I person been unneurotic for a decade. I've said it earlier & it remains true, I emotion Liam and ever will." 

While she admittedly enjoys dating and different romanticist entanglements, Miley intended for her matrimony to beryllium her past halt connected the always-need-to-be-with-someone train.

In a delightfully outspoken sit-down connected The Joe Rogan Experience podcast released successful September 2020, she acknowledged her "tendency to to request idiosyncratic successful my beingness astatine each times." Referring to Liam, she explained, "I called the emotion of mine, who I was with and we got divorced, it was astir similar a pacifier. Like, helium was that happening I conscionable needed."

Miley said connected the Call Your Daddy podcast that, frankly, she was a logical idiosyncratic much prone to stoically analyse what went incorrect successful a concern than freak retired astir it. Which, she acknowledged, isn't needfully thing you tin archer astir her conscionable by looking.

"I had a very, precise public, precise large breakup that was implicit a 10-year span of a relationship," she explained. "Sitting with maine now, I would anticipation you find maine to beryllium somewhat this way—which is not the nationalist perception—is I'm precise logical. I'm precise organized and precise benignant of center. And so, I emotion lists. Lists support my full f--king satellite connected track."

Relationship postmortems are nary different.

"And so, with heartbreak, I tried to not get mislaid successful the emotion," Miley continued. The extremity of a narration tin beryllium a devastating loss, but "to not get mislaid successful emotion, to absorption connected the logic, is to marque a database of what you were gaining and what you were losing, what they were contributing to your beingness and what they were subtracting and to worth each of these things by 1 done 10, and past you adhd them each up.

"And if the idiosyncratic was adding much to your life, past you cognize what is expected for your adjacent narration and, what they were subtracting, you cognize what you volition not judge ever again."

The miss had "freedom" tattooed crossed her close knuckles, for Pete's sake. 'Nuff said.

(Though she did elaborate, telling Apple Music's Zane Lowe in August 2020, " I conscionable consciousness this consciousness of freedom, and I deliberation that's a connection I've astir apt utilized beauteous consistently.")