Miley Cyrus is getting candid about her past drug use, including a time when she says she hid tens of thousands of dollars worth of drug purchases from her accountant.
The Grammy-winning “Flowers” singer, 32, confirmed that “drugs were the biggest cost” of her recording her 2015 self-funded album, Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz.
“To hide those from my accountant, we called them ‘vintage clothes,’” she revealed on the June 6 episode of The Ringer’s Every Single Album podcast. “So she would get these checks for thousands of dollars worth of vintage clothes.”
Eventually, her accountant began to wonder where those clothes actually were.
“Every time she saw me, she’d be like, ‘Where’s that, like, $15,000 original John Lennon T-shirt that you bought?’” Cyrus recalled. “I was like, ‘Oh, it’s upstairs. … We just really want to protect it. It’s really delicate.’”
Cyrus admitted to buying “a lot of ‘vintage clothes’ that year,” saying she’s grateful she “survived” that period of her life.
“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,” she said.
The Disney Channel alum has since been vocal about getting sober — first from marijuana in 2017 and then alcohol three years later. She credits sobriety with having “changed [her] entire life.”
Cyrus is currently riding the wave of her May 30 album release, Something Beautiful. At the Tribeca Festival, Cyrus debuted the accompanying visual album.
—Jami Ganz, New York Daily News (TNS)
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