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Noah Cyrus Opens Up About "Dark" Xanax Addiction
Noah Cyrus' household has her back.
This past summer, the singer, sister of popular star Miley Cyrus, revealed she has been recovering from addictions to medicine pills since past 2020. The 22-year-old channeled her idiosyncratic struggles in her new debut workplace album, The Hardest Part, which includes the precocious released single, "Noah (stand Still)," featuring her begetter Billy Ray Cyrus.
The song contains lyrics specified arsenic "When I turned 20, I was flooded / With the thought that I mightiness not crook 21" and "Six months sober / But thing overmuch has changed / Life's not implicit but I'm feeling doubly the symptom / I'm not amended but I'm not rather the same."
"Noah (Stand Still)" was written during Noah's aboriginal betterment from Xanax addiction, pursuing a sojourn to her dad's location successful Nashville, Columbia Records said successful a statement. "As the satellite felt similar it was crashing successful connected her, Billy Ray reminded Noah to consciousness the world nether her feet, get grounded with nature, and simply basal still."
The label continued, "That infinitesimal and those words of contented from her begetter were truthful life-changing for Noah, that she had it tattooed connected her limb and wrote what became the opening way to her stellar debut medium The Hardest Part."
Noah recalled her conflict with addiction successful a statement. "Soon aft I started having each this euphony occurrence I was introduced to downers, which gradually took implicit my beingness the adjacent mates of years," she said. "By 2020 I was astatine my lowest low—I was suicidal and successful an unhealthy co-dependent relationship. I was choosing drugs implicit my family, my friendships, myself—everything. And erstwhile the pandemic hit, it gave maine an excuse to further isolate myself. Anxiety and slump afloat consumed me."
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She noted that she "finally had a infinitesimal of clarity" aft the decease of her grandmother, mom—Tish Cyrus' mother, Loretta Finley—in 2020. "When she died, I wanted to beryllium determination for my mom, but was truthful emotionally and physically gone. I felt an tremendous magnitude of guilt and the full concern made maine re-assess a batch of my decisions the past fewer years."
Noah added, "Around the aforesaid time, I got retired of my toxic relationship."
She reflected connected that narration successful the May azygous "Mr. Percocet," which she revealed on Twitter was inspired by her "really turbulent and confusing" romance with a spouse who "also struggled with substance abuse."
The "July" vocalist said that aft their breakup, she "weighed retired my options—life oregon death."
She added, "I wanted to find intent and hope. So, I chose life. I called everyone I needed to and asked for help. I did the enactment to get disconnected the pills. December 15, 2022 volition beryllium my 2nd twelvemonth anniversary."
The singer, who plans to embark connected a circuit starting Oct. 4, concluded her connection connected a hopeful note, sharing, "I'm experiencing happiness and joyousness for the archetypal clip since I was a small kid."
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