Miley Cyrus is opening up about her previous drug use, including how she managed to hide her drug purchases from her accountant.
“The drugs were the biggest cost, which to hide those from my accountant we called them ‘vintage clothes,’” Cyrus, 32, said on the Friday, June 6, episode of The Ringer’s “Every Single Album” podcast while discussing the money she made from her 2015 album, Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz.
“And so she would get these checks. That happens on touring all the time,” she continued, admitting that after a while her accountant would wonder about the so-called “vintage clothes” she said she was purchasing.
“Every time she saw me, she’d be like, ‘Where’s that, like, $15,000 original John Lennon t-shirt that you bought?’ It’s like, ‘Oh, it’s upstairs,’” she recalled. “‘We just really want to protect it. It’s really delicate. The fabric — got to take care of it.’ So, I bought a lot of ‘vintage clothes’ that year.”
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The “Flowers” singer went on to admit that she is grateful for “surviving” that period of her life.
“I’m so glad I survived that time in my life,” she said. “I would definitely not encourage anyone else to go this hard, but the fact that I got through it, I’m very glad I got to do it.”
This is not the first time Cyrus has discussed her previous drug use and path to sobriety. In a 2017 interview with Billboard, she opened up about her decision to no longer use marijuana and to abstain from alcohol.
“I haven’t smoked weed in three weeks, which is the longest I’ve ever [gone without it],” she told the publication at the time. “I’m not doing drugs, I’m not drinking, I’m completely clean right now! That was just something that I wanted to do.”
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The singer also opened up about some of the bumps in the road she has experienced during her sobriety journey, including during the coronavirus pandemic when she relapsed on alcohol and started drinking.
“Haven’t done drugs in years,” she told Rolling Stone for the magazine’s January 2021 cover story. “Honestly, I never try to, again, be a fortune-teller. I try not to be naive. Things f***ing happen. But from sitting here with you right now, I would say it would have to be a cold day in hell for me to relapse on drugs.”
If you or someone you know is struggling with mental health and/or substance use, you are not alone. Seek immediate intervention — call 911 for medical attention; 988 for the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline; or 1-800-662-HELP for the SAMHSA (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration) National Helpline. Carrying naloxone (Narcan) can help reverse an opioid overdose.
